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