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Weakly-Supervised Video Anomaly Detection aims to identify anomalous events using only video-level labels, balancing annotation efficiency with practical applicability. However, existing methods often oversimplify the anomaly space by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Junhee Lee , ChaeBeen Bang , MyoungChul Kim , MyeongAh Cho

We propose a lightweight and accurate method for detecting anomalies in videos. Existing methods used multiple-instance learning (MIL) to determine the normal/abnormal status of each segment of the video. Recent successful researches argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Yudai Watanabe , Makoto Okabe , Yasunori Harada , Naoji Kashima

Towards open-ended Video Anomaly Detection (VAD), existing methods often exhibit biased detection when faced with challenging or unseen events and lack interpretability. To address these drawbacks, we propose Holmes-VAD, a novel framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Huaxin Zhang , Xiaohao Xu , Xiang Wang , Jialong Zuo , Chuchu Han , Xiaonan Huang , Changxin Gao , Yuehuan Wang , Nong Sang

Abnormal event detection or anomaly detection in surveillance videos is currently a challenge because of the diversity of possible events. Due to the lack of anomalous events at training time, anomaly detection requires the design of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Darshan Venkatrayappa

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD), which aims to detect anomalies that deviate from expectation, has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Existing advancements in VAD primarily focus on model architectures and training strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zihao Liu , Xiaoyu Wu , Wenna Li , Linlin Yang , Shengjin Wang

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is an important computer vision problem. Thanks to the mode coverage capabilities of generative models, the likelihood-based paradigm is catching growing interest, as it can model normal distribution and detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hanwen Zhang , Congqi Cao , Qinyi Lv , Lingtong Min , Yanning Zhang

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

Video anomaly detection (VAD) mainly refers to identifying anomalous events that have not occurred in the training set where only normal samples are available. Existing works usually formulate VAD as a reconstruction or prediction problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Yue Lu , Congqi Cao , Yanning Zhang

Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) endeavors to pinpoint deviations from the concept of normality in visual data, widely applied across diverse domains, e.g., industrial defect inspection, and medical lesion detection. This survey…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yunkang Cao , Xiaohao Xu , Jiangning Zhang , Yuqi Cheng , Xiaonan Huang , Guansong Pang , Weiming Shen

Unsupervised (US) video anomaly detection (VAD) in surveillance applications is gaining more popularity recently due to its practical real-world applications. As surveillance videos are privacy sensitive and the availability of large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Anas Al-lahham , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Nurbek Tastan , Karthik Nandakumar

Weakly-supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) using Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) suffers from label ambiguity, hindering discriminative feature learning. We propose ProDisc-VAD, an efficient framework tackling this via two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Tao Zhu , Qi Yu , Xinru Dong , Shiyu Li , Yue Liu , Jinlong Jiang , Lei Shu

Video anomaly detection (VAD) has been paid increasing attention due to its potential applications, its current dominant tasks focus on online detecting anomalies% at the frame level, which can be roughly interpreted as the binary or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Peng Wu , Jing Liu , Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) involves identifying the temporal intervals that contain anomalous events in untrimmed videos, where only video-level annotations are provided as supervisory signals. However, a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yu Wang , Shengjie Zhao

In weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WVAD), where only video-level labels indicating the presence or absence of abnormal events are available, the primary challenge arises from the inherent ambiguity in temporal annotations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yixuan Zhou , Yi Qu , Xing Xu , Fumin Shen , Jingkuan Song , Hengtao Shen

Existing semi-supervised video anomaly detection (VAD) methods often struggle with detecting complex anomalies involving object interactions and generally lack explainability. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel VAD framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Furkan Mumcu , Michael J. Jones , Anoop Cherian , Yasin Yilmaz

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to identify and locate deviations from normal patterns in video sequences. Traditional methods often struggle with substantial computational demands and a reliance on extensive labeled datasets, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhaolin Cai , Fan Li , Ziwei Zheng , Yanjun Qin

Recent efforts towards video anomaly detection (VAD) try to learn a deep autoencoder to describe normal event patterns with small reconstruction errors. The video inputs with large reconstruction errors are regarded as anomalies at the test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yuandu Lai , Yahong Han , Yaowei Wang

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WSVAD) is a challenging task since only video-level labels are available for training. In previous studies, the discriminative power of the learned features is not strong enough, and the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Congqi Cao , Xin Zhang , Shizhou Zhang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Anomaly activities such as robbery, explosion, accidents, etc. need immediate actions for preventing loss of human life and property in real world surveillance systems. Although the recent automation in surveillance systems are capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Snehashis Majhi , Srijan Das , Francois Bremond , Ratnakar Dash , Pankaj Kumar Sa

Event-based vision, characterized by low redundancy, focus on dynamic motion, and inherent privacy-preserving properties, naturally fits the demands of video anomaly detection (VAD). However, the absence of dedicated event-stream anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Peng Wu , Yuting Yan , Guansong Pang , Yujia Sun , Qingsen Yan , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang