Beyond Detection: Uncertainty, Quality, and Multi-Source Reasoning for Operational Multimedia Forensics Call for Papers

We are pleased to invite submissions to the 
Beyond Detection: Uncertainty, Quality, and Multi-Source Reasoning for Operational Multimedia Forensics
satellite workshop 
at ICIP 2026.

This workshop addresses the challenges of trustworthy, operationally
robust multimedia forensics systems. The solutions to be presented
should go beyond simple fake/not-fake decisions by estimating
confidence, handling real-world data distortions, fusing evidence from
multiple sources, and evaluating methods under realistic unseen
conditions.

The workshop will be co-located with ICIP 2026 in Tampere, Finland.

    Date: September 13 or 17, 2026 (To be specified by ICIP organizers)
    Venue: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
    Location: Tampere, Finland
    Website: https://zoi.utia.cas.cz/icip2026

 Topics of Interest

The workshop invites contributions in areas including, but not limited to:

    Forensic AI for Real-World Deployment: Architectures, workflows,
    and human-in-the-loop systems designed for practice.

    Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Methods supporting risk-aware,
    evidence-based conclusions rather than binary outputs.

    Calibrated Uncertainty: Utilizing conformal prediction and proper
    scoring rules.

    Multi-Source Evidence Fusion: Graph-based models for heterogeneous
    data.

    Operational Robustness: Performance under real forensic
    constraints and unseen generators.

    Reliability-Centric Evaluation: Open challenge on synthetic image
    detection.

    Explainability and Interpretability for Forensic AI: Methods that
    make model outputs understandable and defensible in operational
    use.

Featured Competition: The workshop hosts the Synthetic Image Detection
and Localization Challenge, sponsored by the ULRI Digital Safety
Research Institute (DSRI). High-performing teams may be eligible for
follow-on research funding. More info on the
webpage. https://zoi.utia.cas.cz/icip2026

Important Dates

    Paper Submission Deadline: May 13, 2026
    Notification of Acceptance: June 10, 2026
    Camera-Ready Deadline: July 1, 2026
    Author Registration Deadline: July 16, 2026

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts submitted to satellite workshops will undergo a
double-anonymous peer review. Accepted papers will be included in the
IEEE Xplore Digital Library as part of the ICIP 2026 Satellite
Workshop Proceedings. Submitted manuscripts must conform to the
conference's style, format, and length requirements (see Author
Kit).

Accepted contributions must be presented at the workshop as posters or talks.

Contact: For questions, please contact zitova@utia.cas.cz.

On behalf of the workshop organizers:

    Barbara Zitova (UTIA CAS, Prague)
    Matthew C. Stamm (Drexel University, USA)
    Babak Mahdian (UTIA CAS, Prague)
    Adam Novozamsky (UTIA CAS, Prague)

 

We look forward to seeing you in Tampere!