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Watermark detector

A YOLO watermark model served as a sidecar with NudeNet's /infer API, for curator's crop and watermark checks.

Used by

Package	What for	Reads
argus-curator (opens in new tab)	`crops.detect`: finds watermarks so they can be cropped out or the image dropped.	`ARGUS_CURATOR_WATERMARK_URL`, `ARGUS_CURATOR_WATERMARK_TIMEOUT`, `ARGUS_CURATOR_WATERMARK_WORKERS`

Official guides

joycaption-watermark-detection (YOLO11x) (opens in new tab)
watermarks_yolov8 (opens in new tab): a lighter alternative

Minimal setup

Serve a YOLO watermark model, either the YOLO11x from the JoyCaption space or the lighter YOLOv8 one, behind a sidecar that speaks NudeNet's POST /infer.
Set ARGUS_CURATOR_WATERMARK_URL to its origin. The _TIMEOUT and _WORKERS variables tune it.

See finding watermarks (opens in new tab) for what curator does with the boxes.