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Victor KuznetsovandClaude Opus 5 78d9e81d0f Collapse the duplicated detection path and lift the image pipeline into the library
The visible-mark path had grown three copies of one ladder sweep, four
near-identical `detect` arms, and four hand-rolled `footprint_mask` overrides;
mark knowledge sat in five hand-maintained tables across three modules; and the
flagship `all`/`batch` pipeline existed only in cli.py, written twice with
divergent behavior.

Detection is now one measurement. `_ladder_best` replaces the three sweeps,
`_scan`/`_verdict` replace the four arms, and the winning box travels to the
mask on `TextMarkDetection.match_box` instead of being swept a second time.
`detect_both` returns the strict and relaxed verdicts from one scan, which
halves the arbiter's perception cost (260 -> 130 matchTemplate calls on a 2048²
image, verdicts identical field for field). A per-mark demotion goes in the new
`_post_gate` hook, never in a `detect` override -- an override is invisible to
the single-pass path, which is how the RunningHub and Yuanbao anchor gates
briefly stopped applying.

Everything about a mark is now one registry row: product, label regime, the
platform sentence `identify` reports, the metadata signals that confirm it, and
its TC260 producer codes. `identify._VISIBLE_MARK_PLATFORM`, the signal mapping
in `api.visible_provenance`, `_PRODUCT_OF` and the pill veto are derived from
those rows.

`api.remove_all` / `api.remove_batch` are the library form of the `all` and
`batch` commands; the CLI is a wrapper that owns console text and exit codes.
Progress is a `(stage, detail)` pair of stable tokens, so the CLI keys its
wording off structure rather than parsing the library's prose back.

Two intentional behavior changes, both verified against a recorded 811-image
sample of detector verdicts, removal-mask hashes, arbiter decisions and
`identify` reports:

  * A TC260 label now relaxes the vendor its `ContentProducer` names rather than
    ByteDance's pair on every China-AIGC image. 333 of 811 samples move; on 185
    of them the previously relaxed pair was simply the wrong vendor, and the
    mark actually present never reached the relaxed gate its own
    `provenance_ncc_factor` was calibrated for.
  * A confident LibLibAI detection suppresses the Jimeng pill, like every other
    TC260 product's mark. It was registered alongside RunningHub and Baidu, both
    of which were added to the hand-written veto list, and it was not. 1 sample
    moves, and it is exactly the co-firing case.

Nothing else in that record changes: detector verdicts, mask hashes and
`identify` verdicts are byte-identical, and all 200 calibration constants are
untouched.

Also: `aigc_label` and friends plus `extract_c2pa_info` are memoized on
(path, mtime_ns, size) -- size because this package rewrites in place; the
native TC260 container readers route on magic bytes instead of the file
extension, so a mislabeled AVI or FLV is no longer invisible; `identify` shares
one pixel decode between the DWT-DCT and visible stages (TrustMark keeps its own
Pillow decode, which is not substitutable); and the six `stabilize_*` video
wrappers collapse into one policy table.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 22:49:45 -07:00

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"""Universal region eraser: remove anything inside user-given boxes via inpainting.
Position- and content-agnostic. You supply the rectangle(s); the eraser inpaints
whatever is inside, so it removes any visible logo / watermark / object regardless
of color, style, or location. Localization is the user's responsibility (pass the
box); restoration runs on CPU. This is the universal fallback for marks the
registered visible detectors do not cover.
Backends:
- ``cv2`` (default): ``cv2.inpaint`` (Telea / Navier-Stokes). Instant, no extra
dependencies, lower quality on large or textured regions.
- ``migan`` (optional, extra ``migan``): MI-GAN via onnxruntime
(``andraniksargsyan/migan``, MIT). CPU, ~28 MB model, ~0.19 s/call -- the
droplet-friendly tier: near-big-LaMa quality on small marks. Model downloaded
on first use. Like ``lama`` it crops a padded region around the mask before
inference (at native resolution -- MI-GAN takes arbitrary dims), so peak RAM is
bounded by the mark size (~0.6-0.9 GB) rather than scaling with the image, which
is what lets a memory-tight host run it on a large upload.
- ``lama`` (optional, extra ``lama``): big-LaMa via onnxruntime
(``Carve/LaMa-ONNX``, Apache-2.0). CPU, resolution-robust, best quality on
texture but ~200 MB model and ~4.7 GB peak RAM (too heavy for a small host).
The model is downloaded on first use and cached by huggingface_hub; it is
never bundled in this repo.
The per-backend RAM and wall-time figures above are reproduced by
``scripts/resource_ceilings.py`` (fresh subprocess per measurement, synthetic inputs).
Re-run it before changing any of them.
"""
# cv2/numpy boundary: cv2 ships no usable type info, so strict pyright cannot know
# its array element types. Relax the unknown-type rules for this file only; the
# public signatures are still annotated with NDArray[Any].
# pyright: reportUnknownMemberType=false, reportUnknownArgumentType=false, reportUnknownVariableType=false, reportUnknownParameterType=false, reportMissingTypeArgument=false, reportMissingTypeStubs=false, reportMissingImports=false, reportArgumentType=false, reportAssignmentType=false, reportReturnType=false, reportCallIssue=false, reportIndexIssue=false, reportOperatorIssue=false, reportOptionalMemberAccess=false, reportOptionalCall=false, reportOptionalSubscript=false, reportOptionalOperand=false, reportAttributeAccessIssue=false, reportPrivateImportUsage=false, reportPrivateUsage=false, reportInvalidTypeForm=false, reportConstantRedefinition=false, reportUnnecessaryComparison=false
from __future__ import annotations
import logging
from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Literal
import cv2
import numpy as np
if TYPE_CHECKING:
from numpy.typing import NDArray
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
Backend = Literal["cv2", "lama", "migan"]
_LAMA_REPO = "Carve/LaMa-ONNX"
_LAMA_FILE = "lama_fp32.onnx"
_MIGAN_REPO = "andraniksargsyan/migan"
_MIGAN_FILE = "migan.onnx"
# Cached onnxruntime sessions, keyed by backend name (loading is expensive; reuse
# across calls).
_sessions: dict[str, object] = {}
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class _LearnedBackend:
"""One optional model-backed fill: its human label and the module-level names of
its availability probe and erase function.
NAMES, not function objects: the fallback tests monkeypatch these by attribute on
the module, and a table holding bound references would not see the patch.
"""
label: str
available: str
erase: str
# The learned tier, best-quality first. `resolve_backend`'s preference order and the
# CLI's choices are separate literals by design (see FILL_BACKENDS below), but the
# availability probe, install hint and dispatch all read this one table.
_LEARNED_BACKENDS: dict[str, _LearnedBackend] = {
"lama": _LearnedBackend("LaMa", "lama_available", "erase_lama"),
"migan": _LearnedBackend("MI-GAN", "migan_available", "erase_migan"),
}
# Every fill backend this module can execute, plus the caller-facing `auto`. Kept as a
# literal tuple (not derived through an import) so `watermark_registry` and the CLI can
# state their choices without importing this cv2-loading module at their import time --
# a test pins the two in sync.
FILL_BACKENDS: tuple[str, ...] = ("auto", "cv2", "migan", "lama")
def boxes_to_mask(
shape: tuple[int, int],
boxes: list[tuple[int, int, int, int]],
dilate: int = 3,
) -> NDArray[Any]:
"""Build a uint8 mask (255 inside boxes) from ``(x, y, w, h)`` rectangles."""
h, w = shape
mask = np.zeros((h, w), np.uint8)
for x, y, bw, bh in boxes:
x0, y0 = max(0, x), max(0, y)
x1, y1 = min(w, x + bw), min(h, y + bh)
if x1 > x0 and y1 > y0:
mask[y0:y1, x0:x1] = 255
if dilate > 0 and mask.any():
k = cv2.getStructuringElement(cv2.MORPH_ELLIPSE, (2 * dilate + 1, 2 * dilate + 1))
mask = cv2.dilate(mask, k)
return mask
def _padded_crop_box(
mask: NDArray[Any], h: int, w: int, *, pad_frac: float, pad_min: int
) -> tuple[int, int, int, int] | None:
"""Bounding box of the set mask pixels, padded and clamped to the image.
Returns ``(x0, y0, x1, y1)`` or ``None`` when the mask is empty. Both learned
backends crop to this box so the ONNX working set is bounded by the mark size
rather than the whole image; ``pad_frac``/``pad_min`` tune how much surrounding
context the inpainter sees (LaMa then resizes the crop to its fixed square,
MI-GAN feeds it at native resolution).
"""
ys, xs = np.where(mask > 0)
if len(xs) == 0:
return None
pad = max(pad_min, int(pad_frac * max(xs.max() - xs.min() + 1, ys.max() - ys.min() + 1)))
x0, y0 = max(0, int(xs.min()) - pad), max(0, int(ys.min()) - pad)
x1, y1 = min(w, int(xs.max()) + 1 + pad), min(h, int(ys.max()) + 1 + pad)
return x0, y0, x1, y1
def erase_cv2(
image_bgr: NDArray[Any],
mask: NDArray[Any],
*,
method: Literal["telea", "ns"] = "telea",
radius: int = 6,
) -> NDArray[Any]:
"""Inpaint ``mask`` with classical cv2 inpainting (CPU, no extra deps).
Accepts 1-/3-channel BGR (passed straight to ``cv2.inpaint``) and 4-channel
BGRA: ``cv2.inpaint`` rejects 4 channels, so the alpha plane is split off,
the BGR is inpainted, and alpha is re-attached unchanged.
"""
flag = cv2.INPAINT_TELEA if method == "telea" else cv2.INPAINT_NS
if image_bgr.ndim == 3 and image_bgr.shape[2] == 4:
bgr = cv2.inpaint(image_bgr[:, :, :3], mask, radius, flag)
return np.dstack([bgr, image_bgr[:, :, 3]])
return cv2.inpaint(image_bgr, mask, radius, flag)
def lama_available() -> bool:
"""True when the optional LaMa-ONNX backend can run (onnxruntime installed)."""
from .optional_deps import module_available
return module_available("onnxruntime")
def _get_session(name: str, repo_id: str, filename: str, label: str) -> object:
"""Load (once) an ONNX session, downloading the model on first use."""
cached = _sessions.get(name)
if cached is not None:
return cached
import onnxruntime as ort
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
model_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=filename)
logger.info("Loading %s model: %s", label, model_path)
session = ort.InferenceSession(model_path, providers=["CPUExecutionProvider"])
_sessions[name] = session
return session
def _get_lama_session() -> object:
"""The big-LaMa ONNX session (kept as a named seam the tests monkeypatch)."""
return _get_session("lama", _LAMA_REPO, _LAMA_FILE, "LaMa-ONNX")
def erase_lama(image_bgr: NDArray[Any], mask: NDArray[Any]) -> NDArray[Any]:
"""Inpaint ``mask`` with big-LaMa via onnxruntime (CPU).
LaMa runs at a fixed square input size. To preserve full-image resolution we
crop a padded region around the mask, inpaint that crop at the model size,
and paste only the masked pixels back -- so untouched areas stay pixel-exact.
Like ``erase_cv2``, accepts 1-channel (grayscale) and 4-channel (BGRA) input:
LaMa runs on 3-channel BGR, so grayscale is promoted to BGR (result demoted
back) and a BGRA alpha plane is split off and re-attached unchanged. Without
this the ``cv2.cvtColor(..., BGR2RGB)`` below would crash on grayscale and
silently drop alpha on BGRA.
"""
if image_bgr.ndim == 2:
bgr = erase_lama(cv2.cvtColor(image_bgr, cv2.COLOR_GRAY2BGR), mask)
return cv2.cvtColor(bgr, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
if image_bgr.ndim == 3 and image_bgr.shape[2] == 4:
bgr = erase_lama(np.ascontiguousarray(image_bgr[:, :, :3]), mask)
return np.dstack([bgr, image_bgr[:, :, 3]])
session = _get_lama_session()
inp = session.get_inputs() # type: ignore[attr-defined]
img_name = inp[0].name
mask_name = inp[1].name
# Model declares a fixed square spatial size (e.g. 512); fall back to 512.
dims = inp[0].shape
size = next((d for d in reversed(dims) if isinstance(d, int) and d > 1), 512)
h, w = image_bgr.shape[:2]
box = _padded_crop_box(mask, h, w, pad_frac=0.4, pad_min=16)
if box is None:
return image_bgr.copy()
cx0, cy0, cx1, cy1 = box
crop = image_bgr[cy0:cy1, cx0:cx1]
crop_mask = mask[cy0:cy1, cx0:cx1]
ch, cw = crop.shape[:2]
# Resize crop + mask to the model size, normalize to [0,1] RGB CHW.
crop_rs = cv2.resize(crop, (size, size), interpolation=cv2.INTER_AREA)
mask_rs = cv2.resize(crop_mask, (size, size), interpolation=cv2.INTER_NEAREST)
img_in = cv2.cvtColor(crop_rs, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB).astype(np.float32) / 255.0
img_in = np.transpose(img_in, (2, 0, 1))[None] # (1,3,size,size)
mask_in = (mask_rs > 127).astype(np.float32)[None, None] # (1,1,size,size), 1=hole
out = session.run(None, {img_name: img_in, mask_name: mask_in})[0] # type: ignore[attr-defined]
out = np.asarray(out)[0] # (3,size,size)
out = np.transpose(out, (1, 2, 0))
if float(out.max()) <= 1.5: # model emits [0,1]; otherwise already [0,255]
out = out * 255.0
out = np.clip(out, 0, 255).astype(np.uint8)
out_bgr = cv2.cvtColor(out, cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR)
# Resize back to crop size and paste only the masked pixels.
out_crop = cv2.resize(out_bgr, (cw, ch), interpolation=cv2.INTER_LINEAR)
result = image_bgr.copy()
region = result[cy0:cy1, cx0:cx1]
paste = crop_mask > 127
region[paste] = out_crop[paste]
result[cy0:cy1, cx0:cx1] = region
return result
def migan_available() -> bool:
"""True when the optional MI-GAN backend can run (onnxruntime installed).
Deliberately a separate function from :func:`lama_available` even though both
currently reduce to the same onnxruntime probe: they are independent capability
questions and `auto` resolves them separately (see
``watermark_registry.preferred_inpaint_backend``).
"""
from .optional_deps import module_available
return module_available("onnxruntime")
def _get_migan_session() -> object:
"""The MI-GAN ONNX session (kept as a named seam the tests monkeypatch)."""
return _get_session("migan", _MIGAN_REPO, _MIGAN_FILE, "MI-GAN ONNX")
def erase_migan(image_bgr: NDArray[Any], mask: NDArray[Any]) -> NDArray[Any]:
"""Inpaint ``mask`` (255 = erase) with MI-GAN via onnxruntime (CPU).
Like ``erase_lama``, we crop a padded region around the mask, feed only that crop
to the ONNX model, and paste only the masked pixels back -- so untouched areas stay
pixel-exact and the ONNX working set is bounded by the MARK size, not the whole
image. MI-GAN accepts arbitrary spatial dims, so (unlike LaMa's fixed 512 square)
the crop is fed at NATIVE resolution -- no resize, so the mark is seen at full
scale. Feeding the whole frame instead made peak RAM scale with the image
(~0.6 GB at 4 MP up to ~2.4 GB at 25 MP, measured 2026-07); cropping holds the
inpaint working set roughly constant, so a memory-tight host (e.g. a 1-2 GB web
worker) can run MI-GAN on a 25 MP upload. Cropping does not degrade the fill:
a small mark only needs local context, and on real marks the cropped fill is on
par with -- sometimes cleaner than -- the full-frame fill (a tighter view gives
the GAN less room to hallucinate large background structure).
Mask polarity: the shipped ``andraniksargsyan/migan`` ONNX expects 0 = hole
(inpaint) / 255 = known (keep) -- the INVERSE of this package's 255-erase
convention -- so the mask is inverted before feeding the model. Feeding 255=hole
regenerates the whole frame into stripes.
Accepts 1-channel (grayscale) and 4-channel (BGRA) input.
"""
if image_bgr.ndim == 2:
bgr = erase_migan(cv2.cvtColor(image_bgr, cv2.COLOR_GRAY2BGR), mask)
return cv2.cvtColor(bgr, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
if image_bgr.ndim == 3 and image_bgr.shape[2] == 4:
bgr = erase_migan(np.ascontiguousarray(image_bgr[:, :, :3]), mask)
return np.dstack([bgr, image_bgr[:, :, 3]])
h, w = image_bgr.shape[:2]
# 2x the mark size (min 256 px) gives ample local context while a small corner
# mask keeps the crop small regardless of the full image resolution; the crop is
# clamped to the image, so a mark already spanning the frame degrades to the
# whole image (the old behavior) rather than erroring.
box = _padded_crop_box(mask, h, w, pad_frac=2.0, pad_min=256)
if box is None:
return image_bgr.copy()
cx0, cy0, cx1, cy1 = box
crop = np.ascontiguousarray(image_bgr[cy0:cy1, cx0:cx1])
crop_mask = mask[cy0:cy1, cx0:cx1]
ch, cw = crop.shape[:2]
session = _get_migan_session()
inp = session.get_inputs() # type: ignore[attr-defined]
img_name, mask_name = inp[0].name, inp[1].name
rgb = cv2.cvtColor(crop, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
img_in = np.transpose(rgb, (2, 0, 1))[None].astype(np.uint8) # (1,3,ch,cw)
# invert to MI-GAN polarity: 255 where KNOWN (keep), 0 where hole (erase)
known = (crop_mask <= 127).astype(np.uint8) * 255
mask_in = known[None, None] # (1,1,ch,cw)
out = session.run(None, {img_name: img_in, mask_name: mask_in})[0] # type: ignore[attr-defined]
res = np.transpose(np.asarray(out)[0], (1, 2, 0)).astype(np.uint8) # (ch',cw',3) RGB
if res.shape[:2] != (ch, cw):
res = cv2.resize(res, (cw, ch), interpolation=cv2.INTER_LINEAR)
out_bgr = cv2.cvtColor(res, cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR)
result = image_bgr.copy()
region = result[cy0:cy1, cx0:cx1]
hole = crop_mask > 127
region[hole] = out_bgr[hole]
result[cy0:cy1, cx0:cx1] = region
return result
def erase(
image_bgr: NDArray[Any],
*,
boxes: list[tuple[int, int, int, int]] | None = None,
mask: NDArray[Any] | None = None,
backend: Backend = "cv2",
dilate: int = 3,
cv2_method: Literal["telea", "ns"] = "telea",
cv2_radius: int = 6,
) -> NDArray[Any]:
"""Erase the given boxes (or mask) via the chosen inpainting backend.
Provide either ``boxes`` (list of ``(x, y, w, h)``) or a precomputed ``mask``
(uint8, 255 = erase). Returns an unmodified copy when nothing is selected.
"""
if image_bgr is None or image_bgr.size == 0:
return image_bgr
if mask is None:
if not boxes:
return image_bgr.copy()
mask = boxes_to_mask(image_bgr.shape[:2], boxes, dilate=dilate)
if not mask.any():
return image_bgr.copy()
learned = _LEARNED_BACKENDS.get(backend)
if learned is not None:
# Probe and erase by MODULE NAME, not by the captured function object: the
# availability probes and the erase functions are monkeypatched by name in the
# fallback tests, and a table of bound references would not see those patches.
if not globals()[learned.available]():
raise RuntimeError(
f"{learned.label} backend requires onnxruntime. "
f"Install the extra: pip install 'remove-ai-watermarks[{backend}]'"
)
return globals()[learned.erase](image_bgr, mask)
# cv2 and anything unrecognized (including "auto", which a library caller may pass
# straight through) degrade to the classical fill rather than raising.
return erase_cv2(image_bgr, mask, method=cv2_method, radius=cv2_radius)