Exploring Weaknesses of Generative Image Watermarks against Latent Frequency Masking

arXiv:2610.02010 · cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.MM · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.MM

Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-01

Code: https://github.com/alvitrioliks/lfm

Terminology

• Latent Frequency Masking — 21× in this paper
• Robustness — 17× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 13× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 7× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Model — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 6× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Latent Representation — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generative AI — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Activation Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generative Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reconstruction Error — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Security and Privacy — 2× in this paper
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Attention Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Process — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Robust Invisible Video Watermarking with Attention
• Video Seal: Open and Efficient Video Watermarking
• Pixel Seal: Adversarial-only training for invisible image and video watermarking
• Geometric Image Synchronization with Deep Watermarking
• Tree-Ring Watermarks: Fingerprints for Diffusion Images that are Invisible and Robust
• METR: Image Watermarking with Large Number of Unique Messages
• WAVES: Benchmarking the Robustness of Image Watermarks
• Steganalysis on Digital Watermarking: Is Your Defense Truly Impervious?
• A Baseline Method for Removing Invisible Image Watermarks using Deep Image Prior
• Stable Signature is Unstable: Removing Image Watermark from Diffusion Models
• How Smooth Is Attention?
• DiffusionDB: A Large-scale Prompt Gallery Dataset for Text-to-Image Generative Models
• Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context

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