Detection Limits and Statistical Separability of Tree Ring Watermarks in Rectified Flow-based Text-to-Image Generation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03850v1
• Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:24:23 GMT
• Title: Detection Limits and Statistical Separability of Tree Ring Watermarks in Rectified Flow-based Text-to-Image Generation Models
• Authors: Ved Umrajkar, Aakash Kumar Singh,
• Abstract summary: Tree-Ring Watermarking is a significant technique for authenticating AI-generated images.<n>We evaluate and compare the detection and separability of watermarks between SD 2.1 and FLUX.1-dev models.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Tree-Ring Watermarking is a significant technique for authenticating AI-generated images. However, its effectiveness in rectified flow-based models remains unexplored, particularly given the inherent challenges of these models with noise latent inversion. Through extensive experimentation, we evaluated and compared the detection and separability of watermarks between SD 2.1 and FLUX.1-dev models. By analyzing various text guidance configurations and augmentation attacks, we demonstrate how inversion limitations affect both watermark recovery and the statistical separation between watermarked and unwatermarked images. Our findings provide valuable insights into the current limitations of Tree-Ring Watermarking in the current SOTA models and highlight the critical need for improved inversion methods to achieve reliable watermark detection and separability. The official implementation, dataset release and all experimental results are available at this \href{https://github.com/dsgiitr/flux-watermarking}{\textbf{link}}.

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