Invisible Backdoor Triggers in Image Editing Model via Deep Watermarking

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in both image generation and editing. However, recent studies have revealed their vulnerability to backdoor attacks, in which specific patterns embedded in the input can manipulate the model's behavior. Most existing research in this area has proposed attack frameworks focused on the image generation pipeline, leaving backdoor attacks in image editing relatively unexplored. Among the few studies targeting image editing, most utilize visible triggers, which are impractical because they introduce noticeable alterations to the input image before editing. In this paper, we propose a novel attack framework that embeds invisible triggers into the image editing process via poisoned training data. We leverage off-the-shelf deep watermarking models to encode imperceptible watermarks as backdoor triggers. Our goal is to make the model produce the predefined backdoor target when it receives watermarked inputs, while editing clean images normally according to the given prompt. With extensive experiments across different watermarking models, the proposed method achieves promising attack success rates. In addition, the analysis results of the watermark characteristics in term of backdoor attack further support the effectiveness of our approach. The code is available at:https://github.com/aiiu-lab/BackdoorImageEditing

StyleDiT: A Unified Framework for Diverse Child and Partner Faces Synthesis with Style Latent Diffusion Transformer

Kinship face synthesis is a challenging problem due to the scarcity and low quality of the available kinship data. Existing methods often struggle to generate descendants with both high diversity and fidelity while precisely controlling facial attributes such as age and gender. To address these issues, we propose the Style Latent Diffusion Transformer (StyleDiT), a novel framework that integrates the strengths of StyleGAN with the diffusion model to generate high-quality and diverse kinship faces. In this framework, the rich facial priors of StyleGAN enable fine-grained attribute control, while our conditional diffusion model is used to sample a StyleGAN latent aligned with the kinship relationship of conditioning images by utilizing the advantage of modeling complex kinship relationship distribution. StyleGAN then handles latent decoding for final face generation. Additionally, we introduce the Relational Trait Guidance (RTG) mechanism, enabling independent control of influencing conditions, such as each parent's facial image. RTG also enables a fine-grained adjustment between the diversity and fidelity in synthesized faces. Furthermore, we extend the application to an unexplored domain: predicting a partner's facial images using a child's image and one parent's image within the same framework. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our StyleDiT outperforms existing methods by striking an excellent balance between generating diverse and high-fidelity kinship faces.