Where
Onsite (location TBD)
Online Live (Zoom link TBD)
ECCV 2026 Workshop @ Malmö, Sweden
LifeGenIP Life-Cycle Intellectual Property Governance of Visual Generative Models
About the Workshop
Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled high-quality content generation across images, videos, and emerging 3D/4D representations, demonstrating remarkable fluency, perceptual fidelity, and creative expressiveness, and reshaping AI research, industry, and human society.
Concurrently, these advances have given rise to increasingly prominent intellectual property (IP) challenges specific to visual content. As real-world visual data encode rich perceptual and spatiotemporal structures reflecting real-world distributions and human-centered applications, visual generative models learn such structured knowledge from large-scale, well-annotated data and subsequently enable continuous generation, transformation, and secondary creation of visual content, causing IP risks to permeate the entire life cycle of visual generative systems.
The LifeGenIP workshop aims to provide a focused forum on Life-Cycle IP Governance of Visual Generative Models, emphasizing IP challenges spanning the entire model life cycle, from data collection and training to content generation, reuse, and long-term deployment.
Call for Papers
Topics of Interest
The workshop calls for submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:
- IP protection for user data and creative assets: visual-centric digital watermarking, unlearnable examples, anti-personalization, anti-editing/mimicry, AIGC/forgery/tampering detection, machine unlearning, data attribution/provenance, etc.
- IP protection for visual generative models: model watermarking, fingerprinting, ownership verification, usage control, application authorization, non-transferable, non-fine-tuning, undistillation for visual and multi-modal generative models spanning images, videos, 3D/4D content, and world modeling systems.
- IP protection for generative content: protection of generated visual outputs across static, long-running, controllable, and interactive models. This includes, but is not limited to, developing reliable ways to track and prove ownership of AI-created images and solutions for the challenges of interactive tools.
- Fair and privacy-preserving IP protection: fairness-aware watermarking, equitable IP attribution, privacy-preserving IP verification, fairness-privacy trade-offs in IP protection, unbiased IP enforcement, evaluation for fair IP systems, etc.
- Robust and life-long IP protection: robustness to malicious and unauthorized adversarial manipulation, evasion, removal, backdoor, editing, purification, regeneration, fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, compression, quantification, pruning, cross-modality transformation, recomposition, and long-term reuse, etc.
- Dataset and benchmark: Datasets and benchmarks for IP protection in visual and multimodal generative AI, with standardized evaluation in lifecycle settings (e.g., of robustness, attribution, and misuse detection).
Submission Guidelines
Submission Type: We welcome two types of submissions to the workshop and encourage the dissemination and discussion of recent findings related to the workshop topics:
- Archival Track: Submissions will be peer-reviewed following the same policy as the main conference and will be published in the ECCV workshop proceedings. Submissions should not have been published, accepted, or be under review elsewhere.
- Non-Archival Track: Submissions are intended for work that is currently under review or has already been accepted for publication, preferably within the past year, in major conferences or journals. These submissions will not appear in the proceedings.
Submission Format: Submissions must use the ECCV 2026 paper template (LaTeX), with up to 14 pages of main content; references and appendix are unlimited.
Submission Portal: Papers are submitted through OpenReview: Archival Track submission portal and Non-Archival Track submission portal.
Awards & Presentation: Among the accepted papers, two will be selected as Best Paper Awards & oral presentations, while the remaining papers will be presented as posters.
Key Dates
- Submission Open Jun 6, 2026 —
- Abstract Deadline Jul 8, 2026 —
- Submission Deadline Jul 15, 2026 —
- Notification of Acceptance Aug 1, 2026 —
- Camera-Ready Deadline Aug 7, 2026 —
All deadlines are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time.
Workshop Schedule
September 8, 2026 Tentative
Session
Title
Host / Speaker
Introduction and opening remarks
—Invited Talk 1 (20 min + 5 min Q&A)
TBAInvited Talk 2 (20 min + 5 min Q&A)
TBAInvited Talk 3 (20 min + 5 min Q&A)
TBACoffee Break
—Poster Session (interactive discussion; in-person + online)
—Invited Talk 4 (20 min + 5 min Q&A)
TBAInvited Talk 5 (20 min + 5 min Q&A)
TBAOral Presentation 1 (15 min, selected from accepted papers)
TBAOral Presentation 2 (15 min, selected from accepted papers)
TBABest Paper Award Ceremony
—Keynote Speakers
Prof. John Collomosse
Adobe; University of Surrey
Dr. Bo Han
Hong Kong Baptist University
Dr. Zhangyang Wang
University of Texas at Austin
In Alphabetical Order by Last Name
Organizers
Mr. Ziming Hong
Sydney AI Centre, The University of Sydney
Dr. Runqi Lin
University of Oxford
Ms. Yongli Xiang
Sydney AI Centre, The University of Sydney
Ms. Jiaxin Huang
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Nils Lukas
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Mingming Gong
The University of Melbourne; Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Adel Bibi
University of Oxford
Dr. Chris Russell
University of Oxford
Prof. Philip Torr
University of Oxford
Dr. Tongliang Liu
Sydney AI Centre, The University of Sydney; Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Sponsors
We are actively seeking sponsors and industry partners to support the LifeGenIP Workshop at ECCV 2026. Organizations interested in supporting our program, including the workshop and the associated competition, are warmly invited to contact the organizing committee at lifegenip_workshop@googlegroups.com.
Contact
For workshop coordination, submission questions, speaker-related inquiries, and sponsorship opportunities, please contact the organizing committee: lifegenip_workshop@googlegroups.com