The Second Workshop on

Synthetic & Adversarial ForEnsics
(SAFE)

Innovate. Connect. Transform.

Join us at CVPR 2026

June 3rd or 4th, 2026 (TBD)

at Denver, Colorado

Submit Paper

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 methods for generative models, including realistic 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
  • Generative and foundation model explanation and interpretation
  • Adversarial attack and mitigation techniques for distilled models
  • Ethical, societal, and legal implications of synthetic and adversarial media

We will accept full papers (6 to 8 pages, excluding references) as oral presentations and will be included in the CVPR 2026 Workshop Proceedings using the appropriate CVPR 2026 formatting guidelines. Short papers and extended abstracts (2 to 4 pages, excluding references) will be accepted as oral presentations but will not be archival.

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

Important dates

  • Submissions Open: January 15, 2026
  • Submissions Deadline: March 13, 2026 at 11:59pm AoE (conversion tool)
  • Notification Acceptance: April 3, 2026
  • Camera-ready submissions: April 11, 2026 at 11:59pm AoE (conversion tool)

Featured Speakers

Photo of Justin Norman
Justin Norman
University of California Berkeley
Photo of Prof. Xiaoming Liu
Prof. Xiaoming Liu
Michigan State University
Photo of Prof. Alina Oprea
Prof. Alina Oprea
Northeastern University
Photo of Dr. Alexander Robey
Dr. Alexander Robey
Carnegie Mellon University

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
Ms. Nicole Meng
Tufts University
Mr. Maty Bohacek
Stanford University