Technical talk by James Hynard
This session, recorded at MonteVIDEO Tech Day during Summer Camp 2026, features Castlabs’ James Hynard exploring how open-source testing frameworks can bring greater transparency and objectivity to forensic watermarking. He breaks down the fundamentals of watermarking, why it plays a critical role in content protection, and the limitations of current testing approaches, which are often costly, inflexible, and driven by vendors.
The talk highlights the need for more adaptable, open tools that enable teams to evaluate watermark robustness against real-world conditions, compare solutions on equal footing, and make decisions based on their specific workflows rather than fixed benchmarks.
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