SpreadMark: Robust Image Watermarking via Spread-Spectrum Embedding

arXiv:2608.03165 · cs.CR, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-08-18 · Read on arXiv

Wei Song, Yuxin Cao, Zhenchang Xing, Liming Zhu, Jin Song Dong, Yulei Sui, Jingling Xue

cs.CR, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-08-18

Updated: 2026-08-20

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Decoder — 45× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 27× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Accuracy — 20× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generative Model — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Augmentation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 3× in this paper
• Diffusion Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Coherence — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In European Conference on Computer Vision — 2× in this paper
• In International Conference on Learning Representations — 2× in this paper
• International Conference on Computer Vision — 2× in this paper
• Latent Space — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Localization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Composition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Diffusion-Based Image Editing for Breaking Robust Watermarks
• DeMark: A Query-Free Black-Box Attack on Deepfake Watermarking Defenses
• TrustMark: Universal Watermarking for Arbitrary Resolution Images
• Fast, Secure, and High-Capacity Image Watermarking with Autoencoded Text Vectors
• Breaking Semantic-Aware Watermarks via LLM-Guided Coherence-Preserving Semantic Injection
• Robust Invisible Video Watermarking with Attention
• SemBind: Binding Diffusion Watermarks to Semantics Against Black-Box Forgery Attacks

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