arXiv Computer Vision

Erase the Mark, Preserve the Motion: Temporally Consistent Removal of Video Watermarks

PoseRegen is a new framework for removing video watermarks while maintaining temporal consistency and motion fidelity. It first applies a shared viewpoint transformation to break watermark patterns, then reconstructs the sequence with a pose‑conditioned video model and Flow Matching supervision to preserve identity and background. The method also includes a Pose‑Conditioned Motion Consistency Adapter to keep body‑part trajectories stable, achieving near‑random watermark bit accuracy and outperforming baselines on motion metrics.

arXiv AI
Oct 9

4D-GSW: Kinematic-Aware Spatio-Temporal Consistent Watermarking for 4D Gaussian Splatting

4D-GSW is a kinematic-aware watermarking framework for 4D Gaussian Splatting that embeds robust copyright information while preserving high spatio-temporal consistency. It introduces a Spatio-Temporal Curvature metric to identify dynamic instants and gates watermark gradient injection, and uses a joint HMM-MRF energy minimization model to synchronize watermark phases across temporal trajectories and spatial neighborhoods. An anisotropic gradient routing mechanism ensures watermark embedding remains decoupled from photometric reconstruction fidelity, achieving superior robustness and rendering quality in experiments.

By Sifan Zhou, Hang Zhang, Yuhang Wang, Ming Li
arXiv AI
Sep 16

What Breaks Local Watermarks? A Robustness Benchmark for Local Invisible Image Watermarking

The paper introduces the first systematic robustness benchmark for local invisible image watermarking, evaluating five methods across 55 image transformations that include signal distortions, coordinate misalignments, indirect local edits, and direct watermark edits. Results show that all methods are vulnerable to some transformation, with MaskWM achieving the best payload recovery and localization but at the cost of image quality. The study highlights that robustness varies strongly with transformation type, especially noting that geometric misalignment and generative local edits can completely disrupt payload recovery.

By Kai Yao, Bence Szil\'agyi, Sebesty\'en Kamp, M\'at\'e Po\'or, M\'at\'e Szilveszter, Matyas K. Zsoldos, Marc Juarez
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

COVER: Codec-Robust Video Watermarking with Generative Video Priors

COVER is a new video watermarking method that targets codec compression as its primary design goal. It embeds the watermark payload in the latent space of a frozen generative video autoencoder and recovers it by re‑encoding the received video into the same latent space. Using a differentiable codec surrogate bank, COVER achieves high bit accuracy across multiple codecs while keeping marked videos visually close to the originals.

By Yuxin Cao, Hao Yang, Ziqi Ding, Jie Hao, Wei Song
arXiv AI
Sep 3

ContextAnyone: Context-Aware Diffusion for Character-Consistent Text-to-Video Generation

ContextAnyone is a context‑aware diffusion framework that treats a reference image as an explicitly preserved appearance anchor rather than a simple conditioning signal. By jointly reconstructing the reference image and generating the target video within a shared diffusion transformer, it provides direct supervision for maintaining identity and fine‑grained appearance throughout denoising. The method introduces asymmetric information flow and Gap‑RoPE positional representations to keep the reference stable while allowing selective access by video tokens, and demonstrates improved identity and appearance consistency on an OpenVid‑HD benchmark.

By Ziyang Mai, Yu-Wing Tai
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 23

Stream4D: Streaming 4D Reconstruction with Training-free Motion Decoupling via Causal KV-Cache Attention

Stream4D is a training‑free, motion‑decoupled streaming 4D reconstruction framework that can be integrated into causal Transformer backbones such as StreamVGGT and Stream3R. It exploits the causal attention’s KV cache to aggregate temporal motion cues, fuses them with depth priors, and produces precise dynamic masks that separate static and dynamic regions. A soft key masking scheme then suppresses dynamic interference in attention, improving camera pose estimation and reducing ghosting in long sequences.

By Wei Zhang, Ying Feng, Mengtong Wu, Shiqiang Gong, Huaqi Zhang, Qi Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 23

WorldForge V2: Eliciting Camera-Trajectory Alignment in Video Diffusion Models

WorldForge V2 introduces a training‑free guidance framework that refines video diffusion outputs along a target camera path using warped references and optical‑flow‑identified latent channels for selective guidance. It employs a dual‑path strategy to correct artifacts, a v‑cache to reduce refinement cost, and Trajectory LoRA adapters trained in two stages to focus on trajectory‑responsive network blocks. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art generation quality and trajectory accuracy with minimal training data, enabling reliable camera control across unseen scenes.

By Chenxi Song, Yanming Yang, Tong Zhao, Ruibo Li, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Chi Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 22

CausalAlign: Causal Alignment of Video Generation Models for Consistent Ego-Motion

CausalAlign is a new framework for diffusion‑based video generation models that tackles the problem of drifting camera ego‑motion over long horizons. It first diagnoses how ego‑motion is represented and changes during denoising, revealing a rise‑and‑fall pattern. Then it strengthens ego‑motion by aligning internal representations to a 3D foundation model in a delta‑token space that captures inter‑frame changes, improving motion accuracy, geometric consistency, and temporal smoothness while preserving visual quality.

By Kai Zhu, Yintianrun Zhang, Shuwei Jiang, Ruolin Zuo, Yixin Chen, Duomin Wang, Miao Liu, Yin Li, Daquan Zhou, Yiwu Zhong
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 7

Engram-E2VID: Reference-Based Event-to-Video Reconstruction via Generative Activation of Appearance Engrams

arXiv:2608. 05728v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reference-based event-to-video reconstruction aims to recover target RGB frames from a reference frame and the event stream captured over the reference-to-target interval.

By Feiyu Ji, Xiang Li, Hao Ma, Tianxiang Huang, Qingxin Lu, Mengqi Ji, Lei Han, Xiaokang Yang, Xiaoyun Yuan