NeurIPS 2024 Competition
Erasing the Invisible:
A Stress-Test Challenge for Image Watermarks

Welcome!

Welcome to "Erasing the Invisible" at NeurIPS 2024—a cutting-edge competition designed to rigorously stress-test image watermarks. This competition is divided into two tracks: Black Box Track and Beige Box Track. It aims to validate the robustness of image watermarks under varying visibility conditions and attacker knowledge. Competitors will attempt to remove invisible watermarks while maintaining the quality of the images. Evaluations will be based on two criteria: the effectiveness of watermark removal and the preservation of image quality. This competition is inspired by the WAVES benchmark.

Prizes: There is a $7000 prize pool!

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Organizers

(* indicates Lead Organizers)
Mucong Ding
Mucong Ding*
UMD
Tahseen Rabbani
Tahseen Rabbani*
Yale
Bang An
Bang An*
UMD
Chenghao Deng
Chenghao Deng*
UMD
Souradip Chakraborty
Souradip Chakraborty
UMD
Anirudh Satheesh
Anirudh Satheesh
UMD
Mehrdad Saberi
Mehrdad Saberi
UMD
Yuxin Wen
Yuxin Wen
UMD
Kyle Sang
Kyle Sang
UMD
Aakriti Agrawal
Aakriti Agrawal
UMD
Xuandong Zhao
Xuandong Zhao
UC Berkeley
Mo Zhou
Mo Zhou
JHU
Mary-Anne Hartley
Mary-Anne Hartley
Yale
Lei Li
Lei Li
CMU
Yu-Xiang Wang
Yu-Xiang Wang
UCSD
Vishal M. Patel
Vishal M. Patel
JHU
Soheil Feizi
Soheil Feizi
UMD
Tom Goldstein
Tom Goldstein*
UMD
Furong Huang
Furong Huang*
UMD
@inproceedings{
an2024waves,
title={{WAVES}: Benchmarking the Robustness of Image Watermarks},
author={Bang An and Mucong Ding and Tahseen Rabbani and Aakriti Agrawal and Yuancheng Xu and Chenghao Deng and Sicheng Zhu and Abdirisak Mohamed and Yuxin Wen and Tom Goldstein and Furong Huang},
booktitle={Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=URtUYfC3GA}
}

Acknowledgement

We would like to express our sincere thanks to everyone who helped in developing and setting up the competition. We will formally acknowledge their support after the completion of the competition's submission phase.