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Generative models based on variational autoencoders are a popular technique for detecting anomalies in images in a semi-supervised context. A common approach employs the anomaly score to detect the presence of anomalies, and it is known to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Muhammad Rashid , Elvio Amparore , Enrico Ferrari , Damiano Verda

Autonomous operations of robots in unknown environments are challenging due to the lack of knowledge of the dynamics of the interactions, such as the objects' movability. This work introduces a novel Causal Reinforcement Learning approach…

Video anomaly detection is of critical practical importance to a variety of real applications because it allows human attention to be focused on events that are likely to be of interest, in spite of an otherwise overwhelming volume of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Guansong Pang , Cheng Yan , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Xiao Bai

The era of big data has witnessed an increasing availability of observational data from mobile and social networking, online advertising, web mining, healthcare, education, public policy, marketing campaigns, and so on, which facilitates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Zhixuan Chu , Ruopeng Li , Stephen Rathbun , Sheng Li

Modern computer vision applications rely on learning-based perception modules parameterized with neural networks for tasks like object detection. These modules frequently have low expected error overall but high error on atypical groups of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Cinjon Resnick , Or Litany , Amlan Kar , Karsten Kreis , James Lucas , Kyunghyun Cho , Sanja Fidler

Learning causal structure from observational data is a fundamental challenge in machine learning. However, the majority of commonly used differentiable causal discovery methods are non-identifiable, turning this problem into a continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Yu Wang , An Zhang , Xiang Wang , Yancheng Yuan , Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua

Causal learning has long concerned itself with the accurate recovery of underlying causal mechanisms. Such causal modelling enables better explanations of out-of-distribution data. Prior works on causal learning assume that the high-level…

Distributional robustness is a central goal of prediction algorithms due to the prevalent distribution shifts in real-world data. The prediction model aims to minimize the worst-case risk among a class of distributions, a.k.a., an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-20 Marin Šola , Peter Bühlmann , Xinwei Shen

Causality has been combined with machine learning to produce robust representations for domain generalization. Most existing methods of this type require massive data from multiple domains to identify causal features by cross-domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Yang Chen , Yitao Liang , Zhouchen Lin

In Pose-based Video Anomaly Detection prior art is rooted on the assumption that abnormal events can be mostly regarded as a result of uncommon human behavior. Opposed to utilizing skeleton representations of humans, however, we investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-30 Mia Siemon , Ivan Nikolov , Thomas B. Moeslund , Kamal Nasrollahi

Anomaly detection in surveillance videos is a challenging task due to the diversity of anomalous video content and duration. In this paper, we consider video anomaly detection as a regression problem with respect to anomaly scores of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Boyang Wan , Yuming Fang , Xue Xia , Jiajie Mei

We study self-supervised video representation learning, which is a challenging task due to 1) lack of labels for explicit supervision; 2) unstructured and noisy visual information. Existing methods mainly use contrastive loss with video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Deng Huang , Wenhao Wu , Weiwen Hu , Xu Liu , Dongliang He , Zhihua Wu , Xiangmiao Wu , Mingkui Tan , Errui Ding

Visual perception entails solving a wide set of tasks, e.g., object detection, depth estimation, etc. The predictions made for multiple tasks from the same image are not independent, and therefore, are expected to be consistent. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Amir Zamir , Alexander Sax , Teresa Yeo , Oğuzhan Kar , Nikhil Cheerla , Rohan Suri , Zhangjie Cao , Jitendra Malik , Leonidas Guibas

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) techniques have proven to be very useful in image-based anomaly detection applications. CNN can be used as deep features extractor where other anomaly detection techniques are applied on these features.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Sulaiman Aburakhia , Tareq Tayeh , Ryan Myers , Abdallah Shami

In this paper, we propose an accurate and real-time anomaly detection and localization in crowded scenes, and two descriptors for representing anomalous behavior in video are proposed. We consider a video as being a set of cubic patches.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Mohammad Sabokrou , Mahmood Fathy , Mojtaba Hosseini

One-class anomaly detection is challenging. A representation that clearly distinguishes anomalies from normal data is ideal, but arriving at this representation is difficult since only normal data is available at training time. We examine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Kimberly T. Mai , Toby Davies , Lewis D. Griffin

In causal models, a given mechanism is assumed to be invariant to changes of other mechanisms. While this principle has been utilized for inference in settings where the causal variables are observed, theoretical insights when the variables…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-07 Simon Bing , Jonas Wahl , Urmi Ninad , Jakob Runge

Causal representation learning aims to unveil latent high-level causal representations from observed low-level data. One of its primary tasks is to provide reliable assurance of identifying these latent causal models, known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yuhang Liu , Zhen Zhang , Dong Gong , Mingming Gong , Biwei Huang , Anton van den Hengel , Kun Zhang , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Visual representations underlie object recognition tasks, but they often contain both robust and non-robust features. Our main observation is that image classifiers may perform poorly on out-of-distribution samples because spurious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Chengzhi Mao , Kevin Xia , James Wang , Hao Wang , Junfeng Yang , Elias Bareinboim , Carl Vondrick

Multi-label classification (MLC) remains vulnerable to label imbalance, spurious correlations, and distribution shifts, challenges that are particularly detrimental to rare label prediction. To address these limitations, we introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yijia Fan , Jusheng Zhang , Kaitong Cai , Jing Yang , Keze Wang