Call for Papers

Scope and Topics

Generative AI brings both opportunities and risks for creative content. While AI enables new forms of creativity, it also introduces threats such as unauthorized training on copyrighted works, loss of provenance, and trust erosion in human creativity. The ArtSec workshop provides a venue to discuss the security, privacy, provenance, and trust challenges raised by AI's interaction with human-created works.

We solicit original contributions from the security, AI, legal, and creative communities on topics including (but not limited to):

Security and Privacy for Creative Data

• Perturbation-based defenses against training and editing (e.g., cloaking, style shifting)
• Robust watermarking, fingerprinting, and content authentication
• Attacks on provenance and watermarking systems, and their defenses
• Unlearning, opt-out, and rights enforcement mechanisms

Provenance, Attribution, and Trust

• Provenance tracking for AI-generated vs. human-generated content
• Detection of unauthorized model use or synthetic mimicry of specific artists
• Privacy-preserving auditing, usage transparency, and accountability
• Hybrid legal-technical solutions and policy-aware system design

Measurement, Datasets, and Benchmarks

• Evaluation protocols for robustness and perceptual quality
• Open datasets and reproducible pipelines spanning music, images, and video
• Red-teaming methodologies for testing protections against realistic adversaries

Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives and Case Studies

• Experiences from music, visual arts, film, publishing, and gaming ecosystems
• Ethics and economics of AI content repurposing
• Collaboration models between artists, researchers, and platforms

Systems, Standards, and Deployment

• Architectures for scalable content protection and provenance
• Standards for interoperable watermarking and attribution
• Industry adoption pathways and lessons learned from deployed systems

Submission Guidelines

Please submit your papers via the HotCRP: https://hotcrp.artsec26.ieee-security.org/

Length Limits

• Full papers: up to 10 pages (excluding references and appendices)
• Short papers: up to 6 pages (excluding references and appendices)

To be considered, submissions must be received by the submission deadline (see Important Dates).

Paper Format

Papers must be formatted for US Letter (not A4) paper size. The text must appear in a two-column layout, with columns no more than 9.5 in. tall and 3.5 in. wide. The text must be in Times font, 10-point or larger, with 11-point or larger line spacing. Authors are strongly recommended to use the latest IEEE "compsoc" conference proceedings templates.

• LaTeX submissions must use the following class and options:
  \documentclass[conference,compsoc]{IEEEtran}
• Overleaf submissions should use the IEEE Demo Template for Computer Society Conferences.
• For other layout software, please follow the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines.

IEEE S&P's criteria for anonymous submissions, conflicts of interest, ethical considerations, and competing interests (available at https://sp2026.ieee-security.org/cfpapers.html) apply.

Presentation Form

All accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop and included in the IEEE workshop proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop to present their work; otherwise, the paper will not be included in the proceedings.

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: February 13, 2026
• Notification to authors: March 20, 2026
• Camera-ready deadline: Early April, 2026
• Workshop Date: May 21, 2026

Contact

For questions, please contact: artsec26@sp.ieee-security.org