Summary of Raw: a Robust and Agile Plug-and-play Watermark Framework For Ai-generated Images with Provable Guarantees, by Xun Xian et al.
RAW: A Robust and Agile Plug-and-Play Watermark Framework for AI-Generated Images with Provable Guarantees
by Xun Xian, Ganghua Wang, Xuan Bi, Jayanth Srinivasa, Ashish Kundu, Mingyi Hong, Jie Ding
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed RAW framework is a robust and agile watermark detection system for AI-generated images. Unlike traditional methods that embed fixed binary codes into latent representations, RAW introduces learnable watermarks directly into the original image data. The framework jointly trains a classifier with the watermark to detect its presence, making it compatible with various generative architectures and allowing on-the-fly watermark injection after training. State-of-the-art smoothing techniques provide provable guarantees against false positive rates under certain adversarial attacks. Experimental results show substantial performance enhancements compared to existing approaches in detecting watermarked images under adversarial attacks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A team of researchers created a new way to detect special marks, called watermarks, in artificial intelligence-generated pictures. These watermarks help protect the original images and prevent people from using them without permission. The new system, called RAW, is better than previous methods at finding these watermarks, even when someone tries to remove them. The team tested their method with many different types of images and found that it worked well while keeping the quality of the images the same. |
