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Frankly, if it can be detected, it can be removed. Makes sense no?
by TerrifiedMouse 3y ago
Frankly, if it can be detected, it can be removed. Makes sense no?
- FartyMcFarter 3y agoThink about watermarks in images. They can be removed, but it isn't easy to do so without making it obvious that the image is damaged / doctored. I imagine this is also the case for audio watermarks, but I'm not sure what the current state of the art is for watermark removal.
- greatpatton 3y agoYou can easily train a model to clean watermark from images.
- AnthonyMouse 3y ago> They can be removed, but it isn't easy to do so without making it obvious that the image is damaged / doctored. This is primarily because those watermarks damage the image. The information about the content of the image beneath the watermark is missing (replaced with the watermark) and would have to be extrapolated or fabricated to replace it. If the watermark isn't visible as part of the image then there is no missing piece to have to replace.
- KineticLensman 3y agoModern content-aware fill can very impressively replace dead areas of an image. E.g. in Photoshop 2024
- wubrr 3y agoThat may work where you have a visible visual watermark over part of an image, but not so much if steganography is used to add an invisible watermark.
- AnthonyMouse 3y agoThat isn't reconstructing what was lost. It was lost. Photoshop is machine learning taking a guess at what it was and putting that there. Sometimes it's pretty close. Sometimes it's not.
- FartyMcFarter 3y agoFor this application you don't need to reconstruct what was lost. You merely need to fill in some plausible content that is not identified as a particular watermark.
- TerrifiedMouse 3y agoWell at least we can damage the watermark such that it’s no longer machine readable. Since according to its marketing it’s invisible to listeners, our distortion of it should be equally invisible.