Welcome to the “3rd Workshop on New Trends in AI-Generated Media and Security (AIMS 2026).” This event brings together experts, researchers, and enthusiasts from diverse fields to explore the latest advancements and challenges in the world of AI-generated media. As AI continues to revolutionize media creation, its implications for security, ethics, and technology are profound and far-reaching. In this workshop, we delve into the cutting-edge of AI-generated content, encompassing deepfakes, synthetic media, and beyond. Our sessions will cover a range of topics, from the technical aspects of AI media generation and detection to the ethical and societal implications of this rapidly evolving technology. 

This event serves as a platform for sharing knowledge, fostering collaborations, and sparking discussions that will shape the future of AI in media and its impact on society. We look forward to engaging debates, insightful presentations, and groundbreaking ideas that will emerge from this gathering. Let’s embark on this journey to navigate and shape the future of AI-generated media and security together. This year, AIMS is collocated with the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026. It is supported by IEEE Technical Community on Multimedia Computing (IEEE TCMC), Incode Technologies Inc, and Machine Intelligence Research (MIR).

AI-Generated Media:

• Foundation Models, Diffusion Models, Large Multimodal Models (Agents) in Multimedia

• Decentralized Foundation Models from Small Data

• Media Generation with multimodal Large Language Models

• Causal and Mechanistic Explanations of Large Language Models

• Visual and Vision-Language Pre-training

• AI Reasoning

• AI for Social Media

• Generative AI for Medical and Well-being

Media Security:

• Fake News/Media Detection

• Media Forensics and Anti-Forensics

• Adversarial Attack and Defense in AI-generated Media

• DeepFakes/Misinformation/Disinformation

• Media/DNN Watermarking

• Reliability for Multimedia Applications and Systems

• The Security of Large AI Models

• Authenticity in Human-AI Generated Content

• Responsible AI for Multimedia

Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality full papers representing original results. Submissions will follow the CVPR 2026 format. Note that paper submissions must adhere to the CVPR 2026 paper submission style, format, length restrictions, and camera-ready timeline. The CMT online submission site is at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AIMS2026.

The accepted papers will be published as part of the CVPR proceedings and on IEEE Xplore.

The best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for consideration in the Springer journal---Machine Intelligence Research (IF 8.7, JCR Q1).

Student travel support will be provided for the top papers!

• 🗓️ Paper submission Deadline: March 2, 2026 (Pacific Time) March 21, 2026 (Pacific Time)

• 🗓️ Notification of Acceptance: March 19, 2026 March 25, 2026

• 🗓️ Author submission site opens: Monday, March 30, 2026

• 🗓️ Camera-ready papers and copyright forms due: Friday, April 10, 2026

Welcome to join the family of IEEE TCMC [Flyer].

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

If you are facing any issues or have any queries, you can reach out to us at: m2lab.purdue@gmail.com