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

Yuki Mitsufuji

Yuki Mitsufuji

Lead Research Scientist and the VP of AI Research
Sony AI

Ben Y. Zhao

Ben Y. Zhao

Neubauer Professor
University of Chicago

Ning Zhang

Ning Zhang

Associate Professor
Washington University in St. Louis

Workshop Program

Morning Session (9:00 – 10:30 AM)

9:00 – 9:05 — Opening Remarks
9:05 – 10:00 — Keynote A
10:00 – 10:30 — Paper Session 1: Attacks & Auditing

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 – 11:55 — Keynote B
11:55 – 12:00 — Buffer
12:00 – 1:15 PM — Lunch

Afternoon Session (1:15 – 2:45 PM)

1:15 – 2:15 — Panel Discussion

Theme: TBD

2:15 – 2:45 — Paper Session 2: Watermarking & Robustness

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)

2:45 – 3:15 PM — Break

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

3:15 – 4:10 — Keynote C
4:10 – 4:25 — Paper Session 3: Vision & Generative Media

Artistic Camouflage: A Reversible Visual Cryptography Framework via Stable Diffusion

Yanyan Han (Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute), Suheng Wei (Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute), Kaili Dou (Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute)

4:25 – 4:55 — Open Discussion
4:55 – 5:00 — Closing Remarks