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NAWE: Digital Watermarking with Neural-Assisted Watermark Extraction

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Roman Chaban, Vitaliy Kinakh, Lilian Rouzaire, Slava Voloshynovskiy

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Submitted 22 Sep 2026

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The authors' main claim Comparisons with TrustMark, SSL Watermarking, PixelSeal, and WAM show NAWE's lowest geometric and photometric class BER and strong message recovery, while filtering and noise remain limitations consistent with the non-adaptive selection of the watermark extractor.

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CitationLilian Rouzaire, Roman Chaban, Slava Voloshynovskiy, Vitaliy Kinakh. "NAWE: Digital Watermarking with Neural-Assisted Watermark Extraction." arXiv:2609.25972 (2026). https://pith.science/paper/LW53TSL6
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NAWE (Neural-Assisted Watermark Extraction) combines an explicit signal-processing watermarking construction with a pretrained neural host predictor. A periodic, perceptually masked watermark carrier provides synchronization, Polar coding supplies redundancy, and denoising followed by subtraction extracts the embedded watermark. The denoiser remains frozen, without watermark-specific training. A one-factor-at-a-time study compares Wiener, BM3D, DRUNet, and GS-DRUNet host estimators. Comparisons with TrustMark, SSL Watermarking, PixelSeal, and WAM show NAWE's lowest geometric and photometric class BER and strong message recovery, while filtering and noise remain limitations consistent with the non-adaptive selection of the watermark extractor. The comparison retains the systems' different payloads and coding.

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s0 NAWE (Neural-Assisted Watermark Extraction) combines an explicit signal-processing watermarking construction with a pretrained neural host predictor. method 0.52 0.68 0.06 asserted 1.00
s1 A periodic, perceptually masked watermark carrier provides synchronization, Polar coding supplies redundancy, and denoising followed by subtraction extracts the embedded watermark. method 1.00 0.66 0.05 asserted 1.00
s2 The denoiser remains frozen, without watermark-specific training. method 0.95 0.84 0.04 asserted 1.00
s3 A one-factor-at-a-time study compares Wiener, BM3D, DRUNet, and GS-DRUNet host estimators. method 0.84 0.92 0.03 asserted 0.95
s4 Comparisons with TrustMark, SSL Watermarking, PixelSeal, and WAM show NAWE's lowest geometric and photometric class BER and strong message recovery, while filtering and noise remain limitations consistent with the non-adaptive selection of the watermark extractor. result 1.00 0.92 0.75 asserted 0.97
s5 The comparison retains the systems' different payloads and coding. method 0.60 0.75 0.04 asserted 1.00

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NAWE (Neural-Assisted Watermark Extraction) combines an explicit signal-processing watermarking construction with a pretrained neural host predictor. A periodic, perceptually masked watermark carrier provides synchronization, Polar coding supplies redundancy, and denoising followed by subtraction extracts the embedded watermark. The denoiser remains frozen, without watermark-specific training. A one-factor-at-a-time study compares Wiener, BM3D, DRUNet, and GS-DRUNet host estimators. Comparisons with TrustMark, SSL Watermarking, PixelSeal, and WAM show NAWE's lowest geometric and photometric class BER and strong message recovery, while filtering and noise remain limitations consistent with the non-adaptive selection of the watermark extractor. The comparison retains the systems' different payloads and coding.

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