Xiao Chen

Disentangle and Drop: Robust Universal Removal of Image Watermarks via Reconstructive Grayscale Residual Decomposition

Invisible image watermarks are commonly evaluated against benign postprocessing operations such as compression, resizing, blur, and color changes. These tests leave out a different threat: a learned remover that preserves semantic image content while discarding residual evidence that carries the payload. We propose Dis...