arXiv:2607.26729cs.CV2026-07

提出新水印框架,显著提升图像在几何变形下的鲁棒性。

CASIAL: Geometric Distortion Robust Image Watermarking

论文配图:CASIAL: Geometric Distortion Robust Image Watermarking
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  • 通过自适应扩散策略将水印信息分布到整幅图像
  • 在六种几何变换下优于11个基线方法,误码率更低
  • 适合对鲁棒性要求高的版权保护与防篡改场景

基于深度学习的水印技术在非几何失真下表现良好,但在几何变换(如缩放、旋转)下仍受限。这类变换引发两类核心失效:区域移除(如裁剪)导致信息丢失,以及错位(如旋转)破坏解码同步。本文提出CASIAL框架,包含覆盖图像感知的消息扩散(CAS)策略与不变性对齐学习(IAL)模块。CAS将水印比特紧密耦合于图像特征,并自适应分布至全图,增强像素级信息容量和抗区域移除能力;IAL利用空间注意力捕捉跨像素依赖,将受扰特征对齐至共享几何不变表示空间,缓解错位问题。在六种挑战性几何变换下,CASIAL显著优于11个先前基线,同时保持高视觉质量。在六种信号失真与四种光度变换下也表现良好。值得注意的是,仅在白盒失真下训练的CASIAL,对未见过的黑盒失真也展现出强迁移鲁棒性。大量实验验证了该方法的广泛鲁棒性与优异视觉质量。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Deep learning-based watermarking has shown strong robustness against non-geometric distortions, yet its performance under geometric transformations remains limited. Such transformations induce two fundamental failure modes: region removal, such as cropping or masking, which eliminates the information carried by removed pixels, and desynchronization, such as scaling or rotation, which misaligns pixel positions and disrupts decoding. We argue that achieving geometric robustness requires two essential properties: (1) global spread of the watermark message, ensuring resilience even when large regions are removed, and (2) geometry-invariant representations, enabling decoding to remain synchronized despite spatial transformations. Building on these insights, we propose CASIAL, a geometric distortion-robust watermarking framework with cover image-aware message spreading (CAS) strategy and invariance alignment learning (IAL) module. CAS tightly couples watermark bits with cover image features and distributes them adaptively across the entire image, enhancing per-pixel information capacity and robustness to region removal. IAL leverages spatial attention to capture cross-pixel dependencies and align perturbed features into a shared geometry-invariant representation space, mitigating failures due to desynchronization. Across six challenging geometric transformations, CASIAL achieves substantially stronger robustness than eleven prior baselines while preserving high visual quality. It also maintains competitive performance under six signal distortions and four photometric transformations. Notably, although trained only with white-box distortions, CASIAL also exhibits strong transfer robustness to unseen black-box distortions. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate the broad robustness and superior visual quality of our method.

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