How image watermarking works: Computerphile explains Adobe's Trustmark

Computerphile · youtube · 2026-10-22

Dr Mike Pound uses Adobe's Trustmark to explain how image watermarks embed information into pictures. The video covers steganography vs watermarking and metadata limits, why LSB schemes fail, deep-learning encoder-decoder watermark architectures, code detection and reading, robustness training with augmentations, Trustmark's 256px base for arbitrary sizes, a live Python demo with stress tests (compression, resizing, cropping, color shifts), adversarial watermark-copying attacks, and AI provenance/digital signatures.

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