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EditGuard: Versatile Image Watermarking for Tamper Localization and Copyright Protection

arXiv 2312.08883 ↗First posted 12 Dec 2023cs.CVcited by 109

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Abstract (arXiv)

In the era where AI-generated content (AIGC) models can produce stunning and lifelike images, the lingering shadow of unauthorized reproductions and malicious tampering poses imminent threats to copyright integrity and information security. Current image watermarking methods, while widely accepted for safeguarding visual content, can only protect copyright and ensure traceability. They fall short in localizing increasingly realistic image tampering, potentially leading to trust crises, privacy violations, and legal disputes. To solve this challenge, we propose an innovative proactive forensics framework EditGuard, to unify copyright protection and tamper-agnostic localization, especially for AIGC-based editing methods. It can offer a meticulous embedding of imperceptible watermarks and precise decoding of tampered areas and copyright information. Leveraging our observed fragility and locality of image-into-image steganography, the realization of EditGuard can be converted into a united image-bit steganography issue, thus completely decoupling the training process from the tampering types. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our EditGuard balances the tamper localization accuracy, copyright recovery precision, and generalizability to various AIGC-based tampering methods, especially for image forgery that is difficult for the naked eye to detect. The project page is available at https://xuanyuzhang21.github.io/project/editguard/.

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  1. 2024FakeShield: Explainable Image Forgery Detection and Localization via Multi-modal Large Language Modelscited by 111
  2. 2024Robust Watermarking Using Generative Priors Against Image Editing: From Benchmarking to Advancescited by 105
  3. 2024Detecting Multimedia Generated by Large AI Models: A Surveycited by 73
  4. 2024Generalizing Deepfake Video Detection with Plug-and-Play: Video-Level Blending and Spatiotemporal Adapter Tuningcited by 57
  5. 2024360DVD: Controllable Panorama Video Generation with 360-Degree Video Diffusion Modelcited by 56
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  7. 2024Erasing Undesirable Concepts in Diffusion Models with Adversarial Preservationcited by 48
  8. 2024OmniGuard: Hybrid Manipulation Localization via Augmented Versatile Deep Image Watermarkingcited by 35
  9. 2025VideoShield: Regulating Diffusion-based Video Generation Models via Watermarkingcited by 32
  10. 2024GS-Hider: Hiding Messages into 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 26
  11. 2025Hybrid-Level Instruction Injection for Video Token Compression in Multi-modal Large Language Modelscited by 19
  12. 2024Geometry Cloak: Preventing TGS-based 3D Reconstruction from Copyrighted Imagescited by 15
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  1. 2025REALEDIT: Reddit Edits As a Large-scale Empirical Dataset for Image Transformationscited by 15
  2. 2025SecureGS: Boosting the Security and Fidelity of 3D Gaussian Splatting Steganographycited by 14
  3. 2025Semantic Watermarking Reinvented: Enhancing Robustness and Generation Quality with Fourier Integritycited by 14
  4. 2025Pixel Seal: Adversarial-only training for invisible image and video watermarkingcited by 14
  5. 2025SEAL: Semantic Aware Image Watermarkingcited by 13
  6. 2024Are Watermarks Bugs for Deepfake Detectors? Rethinking Proactive Forensicscited by 12
  7. 2024A Survey of Defenses Against AI-Generated Visual Media: Detection,Disruption, and Authenticationcited by 12
  8. 2025Survey on AI-Generated Media Detection: From Non-MLLM to MLLMcited by 12
  9. 2025Transferable Black-Box One-Shot Forging of Watermarks via Image Preference Modelscited by 10
  10. 2024Iteratively Prompting Multimodal LLMs to Reproduce Natural and AI-Generated Imagescited by 9
  11. 2025Mask Image Watermarkingcited by 9
  12. 2025UniShield: An Adaptive Multi-Agent Framework for Unified Forgery Image Detection and Localizationcited by 9
  13. 2024LVMark: Robust Watermark for Latent Video Diffusion Modelscited by 8
  14. 2024U Can't Gen This? A Survey of Intellectual Property Protection Methods for Data in Generative AIcited by 7
  15. 2025TAG-WM: Tamper-Aware Generative Image Watermarking via Diffusion Inversion Sensitivitycited by 7
  16. 2025DiffMark: Diffusion-based Robust Watermark Against Deepfakescited by 7
  17. 2025Geometric Image Synchronization with Deep Watermarkingcited by 7
  18. 2024ResVR: Joint Rescaling and Viewport Rendering of Omnidirectional Imagescited by 6
  19. 2024Evolving from Single-modal to Multi-modal Facial Deepfake Detection: Progress and Challengescited by 6
  20. 2025GS-Marker: Generalizable and Robust Watermarking for 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 6
  21. 2025WaveGuard: Robust Deepfake Detection and Source Tracing via Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet and Graph Neural Networkscited by 5
  22. 2025NoisePrints: Distortion-Free Watermarks for Authorship in Private Diffusion Modelscited by 5
  23. 2025BlurGuard: A Simple Approach for Robustifying Image Protection Against AI-Powered Editingcited by 5
  24. 2024Diffusion-Based Hierarchical Image Steganographycited by 4
  25. 2024FreezeAsGuard: Mitigating Illegal Adaptation of Diffusion Models via Selective Tensor Freezingcited by 4
  26. 2025GaussianSeal: Rooting Adaptive Watermarks for 3D Gaussian Generation Modelcited by 4
  27. 2025FractalForensics: Proactive Deepfake Detection and Localization via Fractal Watermarkscited by 4
  28. 2025AnimeDL-2M: Million-Scale AI-Generated Anime Image Detection and Localization in Diffusion Eracited by 4
  29. 2025Towards Generalized Proactive Defense against Face Swapping with Contour-Hybrid Watermarkcited by 4
  30. 2025StableGuard: Towards Unified Copyright Protection and Tamper Localization in Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 4
  31. 2025ImageSentinel: Protecting Visual Datasets from Unauthorized Retrieval-Augmented Image Generationcited by 4
  32. 2024Protect-Your-IP: Scalable Source-Tracing and Attribution against Personalized Generationcited by 3
  33. 2025InpDiffusion: Image Inpainting Localization via Conditional Diffusion Modelscited by 3
  34. 2025ConcealGS: Concealing Invisible Copyright Information in 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 3
  35. 2025Uncovering and Mitigating Destructive Multi-Embedding Attacks in Deepfake Proactive Forensicscited by 3
  36. 2025GS-Checker: Tampering Localization for 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 3
  37. 2025RobustSora: De-Watermarked Benchmark for Robust AI-Generated Video Detectioncited by 3
  38. 2025VizDefender: Unmasking Visualization Tampering through Proactive Localization and Intent Inferencecited by 3

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