Presenting Watermarking technology at ICLR 2025

Team members from the Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) presented their cutting edge research on media provenance and watermarking at ICLR 2025, the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations held on 24 - 28th April in Singapore.

Team members from the Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE) presented their cutting edge research on media provenance and watermarking at ICLR 2025, the Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations held on 24 – 28th April in Singapore.

John Collomosse presenting DECaDE research at ICLR 2025.

ICLR is globally renowned for presenting research on all aspects of deep learning used in the fields of artificial intelligence, statistics and data science. With two papers accepted and presented at the GenAI Watermarking workshop, the conference offered DECaDE researchers an opportunity to share MultiNeRF; a multi-watermarking framework they’ve developed to secure ownership and attribution in 3D content and a paper on Watermark co-existence and optimal ways to ensemble them.

DECaDe Director John Collomosse delivered a talk on Building Safe and Fair Generative AI with Content Provenance, with reference to his research in partnership with Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative. The team has combined emerging open standards on media provenance (C2PA; the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) with watermarking to help users attach durable information on the ownership and authenticity of digital media.  The technologies presented include a way to watermark 3D models, and a way to encourage multiple watermarks from different providers to co-exist in an image – further encouraging interoperable open standards for provenance.

John was also invited to present at a panel discussing the interaction of policy and watermarking, with a view to emerging legislation on AI labelling and how provenance markers such as watermarks can help creators better indicate opt-in/opt-out preference for the use of their work in AI.

Yash Kulthe, DECaDE PhD student who’s paper MultiNeRF: Multiple watermark embedding for neural radiance fields was presented, commented,

The papers presented at the conference can be read here;

MultiNeRF: Multiple Watermark Embedding for Neural Radiance FieldsYash Kultheet al.

On the Coexistence and Ensembling of WatermarksAleksandar Petrov et al.

For queries please contact: decade@surrey.ac.uk

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