Video anomaly detection (VAD) plays a critical role in public safety applications such as intelligent surveillance. However, the rarity, unpredictability, and high annotation cost of real-world anomalies make it difficult to scale VAD datasets, which limits the performance and generalization ability of existing models. To address this challenge, we propose a generative video-enhanced weakly-supervised video anomaly detection (GV-VAD) framework that leverages text-conditioned video generation models to produce semantically controllable and physically plausible synthetic videos. These virtual videos are used to augment training data at low cost. In addition, a synthetic sample loss scaling strategy is utilized to control the influence of generated synthetic samples for efficient training. The experiments show that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on UCF-Crime datasets. The code is available at https://github.com/Sumutan/GV-VAD.git.
@article{arxiv.2508.00312,
title = {GV-VAD : Exploring Video Generation for Weakly-Supervised Video Anomaly Detection},
author = {Suhang Cai and Xiaohao Peng and Chong Wang and Xiaojie Cai and Jiangbo Qian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.00312},
year = {2025}
}