Comment by Jach

Various previous attempts at invisible/imperceptible/mostly imperceptible watermarking have been trivially defeated, this attempt claims to be more robust to various kinds of edits. (From the paper: various geometric edits like rotations or crops, various valuemetric edits like blurs or brightness changes, and various splicing edits like cutting parts of the image into a new one or inpainting.) Invisible watermarking is useful for tracing origins of content. That might be copyright information, or AI service information, or photoshop information, or unique ID information to trace leakers of video game demos / films, or (until the local hardware key is extracted) a form of proof that an image came from a particular camera...