PoseGuard: Pose-Guided Generation with Safety Guardrails

TL;DR

PoseGuard introduces a safety framework for pose-guided video generation that suppresses unsafe outputs while preserving high quality for benign inputs, addressing risks like impersonation and NSFW content.

Contribution

It proposes a dual-objective training strategy with pose-specific LoRA fusion for efficient safety alignment in pose-guided generation.

Findings

Effectively blocks unsafe pose-guided generations

Maintains high fidelity for benign poses

Robust against slight pose variations

Abstract

Pose-guided video generation has become a powerful tool in creative industries, exemplified by frameworks like Animate Anyone. However, conditioning generation on specific poses introduces serious risks, such as impersonation, privacy violations, and NSFW content creation. To address these challenges, we propose $\textbf{PoseGuard}$, a safety alignment framework for pose-guided generation. PoseGuard is designed to suppress unsafe generations by degrading output quality when encountering malicious poses, while maintaining high-fidelity outputs for benign inputs. We categorize unsafe poses into three representative types: discriminatory gestures such as kneeling or offensive salutes, sexually suggestive poses that lead to NSFW content, and poses imitating copyrighted celebrity movements. PoseGuard employs a dual-objective training strategy combining generation fidelity with safety alignment, and uses LoRA-based fine-tuning for efficient, parameter-light updates. To ensure adaptability to evolving threats, PoseGuard supports pose-specific LoRA fusion, enabling flexible and modular updates when new unsafe poses are identified. We further demonstrate the generalizability of PoseGuard to facial landmark-guided generation. Extensive experiments validate that PoseGuard effectively blocks unsafe generations, maintains generation quality for benign inputs, and remains robust against slight pose variations.