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Research paperImage, Video & 3D Generation1 source · Oct 6, 2026

Rethinking Visual Provenance: Detection and Watermarking Across Direct Visual Generation and LLM-Driven Code Rendering

We develop a production-centered framework that compares detection and watermarking across both routes.

Key points

  • AI systems create images and videos with image/video generation models or by writing code and graphics descriptions that are then rendered.
  • An explicit verification specification distinguishes passive inference, message recovery, and authenticated provenance.
  • We organize image, video, source-code, and rendering-aware watermarks by production stage.
  • We examine the different requirements of generated images and video, plots and SVG, programmable video, and agent-composed workflows.

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