Overview:

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and generative models has transformed the creation, manipulation, and dissemination of multimedia content across digital platforms. Technologies such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), diffusion models, and AI-driven synthesis tools have enabled the generation of highly realistic fake images, videos, speech, and biometric content commonly referred to as deepfakes. While these technologies offer significant benefits in entertainment, education, and media production, they also pose serious challenges related to misinformation, digital fraud, cybercrime, identity theft, and threats to public trust and national security.
The increasing sophistication of manipulated multimedia has created an urgent need for advanced multimedia forensic techniques capable of detecting tampering, authenticating digital content, tracing manipulation sources, and ensuring integrity in communication systems. Emerging challenges such as AI-generated fake identities, synthetic media attacks, adversarial manipulation, and real-time deepfake generation demand innovative solutions integrating artificial intelligence, signal processing, cybersecurity, and trustworthy communication frameworks.
This special session aims to bring together researchers, academicians, industry experts, and practitioners working in the areas of multimedia forensics, deepfake detection, AI security, and secure multimedia communication systems. The session will provide a platform to discuss state-of-the-art methodologies, emerging threats, practical applications, datasets, benchmarking techniques, and future research directions in trustworthy multimedia systems.
The session aligns strongly with the scope of ICISPC 2026 in areas including image processing, signal processing, artificial intelligence, communication security, biometrics, and intelligent systems.

 

Topics of Interest
The special session invites original and unpublished research contributions including, but not limited to, the following topics:

Deepfake Detection and Analysis
● Image deepfake detection
● Video deepfake detection
● Audio deepfake and voice cloning detection
● Cross-modal deepfake analysis
● GAN-generated content identification
● Diffusion model forensic analysis

Multimedia Forensics
● Image tampering detection
● Video forgery detection
● Digital image authentication
● Multimedia integrity verification
● Metadata and source analysis
●Copy-move and splicing detection
●Camera source identification

AI Security and Trustworthy Media
●Adversarial attacks on forensic systems
●Explainable AI for deepfake detection
●Robust and interpretable detection frameworks
●Trustworthy AI in multimedia systems
●AI-generated misinformation detection
●Secure AI models for media authentication

Biometrics and Identity Protection
●Face anti-spoofing
●Biometric forgery detection
●Synthetic identity detection
●Secure facial recognition systems
●Liveness detection techniques

Communication and Cybersecurity Applications
● Secure multimedia transmission
● Blockchain for multimedia authentication
● Privacy-preserving forensic systems
● Real-time detection systems
● Edge and cloud-based forensic frameworks
● Social media misinformation analysis

Emerging Research Directions
● Federated learning for forensic systems
● Lightweight deepfake detection for mobile devices
● Multilingual fake speech detection
● Human-AI collaborative verification systems
● Ethical and legal aspects of synthetic media
● Benchmark datasets and evaluation metrics

Relevance to ICISPC 2026
This special session directly supports the themes of ICISPC 2026 related to:
● Image and signal processing
● Artificial intelligence and machine learning
● Communication systems
● Information security
● Biometrics and intelligent systems
● Multimedia computing and applications

The session will strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration between multimedia processing researchers and cybersecurity experts while addressing one of the most critical challenges in digital communication ecosystems.

 

Submission System
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Proposed Session Organizers
Dr. Chaitali Choudhary Department of Computer Science and Engineering Bhilai Institute of Tehcnology, Durg Email: chaitali.choudhary@gmail.com
Dr. Pallavi Ranjan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Wollongong in Dubai, Dubai, UAE Email: PallaviRanjan@uowdubai.ac.ae
Dr. Manoj Kumar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Wollongong in Dubai, Dubai, UAE Email: wss.manojkumar@gmail.com, mkumar@uow.edu.au