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COVER: Codec-Robust Video Watermarking with Generative Video Priors

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

Video watermarking underpins copyright protection and provenance for generated media, yet almost every video is compressed by a codec before it is stored or shared. A codec discards precisely the perceptually redundant components that most watermarks rely on, so the payload is often lost even when the marked video looked flawless beforehand. Existing methods leave this path open, since they treat compression as one entry in a generic list of distortions, while a real codec is not differentiable and cannot enter gradient-based training. We present COVER, the first learned video watermark built

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