DRIFT is a black‑box attack that removes diffusion watermarks by deflecting the generative trajectory. It combines partial forward diffusion with stochastic reverse resampling to limit the source information available to a fixed‑depth recovery pipeline and to explore alternative noise‑driven paths. Across nine watermarks, DRIFT achieves 98–100% success while preserving image quality, without requiring secret keys, verifier internals, or per‑image gradient optimization.
By Rui Bao, Zheng Gao, Xiaoyu Li, Xiaoyan Feng, Yang Song, Jiaojiao Jiang
arXiv:2608. 10166v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Digital watermarking has emerged as a critical technique for provenance and copyright attribution in AI-generated imagery, yet its robustness against realistic, model-agnostic removal attacks remains poorly explored.
By Jie Cao, Qi Li, Zelin Zhang, Xiaodong Wu, Lingshuang Liu, Xiangman Li, Jianbing Ni
arXiv:2610.02010v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Invisible watermarking has become a central tool for tracing AI-generated images, but its robustness against adaptive removal attacks remains an open...
By Kirill Aistov, Khaled Abud, Irina Serzhenko, Egor Kovalev, Aleksey Yakushev, Aleksandr Akimenkov, Dmitry Obydenkov, Yury Markin, Sergey Lavrushkin, Dmitriy Vatolin, Anastasia Antsiferova
arXiv:2607. 26723v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inversion-based watermarking is a promising approach to authenticate diffusion-generated images, yet practical use is bottlenecked by inversion that is both slow and error-prone.
By Jindong Yang, Han Fang, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu, Kejiang Chen
Digital image watermarking is increasingly critical in media contexts, as emerging regulations and industry practices require marking AI-generated content and ensuring traceable sources to prevent man...
arXiv:2609.40031v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Digital image watermarking is increasingly critical in media contexts, as emerging regulations and industry practices require marking AI-generated co...
By Khaled Abud, Aleksey Yakushev, Aleksandr Akimenkov, Irina Serzhenko, Kirill Aistov, Egor Kovalev, Dmitry Obydenkov, Sergey Lavrushkin, Anastasia Antsiferova, Dmitriy Vatolin, Yury Markin, Kirill Lukianov