Re:Making Visible Watermarks More Effective
by lightbyte on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:11PM
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The algorithm is calculating the mean of the set of images, so putting 1000 copies of the same image will do absolutely nothing
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Re:Making Visible Watermarks More Effective
by colejohnson66 on Thursday August 17, 2017 @10:09PM
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Couldn't I run the result through Photoshop with some "Content Aware Fill" on the remaining spots?
Re:Making Visible Watermarks More Effective
by jotato on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:30PM
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i mean to remove the watermark on that specific image
Re:Making Visible Watermarks More Effective
by azdle on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:46PM
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The idea is to use a randomly-warped per-image watermark. So in theory, there's exactly one distinct watermark per image, so 1000 of the same image would have the same watermark.
Re:Making Visible Watermarks More Effective
by Kdparker on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:35PM
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It would be easy to change that hash by modifying one pixel per image (pick one that is unaffected by the watermark).
Re:Making Visible Watermarks More Effective
by azdle on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:42PM
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I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Change what hash? Of the image? I can't think of how that could help with removing a watermark.
Re:Making Visible Watermarks More Effective
by LukeShu on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:52PM
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jotato: I believe this can be defeated by tricking the watermarker in to generating 1000 distinct watermarks for the same image.
azdle: That won't work, because "there's exactly one distinct watermark per image, so 1000 of the same image would have the same watermark."
Kdparker: So subtle alter the image, to trick the watermarker in to thinking the image isn't the same, thus generating more distinct watermarks for the (effectively) same image.
Re:Making Visible Watermarks More Effective
by baddox on Thursday August 17, 2017 @10:45PM
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If you have the original image, the problem is already solved. If you don't have the original image, then all you will be doing is submitting the watermarked image and having the site apply another random watermark to it.