{"ID":5936981,"CreatedAt":"2026-07-07T03:14:33.014478982Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-07-09T15:38:11.834581458Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05261","arxiv_id":"2607.05261","title":"FlowMark: Mask-Guided Video Watermarking","abstract":"We present FlowMark, a video watermarking framework guided by automatically predicted object masks. In contrast to prior region-based approaches that require user-supplied mask guidance, FlowMark learns to identify optimal regions for watermark embedding through a dedicated Mask Predictor network. Our end-to-end trainable architecture combines region-aware encoding with noise-augmented training to ensure robustness against compression, geometric transformations, and content variation, while preserving high perceptual quality. Our content-adaptive masking keeps watermark signals coherent with natural video dynamics, effectively eliminating perceptual flicker. Beyond compression robustness, FlowMark maintains reliable watermark recovery under video-native temporal edits (e.g., frame swap, insertion, deletion, resampling, and interpolation) and real-world social media distribution pipelines (e.g., YouTube and Facebook re-encoding). Experimental results on both image and video datasets show that FlowMark reliably embeds $128$-bit messages with up to $50.08$ dB PSNR, offering strong performance for content provenance, temporal authenticity verification, and video integrity protection.","short_abstract":"We present FlowMark, a video watermarking framework guided by automatically predicted object masks. In contrast to prior region-based approaches that require user-supplied mask guidance, FlowMark learns to identify optimal regions for watermark embedding through a dedicated Mask Predictor network. Our end-to-end traina...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05261","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.05261v1","authors":"[\"Vishal Asnani\",\"Shruti Agarwal\",\"John Collomosse\"]","published":"2026-07-06T16:08:50Z","proceeding":"cs.CV","tasks":"[\"cs.CV\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}