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Video anomaly detection (VAD) is crucial for video analysis and surveillance in computer vision. However, existing VAD models rely on learned normal patterns, which makes them difficult to apply to diverse environments. Consequently, users…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Sunghyun Ahn , Youngwan Jo , Kijung Lee , Sein Kwon , Inpyo Hong , Sanghyun Park

Automating the detection of anomalous events within long video sequences is challenging due to the ambiguity of how such events are defined. We approach the problem by learning generative models that can identify anomalies in videos using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Jefferson Ryan Medel , Andreas Savakis

We propose a novel approach to video anomaly detection: we treat feature vectors extracted from videos as realizations of a random variable with a fixed distribution and model this distribution with a neural network. This lets us estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jakub Micorek , Horst Possegger , Dominik Narnhofer , Horst Bischof , Mateusz Kozinski

Self-supervised learning allows for better utilization of unlabelled data. The feature representation obtained by self-supervision can be used in downstream tasks such as classification, object detection, segmentation, and anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Rabia Ali , Muhammad Umar Karim Khan , Chong Min Kyung

Anomaly detection is a popular and vital task in various research contexts, which has been studied for several decades. To ensure the safety of people's lives and assets, video surveillance has been widely deployed in various public spaces,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jing Ren , Feng Xia , Yemeng Liu , Ivan Lee

Few-shot anomaly detection (FSAD) has emerged as a crucial yet challenging task in industrial inspection, where normal distribution modeling must be accomplished with only a few normal images. While existing approaches typically employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Qishan Wang , Jia Guo , Shuyong Gao , Haofen Wang , Li Xiong , Junjie Hu , Hanqi Guo , Wenqiang Zhang

Few-shot learning aims to adapt knowledge learned from previous tasks to novel tasks with only a limited amount of labeled data. Research literature on few-shot learning exhibits great diversity, while different algorithms often excel at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Chi Zhang , Henghui Ding , Guosheng Lin , Ruibo Li , Changhu Wang , Chunhua Shen

Visual anomaly detection has been widely used in industrial inspection and medical diagnosis. Existing methods typically demand substantial training samples, limiting their utility in zero-/few-shot scenarios. While recent efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Qingqing Fang , Wenxi Lv , Qinliang Su

In this paper, we are interested in the few-shot learning problem. In particular, we focus on a challenging scenario where the number of categories is large and the number of examples per novel category is very limited, e.g. 1, 2, or 3.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Siyuan Qiao , Chenxi Liu , Wei Shen , Alan Yuille

Surveillance videos are able to capture a variety of realistic anomalies. In this paper, we propose to learn anomalies by exploiting both normal and anomalous videos. To avoid annotating the anomalous segments or clips in training videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Waqas Sultani , Chen Chen , Mubarak Shah

Several anomaly detection and classification methods rely on large amounts of non-anomalous or "normal" samples under the assump- tion that anomalous data is typically harder to acquire. This hypothesis becomes questionable in Few-Shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Aymane Abdali , Bartosz Boguslawski , Lucas Drumetz , Vincent Gripon

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) identifies unusual activities in video streams, a key technology with broad applications ranging from surveillance to healthcare. Tackling VAD in real-life settings poses significant challenges due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shanle Yao , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Armin Danesh Pazho , Hamed Tabkhi

This paper introduces a novel anomaly detection (AD) problem aimed at identifying `odd-looking' objects within a scene by comparing them to other objects present. Unlike traditional AD benchmarks with fixed anomaly criteria, our task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ankan Bhunia , Changjian Li , Hakan Bilen

A robust and efficient anomaly detection technique is proposed, capable of dealing with crowded scenes where traditional tracking based approaches tend to fail. Initial foreground segmentation of the input frames confines the analysis to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Vikas Reddy , Conrad Sanderson , Brian C. Lovell

In autonomous driving, the most challenging scenarios can only be detected within their temporal context. Most video anomaly detection approaches focus either on surveillance or traffic accidents, which are only a subfield of autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Daniel Bogdoll , Jan Imhof , Tim Joseph , Svetlana Pavlitska , J. Marius Zöllner

Anomaly detectors address the difficult problem of detecting automatically exceptions in an arbitrary background image. Detection methods have been proposed by the thousands because each problem requires a different background model. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Axel Davy , Thibaud Ehret , Jean-Michel Morel , Mauricio Delbracio

In this paper, we explore a weakly supervised method for anomaly detection. Since annotating videos is time-consuming, we only look at weak video-level labels during training. This means that given a video, we know that it is either normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Urvi Gianchandani , Praveen Tirupattur , Mubarak Shah

Humans can easily recognize actions with only a few examples given, while the existing video recognition models still heavily rely on the large-scale labeled data inputs. This observation has motivated an increasing interest in few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Yuqian Fu , Li Zhang , Junke Wang , Yanwei Fu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Video anomaly detection is an essential but challenging task. The prevalent methods mainly investigate the reconstruction difference between normal and abnormal patterns but ignore the semantics consistency between appearance and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Xiangyu Huang , Caidan Zhao , Zhiqiang Wu

Reinforcement learning and planning methods require an objective or reward function that encodes the desired behavior. Yet, in practice, there is a wide range of scenarios where an objective is difficult to provide programmatically, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Annie Xie , Avi Singh , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn