Call for Papers

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

Camera-Ready Submission

TBA

ACM Notice

The accepted papers will be made available in the ACM Digital Library. Participating authors must accept the following ACM statements:

1. "By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy."

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Submission Instructions

The submitted technical papers must be written in English. Short papers must present 4-6 pages (including references), while full papers must present 10-12 pages (including references). Submissions must follow the new ACM conference template ("sigconf" style) and must be provided in PDF format. Submissions must be anonymized for double-blind review and not overlap with published or simultaneously submitted work. Submissions not meeting these requirements will risk being desk rejected, without any consideration of their merits. 

Initial paper submission will be handled by EasyChair. Please observe the important dates.

Camera-ready submission will be handled by The ACM Production System (TAPS).

Important update on ACM’s new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences!

Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 2,600 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 76%).

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