Rethinking Deep Neural Network Ownership Verification: Embedding Passports to Defeat Ambiguity Attacks
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With the rapid development of deep neural networks (DNN), there emerges an urgent need to protect the trained DNN models from being illegally copied, redistributed, or abused without respecting the intellectual properties of legitimate owners. Following recent progresses along this line, we investigate a number of watermark-based DNN ownership verification methods in the face of ambiguity attacks, which aim to cast doubts on ownership verification by forging counterfeit watermarks. It is shown that ambiguity attacks pose serious challenges to existing DNN watermarking methods. As remedies to the above-mentioned loophole, this paper proposes novel passport-based DNN ownership verification schemes which are both robust to network modifications and resilient to ambiguity attacks. The gist of embedding digital passports is to design and train DNN models in a way such that, the DNN model performance of an original task will be significantly deteriorated due to forged passports. In other words genuine passports are not only verified by looking for predefined signatures, but also reasserted by the unyielding DNN model performances. Extensive experimental results justify the effectiveness of the proposed passport-based DNN ownership verification schemes. Code and models are available at https://github.com/kamwoh/DeepIPR
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