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GuardSplat: Efficient and Robust Watermarking for 3D Gaussian Splatting (arxiv.org)
1 point by PaulHoule on Dec 17, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: It hides a secret message inside the color-direction settings of each 3D blob in a scene, so the scene looks unchanged and the mark can't be deleted from the file. A vision-language model reads it back, beating earlier watermark tricks and training faster.

Abstract

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently created impressive 3D assets for various applications. However, considering security, capacity, invisibility, and training efficiency, the copyright of 3DGS assets is not well protected as existing watermarking methods are unsuited for its rendering pipeline. In this paper, we propose GuardSplat, an innovative and efficient framework for watermarking 3DGS assets. Specifically, 1) We propose a CLIP-guided pipeline for optimizing the message decoder with minimal costs. The key objective is to achieve high-accuracy extraction by leveraging CLIP's aligning capability and rich representations, demonstrating exceptional capacity and efficiency. 2) We tailor a Spherical-Harmonic-aware (SH-aware) Message Embedding module for 3DGS, seamlessly embedding messages into the SH features of each 3D Gaussian while preserving the original 3D structure. This enables watermarking 3DGS assets with minimal fidelity trade-offs and prevents malicious users from removing the watermarks from the model files, meeting the demands for invisibility and security. 3) We present an Anti-distortion Message Extraction module to improve robustness against various distortions. Experiments demonstrate that GuardSplat outperforms state-of-the-art and achieves fast optimization speed. Project page is at https://narcissusex.github.io/GuardSplat, and Code is at https://github.com/NarcissusEx/GuardSplat.

Zixuan Chen, Guangcong Wang, Jiahao Zhu, Jianhuang Lai, Xiaohua Xie
arXiv:2411.19895 · cs.CV, cs.CR · submitted Nov 29, 2024 · updated Mar 17, 2025
abstract · pdf · html · This paper is accepted by the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

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