Program

ArtSec 2026: Workshop on Artwork Security and Provenance in the Age of AI

May 21, 2026 San Francisco, CA

Co-located with the 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2026)

Keynote Speakers

Ning Zhang

Ning Zhang

Washington University in St. Louis

Ben Y. Zhao

Ben Y. Zhao

University of Chicago

Panelists

Sarah Andersen

Sarah Andersen

American Cartoonist and Illustrator

Karla Ortiz

Karla Ortiz

Art Director

Howie Singer

Howie Singer

New York University

Ning Zhang

Ning Zhang

Washington University in St. Louis

Ben Y. Zhao

Ben Y. Zhao

University of Chicago

Emily Wenger

Emily Wenger

Moderator

Duke University

Workshop Program

Morning Session (9:00 – 10:30 AM)

9:00 – 9:05 — Opening Remarks
9:05 – 10:00 — Keynote Speech "AI for Creators: Advancing Creativity with Protection"

Speaker: Yuki Mitsufuji

10:00 – 10:30 — Paper Session 1: Attacks & Auditing

Chair: Fnu Suya

Mental Damage: Caption Poisoning Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Text-to-Music Generation

Yizhu Wen (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Shuhao Zhang (Clemson University), Nan Zhang (Michigan State University), Long Cheng (Clemson University), Hanqing Guo (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)

Auditing Training Data in Generative Music Models via Black-Box Membership Inference

Yi Chen Liu (University of Georgia), Jiawei Yu (University of Georgia), Kexin Cao (Independent Researcher), Syed Irfan Ali Meerza (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Trishika Movva (University of Georgia), Jian Liu (University of Georgia)

10:30 – 11:00 AM — Break

Morning Session (cont.) (11:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

11:00 – 12:00 — Keynote Speech "Research on the Front Lines: between academia and advocacy"

Speaker: Ben Y. Zhao

12:00 – 1:15 PM — Lunch

Afternoon Session (1:15 – 2:45 PM)

1:15 – 2:15 — Panel Discussion

Theme: Beyond the Ivory Tower: Academic-Artist Collaborations to Build a Safer World

Panelists: Sarah Andersen, Karla Ortiz, Howie Singer, Ning Zhang, Ben Y. Zhao
Moderator: Emily Wenger

2:15 – 2:45 — Post Panel Discussion
2:45 – 3:15 PM — Break

Afternoon Session (cont.) (3:15 – 4:45 PM)

3:15 – 4:10 — Keynote Speech "Securing Human Expression in Voice: A Systems Perspective on Proactive AI Defense"

Speaker: Ning Zhang

4:10 – 4:40 — Paper Session 2: Watermarking & Robustness

Chair: Jian Liu

FLEXMark: Evaluating Watermark Robustness and Attribution Reliability Under Redistribution and Adaptive AI Laundering

Natalia Ellen (National College of Ireland), Furqan Rustam (University College Dublin), Anca Delia Jurcut (University College Dublin)

RD-PHash: A Robustness Enhancement for DCT-Based Perceptual Hashing against Adversarial Bit-Flipping Attacks

Nan Jiang (National University of Singapore), Bangjie Sun (National University of Singapore), Nayoung Kim (KAIST), Terence Sim (National University of Singapore), Jun Han (KAIST)

4:40-4:45 — Closing Remarks