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