Call for Papers

On the behalf of Organizing Committee, it is our great pleasure
to invite you to the 18th IEEE International Workshop on
Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2026 that will be
held 7th-11th December in Sendai, Japan.
https://wifs2026.utt.fr/

WIFS is the primary annual event organized by the IEEE
Information Forensics and Security (IFS) Technical Committee
of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). It brings together
academic researchers, government agencies and industrial from
all disciplines associated with Information Forensics and
Security to discuss emerging challenges and project proposals,
exchange fresh ideas, share the state-of-the-art results and
technical expertise as well as describe novel methods and
innovative applications.

Prospective authors must submit their papers following the
IEEE conference template (available here) and are limited to
6 pages (including bibliography and figures).

Important note:
Deadline for paper submission: 15th July 2026
(see important dates for details)

Authors should devote special care that fonts, images, tables,
and figures comply with common standards and do not generate
problems for reviewers. Submissions not meeting the formatting
requirements risk rejection without consideration of their
merits.

Authors are invited to submit research papers presenting original
works and addressing Information Forensics and Security aspects
in a broad sense.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the use or
advances of the following methods:
Applied Cryptography
Biometrics
Blockchain Security
Information Theoretic Security
Data Privacy and Anonymity
Privacy and Surveillance
Hardware Security
Memory Forensics and Carving
Physical Layer Security
Network Security
Security, Privacy and Watermarking of Deep Learning
Deep Learning for Forensics
Digital Forensics and Analysis
Fake News and Misinformation
Multimedia Content Hash
Steganography, Steganalysis and Covert Communications
Watermarking, Data Hiding and Content Protection

Important Dates:
Special session proposal: April 8, 2026
Notification of SS Proposals: April 15, 2026
Regular and SS Paper Submission: July 15, 2026
Reviews Made Available to Authors: September 16, 2026
Author Rebuttal Deadline: September 23, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2026
Camera-Ready Paper Due: October 21, 2026
Demo and TIFS & SPL Paper Submission: October 21, 2026