AI RESEARCH

Are Watermarked Images Editable? SafeMark for Watermark-Preserving Text-Guided Image Editing

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2605.19511v1 Announce Type: new This paper investigates a fundamental yet underexplored question: can watermarked images remain editable without compromising watermark integrity? We propose SafeMark, a framework for watermark-preserving text-guided image manipulation that explicitly integrates watermark integrity into the editing process. Specifically, SafeMark adds a thresholded watermark-decoding loss directly to the diffusion editor's