TIACam: Text-Anchored Invariant Feature Learning with Auto-Augmentation for Camera-Robust Zero-Watermarking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18863v1
• Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:06:16 GMT
• Title: TIACam: Text-Anchored Invariant Feature Learning with Auto-Augmentation for Camera-Robust Zero-Watermarking
• Authors: Abdullah All Tanvir, Agnibh Dasgupta, Xin Zhong,
• Abstract summary: TIACam is a text-anchored invariant feature learning framework with auto-augmentation for camera-robust zero-watermarking.<n>Experiments on both synthetic and real-world camera captures demonstrate that TIACam achieves feature stability and watermark extraction accuracy.
• Score: 0.5429166905724048
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Camera recapture introduces complex optical degradations, such as perspective warping, illumination shifts, and Moiré interference, that remain challenging for deep watermarking systems. We present TIACam, a text-anchored invariant feature learning framework with auto-augmentation for camera-robust zero-watermarking. The method integrates three key innovations: (1) a learnable auto-augmentor that discovers camera-like distortions through differentiable geometric, photometric, and Moiré operators; (2) a text-anchored invariant feature learner that enforces semantic consistency via cross-modal adversarial alignment between image and text; and (3) a zero-watermarking head that binds binary messages in the invariant feature space without modifying image pixels. This unified formulation jointly optimizes invariance, semantic alignment, and watermark recoverability. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world camera captures demonstrate that TIACam achieves state-of-the-art feature stability and watermark extraction accuracy, establishing a principled bridge between multimodal invariance learning and physically robust zero-watermarking.

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