Submission date: February 12, 2025
Reviews and acceptance decision: March 5, 2025
Workshop: April 27, 2025 (Hall 4 #1)
Morning Session
09:00 – 09:10: Introduction and opening remarks
09:10 - 09:40: Scott Aaronson - TBD (Invited Talk)
09:45 - 10:15: Furong Huang - Erasing the Invisible: Riding the WAVES of Watermark Robustness (Invited Talk)
10:15 - 10:30: Coffee Break
10:30 - 10:45: Towards A Correct Usage of Cryptography in Semantic Watermarks for Diffusion Models (Oral)
10:45 - 11:00: Optimizing Adaptive Attacks against Content Watermarks for Language Models (Oral)
11:00 - 12:00: Poster Session A
12:00 - 13:30: Break (Lunch)
Afternoon Session
13:30 - 14:30: Poster Session B
14:30 - 15:00: Melissa Omino - Watermarking in GenAI: The Case of African Voices (Invited Talk)
15:00 - 15:15: Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:45: John Collomosse - Building Safe and Fair Generative AI with Content Provenance (Invited Talk)
15:45 - 16:15: Mauro Barni - Dos and Don'ts: Lessons Learned from 30 Years in the Field (Invited Talk)
16:15 - 17:15: Panel Discussion: Zohaib Ahmed, Adina Yakefu, Lee-Wan-Sie, John Collomosse
The Role of AI Watermarking Researchers in Providing Actionable Policy Decisions
17:15 - 17:30: Closing Remarks
(subject to change)
Watermarking is crucial in the age of generative AI, yet often gets lost in broader conversations around AI safety and security. Our workshop brings together experts from academia, industry, policy, and different communities to discuss advancements and challenges in watermarking technologies.
Algorithmic advances and new applications of watermarking
Adversarial robustness and security-related topics
Evaluation and benchmarks
Industry requirements
Policy, regulations and ethics landscapes
Join us to facilitate the exchange of ideas, collaborative problem-solving, and build on a foundation of research that will span across years!
Please visit the Call for papers page for detailed guidelines.
If you are interested in contributing to our paper review process, please complete the sign-up form. We will publicly acknowledge our program committee members. Your expertise and time dedicated to this effort are greatly appreciated and crucial to the success of the workshop.
Professor at the University of Siena, with over 20 years of experience in digital watermarking.
Professor at the University of Surrey, and Scientist at Adobe where he leads efforts on content provenance.
Chair of Computer Science at The University of Texas, on leave at OpenAI.
Professor at University of Maryland, with influential work in AI security & privacy.
CEO of Resemble AI, an AI voice cloning startup with a focus on consent and transparency.
Director at the Center for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT).
Executive assistant at Hugging Face, working on growing the ML community in China.
Director of AI at the Singapore Info-Communications Media Development Authority
Research Scientist at Meta FAIR
EU Policy Lead & Applied Researcher at Hugging Face
Director of Research at Inria Rennes, with 25 years of experience watermarking
Research Scientist at Meta FAIR
Researcher at the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent System
PhD student at the SRI Lab at ETH Zurich