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remove-ai-watermarks/scripts/video_synthid_sweep.py
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Victor KuznetsovandClaude Opus 5 8fe0b0110f Make the video SynthID operating point measurable and hard to move silently
The shipped profile was certified by one oracle row, but only noise_std was
pinned: long_side and fps -- two thirds of what the verifier was actually shown
-- could move with a green suite. The test now derives the pin from
data/evaluations/video-synthid-oracle.csv, so a default without a certifying row
fails.

The certified profile is a perturbation-to-signal ratio, not a bare noise_std.
sd-vae-ft-mse publishes no scaling_factor key, so 0.18215 comes from the
AutoencoderKL class default under an upper-unbounded diffusers pin. The loader
now gates that value, carries it on VideoVaeRuntime, and passes it into encode
and decode so the validated value is the applied value. video_synthid_sweep.py
loads through the same function: the harness producing the certified rows was
the one path exempt from the gate it exists to feed.

psnr_db is measured against the already-resized frame and before the encoder, so
it cannot see the downscale, the decimation, or the codec, and no in-loop metric
can. scripts/video_fidelity_probe.py scores the delivered file end to end,
streaming the way the engine does and sharing its frame-selection rule rather
than copying it -- a frame-count check cannot catch a rule that reorders frames
without changing how many.

The manifest gains source geometry, vae, track, verbatim verdict and session
fields. The two 2026-07-31 rows keep them empty: they were never recorded and
are not recoverable. Verdicts now have four states, because the verifier's
unclear reading logged as not_detected is the silent regression the manifest
exists to prevent.

docs/video-synthid-quality-research.md records the research behind this: the
noise axis is worth about 2 dB and is nearly exhausted, resolution is the real
prize but is an uncertified destruction axis rather than a free win, and every
proposed autoencoder swap was refuted. First local measurements included.

Verified: engine output is byte-identical before and after the refactor on a
locally built clip, at noise_std 0.00 and 0.15.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-05 11:17:38 -07:00

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"""Build oracle-gated video regeneration candidates for SynthID research.
This is a research harness, not a shipped removal command. Google does not
publish a local video SynthID decoder, so the script cannot label a candidate as
clean. It produces:
* a re-encode control with the same duration, frame rate, dimensions, and codec;
* one VAE-regenerated video per requested latent-noise level;
* paired fidelity and temporal-residual measurements;
* a CSV column for the external Gemini SynthID verdict.
The control is load-bearing. If it reads clean, the experiment is invalid:
resize, frame-rate conversion, or H.264 compression already silenced the oracle,
so a VAE candidate cannot be credited with removal.
The regeneration attack follows the general encode, perturb, reconstruct family
from WatermarkAttacker (NeurIPS 2024). A single spatial latent-noise sample is
shared by every frame. Independent per-frame noise creates avoidable flicker and
does not test the video-specific question.
Run with the project's GPU extra:
uv run --extra gpu python scripts/video_synthid_sweep.py input.mp4 -o out/
Then upload ``control.mp4`` and each candidate in separate Gemini chats, invoke
the built-in SynthID verifier (``@synthid``), and use the question printed by
the script. Do not follow the verdict with an adversarial prompt asking the chat
model to reinterpret the detector: that switches back to ordinary reasoning.
Only a control-positive, candidate-negative pair from the built-in verifier is
removal evidence.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import csv
import hashlib
import logging
from pathlib import Path
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
import click
import numpy as np
from remove_ai_watermarks.video_invisible import (
_decode_frame_latents,
_encode_frame_latents,
_fit_size,
_probe_video,
_shared_latent_noise,
build_temporal_reference,
encode_video_frames,
load_video_vae_runtime,
paired_psnr,
read_sampled_frames,
temporal_residual_ratio,
)
from remove_ai_watermarks.video_synthid import (
DEFAULT_VIDEO_SYNTHID_FPS,
DEFAULT_VIDEO_SYNTHID_LONG_SIDE,
DEFAULT_VIDEO_SYNTHID_VAE,
VIDEO_SYNTHID_LATENT_MULTIPLE,
VIDEO_SYNTHID_VERIFICATION_PROMPT,
)
if TYPE_CHECKING:
from collections.abc import Sequence
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
def _parse_noise_levels(values: str) -> tuple[float, ...]:
levels = tuple(float(value.strip()) for value in values.split(",") if value.strip())
if not levels:
raise click.BadParameter("At least one noise level is required")
if any(not 0.0 <= value <= 1.0 for value in levels):
raise click.BadParameter("Noise levels must be between 0 and 1")
return levels
def _sha256(path: Path) -> str:
digest = hashlib.sha256()
with path.open("rb") as stream:
for chunk in iter(lambda: stream.read(1024 * 1024), b""):
digest.update(chunk)
return digest.hexdigest()
def _write_manifest(output_dir: Path, rows: Sequence[dict[str, str]]) -> Path:
path = output_dir / "sweep.csv"
# Mirrors the tracked manifest's run-configuration fields (data/README.md) so a
# row carries into data/evaluations/video-synthid-oracle.csv without hand
# reconstruction. The two 2026-07-31 rows show the cost of not doing this: their
# geometry was never recorded and cannot be recovered from the row.
fieldnames = [
"variant",
"source_sha256",
"source_width",
"source_height",
"source_fps",
"duration_seconds",
"vae",
"noise_std",
"long_side",
"fps",
"seed",
"psnr_db",
"temporal_residual_ratio",
"file",
"sha256",
"synthid_oracle",
]
with path.open("w", newline="", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
writer = csv.DictWriter(stream, fieldnames=fieldnames)
writer.writeheader()
writer.writerows(rows)
return path
@click.command()
@click.argument("source", type=click.Path(exists=True, dir_okay=False, path_type=Path))
@click.option("-o", "--output-dir", required=True, type=click.Path(file_okay=False, path_type=Path))
@click.option("--noise-levels", default="0,0.05,0.1,0.15", show_default=True)
@click.option("--duration", type=click.FloatRange(min=0.1), default=2.0, show_default=True)
@click.option("--fps", type=click.FloatRange(min=1.0), default=DEFAULT_VIDEO_SYNTHID_FPS, show_default=True)
@click.option(
"--long-side",
type=click.IntRange(min=VIDEO_SYNTHID_LATENT_MULTIPLE),
default=DEFAULT_VIDEO_SYNTHID_LONG_SIDE,
show_default=True,
)
@click.option("--batch-size", type=click.IntRange(min=1), default=4, show_default=True)
@click.option("--seed", type=int, default=0, show_default=True)
@click.option("--model", default=DEFAULT_VIDEO_SYNTHID_VAE, show_default=True)
@click.option("--device", type=click.Choice(["auto", "cuda", "mps", "cpu"]), default="auto", show_default=True)
def main(
source: Path,
output_dir: Path,
noise_levels: str,
duration: float,
fps: float,
long_side: int,
batch_size: int,
seed: int,
model: str,
device: str,
) -> None:
"""Generate VAE video candidates from the prefix of SOURCE."""
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format="%(message)s")
levels = _parse_noise_levels(noise_levels)
width, height, source_fps = _probe_video(source)
size = _fit_size(width, height, long_side)
frames, effective_fps = read_sampled_frames(source, duration=duration, output_fps=fps, size=size)
run = {
"source_sha256": _sha256(source),
"source_width": str(width),
"source_height": str(height),
"source_fps": f"{source_fps:.4f}",
"duration_seconds": f"{duration:.4f}",
"vae": model,
"long_side": str(long_side),
"fps": f"{effective_fps:.4f}",
"seed": str(seed),
}
output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
control_path = output_dir / "control.mp4"
encode_video_frames(frames, source, control_path, fps=effective_fps)
rows: list[dict[str, str]] = [
{
**run,
"variant": "control",
"noise_std": "",
"psnr_db": "inf",
"temporal_residual_ratio": "1",
"file": control_path.name,
"sha256": _sha256(control_path),
"synthid_oracle": "",
}
]
# Load through the engine's own loader rather than repeating it here: the
# scaling-factor gate lives there, and the harness that produces the certified
# rows is the last place that should be exempt from it.
runtime = load_video_vae_runtime(model=model, device=device)
vae, resolved_device = runtime.vae, runtime.resolved_device
log.info("Encoding source frames")
latent_batches = _encode_frame_latents(
frames,
vae=vae,
device=resolved_device,
batch_size=batch_size,
scaling_factor=runtime.scaling_factor,
)
first_latents = latent_batches[0]
shared_noise = _shared_latent_noise(
first_latents.shape[1:],
seed=seed,
device=resolved_device,
dtype=first_latents.dtype,
)
reference_stack = np.stack(frames)
temporal_maps, temporal_baseline = build_temporal_reference(frames)
for level in levels:
log.info("Decoding latent noise %.4f", level)
regenerated = _decode_frame_latents(
latent_batches,
vae=vae,
noise_std=level,
shared_noise=shared_noise,
scaling_factor=runtime.scaling_factor,
)
output_path = output_dir / f"vae-noise-{level:.4f}.mp4"
encode_video_frames(
regenerated,
source,
output_path,
fps=effective_fps,
)
psnr = paired_psnr(reference_stack, np.stack(regenerated))
temporal_ratio = temporal_residual_ratio(regenerated, temporal_maps, temporal_baseline)
rows.append(
{
**run,
"variant": "vae",
"noise_std": f"{level:.4f}",
"psnr_db": f"{psnr:.4f}",
"temporal_residual_ratio": f"{temporal_ratio:.4f}",
"file": output_path.name,
"sha256": _sha256(output_path),
"synthid_oracle": "",
}
)
manifest = _write_manifest(output_dir, rows)
log.info("Wrote %s", manifest)
log.info(
"Verify control.mp4 first with Gemini's built-in SynthID verifier and this question: %s",
VIDEO_SYNTHID_VERIFICATION_PROMPT,
)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()