The First Workshop on

Synthetic & Adversarial ForEnsics
(SAFE)

Innovate. Connect. Transform.

Join us at WACV 2026

March 6 or March 7, 2026 (TBD)

at JW Marriott Starpass in Tucson, Arizona

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Important dates

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  • Camera-ready submissions:
    Submissions Portal: OpenReview

Call for papers

Topics: Synthetic media detection, adversarial attacks, multimedia forensics, robustness, AI security, generative models

We invite original research contributions in (but not limited to) the following areas:

  • Generative image and video models (e.g., diffusion models, VLMs, GANs) and foundation models for synthetic media creation, manipulation, and robustness evaluation
  • Defensive fingerprinting and watermarking of generative models for source attribution
  • Red teaming techniques for generative models, including adversarial simulation environments
  • Provenance tracking and authenticity verification of digital media
  • Detection of synthetic media (e.g., AI-generated images, and video)
  • Adversarial attack, detection, and mitigation methods for visual data including video streams
  • Training data poisoning detection and mitigation for generative models
  • Joint modeling of synthetic media and adversarial threats
  • Benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation metrics for adversarial detection and robustness
  • Model explanation and interpretation
  • Ethical, societal, and legal implications of synthetic and adversarial media

We will accept regular papers (6 to 8 pages, excluding references & appendices) as oral presentations and will be included in the WACV Workshop Proceedings using the appropriate WACV formatting guidelines. Short papers and extended abstracts (2 to 4 pages, excluding references & appendices) will be accepted as poster presentations but will not be archival.

All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review to ensure fairness and impartiality in the evaluation process.

Featured Speakers

Photo of Prof. Matthew Stamm
Prof. Matthew Stamm
Drexel University
Photo of Prof. Yuan Hong
Prof. Yuan Hong
University of Connecticut
Photo of Maty Bohacek
Maty Bohacek
Stanford and Google DeepMind

Organizers

Dr. Josué Martínez Martínez
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Dr. Pooya Khorrami
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Ms. Danielle Sullivan
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Dr. Sheila Alemany Blanco
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Dr. Giselle Zeno
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Prof. David Harwath
The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Jonas Borgstrom
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Dr. Pedro Torres Carrasquillo
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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