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

arXiv:2609.31693 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-18 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-18

Updated: 2026-09-18

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Sources

• Robust Invisible Video Watermarking with Attention
• SynthID-Image: Image watermarking at internet scale
• Stable Signature is Unstable: Removing Image Watermark from Diffusion Models
• Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition
• The information bottleneck method
• Deep Variational Information Bottleneck

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