For over two decades, the IH&MMSec workshop has built a strong reputation as a leading venue for research in Information Hiding and Multimedia Security. The 2026 edition invites original papers presenting advances in research as well as contributions from industry and government practice.

Submitted papers should address security and privacy aspects in relation to multimedia host signals (including images, audio, videos, texts, network traffic, etc.):

    Forensics and counter-forensics
    Steganography and steganalysis
    Covert and subliminal channels
    Watermarking and fingerprinting
    Networks and protocols
    Anonymity and privacy
    Biometrics
    Deep fake analysis

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the use or advances of the following methods:

    Information, coding, and complexity theory
    Game and decision theory
    Statistical modeling
    Machine learning and deep learning
    Adversarial machine learning
    DNN watermarking
    Deep learning security
    Secure Signal Processing
    Benchmarking and replication
    Obfuscation and privacy-preserving systems