Tree-Ring Watermarks - Fingerprints for Diffusion Images That Are Invisible and Robust

Explore a comprehensive video lecture on Tree-Ring Watermarks, an innovative technique for fingerprinting diffusion model outputs. Delve into the importance of watermarking AI-generated content, revisit the fundamentals of diffusion models, and understand the process of inverting them. Learn about the Tree-Ring Watermarking method, its effects, and experimental results. Examine the limitations of this approach and draw conclusions on its potential applications beyond watermarking. Gain insights into a technique that creates nearly undetectable, robust watermarks applied in the latent space at the beginning of the diffusion process, only recoverable by the model author.

- Introduction & Overview
- Why Watermarking?
- Diffusion Models Recap
- Inverting Diffusion Models
- Tree-Ring Watermarking
- Effects of Tree-Ring Watermarks
- Experimental Results
- Limitations
- Conclusion