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 7^th-11^th December in Sendai, Japan.

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: the deadline for paper submission is: 15^th 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

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.