Re:Bypassing Watermark Implementations
by mlhpdx on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @02:34PM
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On reading the title, my mind went to crafting image (or video) uploads that effectively “undo“ the water marking. That is, is there a way to alter content before uploading it so that when the watermark is applied it reverts the change and so what is displayed lacks the watermark. That would be crafty.
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You could, but then it becomes even easier to capture without the adornment, practically defeating the purpose.
You may be interested in watermarks that are invisible to the human eye but are visible to spectral analysis. You can even encode data within this invisible watermark, and learn a modification that is resistant to various image manipulations and even resistant to lossy compressions, in research that goes back to 2001 and has seen interesting improvements with advances in DNNs, Transformers and Diffusion.