Summary of The Brittleness Of Ai-generated Image Watermarking Techniques: Examining Their Robustness Against Visual Paraphrasing Attacks, by Niyar R Barman et al.
The Brittleness of AI-Generated Image Watermarking Techniques: Examining Their Robustness Against Visual Paraphrasing Attacks
by Niyar R Barman, Krish Sharma, Ashhar Aziz, Shashwat Bajpai, Shwetangshu Biswas, Vasu Sharma, Vinija Jain, Aman Chadha, Amit Sheth, Amitava Das
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The rapid advancement of text-to-image generation systems has raised concerns about their potential misuse. In response, companies have intensified efforts to implement watermarking techniques on AI-generated images. However, this paper argues that current image watermarking methods are fragile and susceptible to being circumvented through visual paraphrase attacks. The proposed visual paraphraser generates a caption for an image using KOSMOS-2 and passes the original image and caption to an image-to-image diffusion system. The resulting image is a visual paraphrase and is free of watermarks. Empirical findings demonstrate that visual paraphrase attacks can effectively remove watermarks from images. This paper provides a critical assessment, revealing the vulnerability of existing watermarking techniques to visual paraphrase attacks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding ways to stop people from misusing AI-generated images. Some companies are trying to add special marks or “watermarks” to these images to prevent them from being used in bad ways. But some researchers have found that these watermarks can be easily removed using a technique called visual paraphrase attacks. This means that the watermarks aren’t very effective at keeping people honest. The paper discusses how this is a problem and why we need to come up with better solutions. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Image generation
