Do Modern Post-Hoc Watermarking Methods Beat Broken-Arrows?

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Autori principali: Gesny, Enoal, Giboulot, Eva
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author Gesny, Enoal
Giboulot, Eva
author_facet Gesny, Enoal
Giboulot, Eva
contents With the rapid proliferation of generative models, such as diffusion models, digital watermarking has emerged as a crucial solution for identifying AI-generated images. Modern post-hoc watermarking schemes use neural networks to achieve an extremely low false-alarm rate while remaining robust to common image transformations. However, there is a lack of comparison between these modern methods and classic ones, particularly in real-world scenarios where robustness and security take precedence over achieving an extremely low false-alarm probability. In this paper, we propose a fair comparison of robustness and security between modern and classic post-hoc watermarking across various types of classic augmentations and recent sophisticated attacks. Our experiments show that, in a realistic scenario, classic watermarking outperforms modern techniques in terms of security while maintaining robustness.
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spellingShingle Do Modern Post-Hoc Watermarking Methods Beat Broken-Arrows?
Gesny, Enoal
Giboulot, Eva
Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
With the rapid proliferation of generative models, such as diffusion models, digital watermarking has emerged as a crucial solution for identifying AI-generated images. Modern post-hoc watermarking schemes use neural networks to achieve an extremely low false-alarm rate while remaining robust to common image transformations. However, there is a lack of comparison between these modern methods and classic ones, particularly in real-world scenarios where robustness and security take precedence over achieving an extremely low false-alarm probability. In this paper, we propose a fair comparison of robustness and security between modern and classic post-hoc watermarking across various types of classic augmentations and recent sophisticated attacks. Our experiments show that, in a realistic scenario, classic watermarking outperforms modern techniques in terms of security while maintaining robustness.
title Do Modern Post-Hoc Watermarking Methods Beat Broken-Arrows?
topic Cryptography and Security
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27135