IP-Bench: Benchmark for Image Protection Methods in Image-to-Video Generation Scenarios

arXiv cs.CV / 3/30/2026

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Key Points

  • The paper introduces IP-Bench, a unified benchmark aimed at evaluating image protection methods specifically in image-to-video (I2V) generation misuse scenarios.
  • It highlights a gap in prior work: existing protection approaches lack standardized evaluation and have not been thoroughly tested in I2V settings, including against preprocessing attacks.
  • IP-Bench benchmarks 6 representative image protection methods across 5 state-of-the-art I2V models, measuring robustness using two practical attack strategies.
  • The study also analyzes how well protections transfer across different I2V models and modalities, aiming to provide insights for real-world deployment.
  • The authors position IP-Bench as systematic, reproducible, and extensible, enabling ongoing evaluation and comparison of future protection techniques.
  • IP-Bench is presented as an arXiv first version announcement (v1), making it an early but concrete research contribution to the evaluation of safety-oriented defenses for I2V systems.

Abstract

With the rapid advancement of image-to-video (I2V) generation models, their potential for misuse in creating malicious content has become a significant concern. For instance, a single image can be exploited to generate a fake video, which can be used to attract attention and gain benefits. This phenomenon is referred to as an I2V generation misuse. Existing image protection methods suffer from the absence of a unified benchmark, leading to an incomplete evaluation framework. Furthermore, these methods have not been systematically assessed in I2V generation scenarios and against preprocessing attacks, which complicates the evaluation of their effectiveness in real-world deployment scenarios.To address this challenge, we propose IP-Bench (Image Protection Bench), the first systematic benchmark designed to evaluate protection methods in I2V generation scenarios. This benchmark examines 6 representative protection methods and 5 state-of-the-art I2V models. Furthermore, our work systematically evaluates protection methods' robustness with two robustness attack strategies under practical scenarios and analyzes their cross-model & cross-modality transferability. Overall, IP-Bench establishes a systematic, reproducible, and extensible evaluation framework for image protection methods in I2V generation scenarios.