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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

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a crucial role in various domains, including cybersecurity, finance, and healthcare, by identifying patterns or events that deviate from normal behaviour. In recent years, significant progress has been made in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hadi Hojjati , Thi Kieu Khanh Ho , Narges Armanfard

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

VAD is a critical field in machine learning focused on identifying deviations from normal patterns in images, often challenged by the scarcity of anomalous data and the need for unsupervised training. To accelerate research and deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Manuel Barusco , Francesco Borsatti , Arianna Stropeni , Davide Dalle Pezze , Gian Antonio Susto

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

Video anomaly detection (VAD) addresses the problem of automatically finding anomalous events in video data. The primary data modalities on which current VAD systems work on are monochrome or RGB images. Using depth data in this context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Pascal Schneider , Jason Rambach , Bruno Mirbach , Didier Stricker

Visual defect assessment is a form of anomaly detection. This is very relevant in finding faults such as cracks and markings in various surface inspection tasks like pavement and automotive parts. The task involves detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Manpreet Singh Minhas , John Zelek

Anomaly detection (AD) aims at detecting abnormal samples that deviate from the expected normal patterns. Generally, it can be trained merely on normal data, without a requirement for abnormal samples, and thereby plays an important role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yu Cai , Weiwen Zhang , Hao Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng

In line with the development of deep learning, this survey examines the transformative role of Transformers and foundation models in advancing visual anomaly detection (VAD). We explore how these architectures, with their global receptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Mouïn Ben Ammar , Arturo Mendoza , Nacim Belkhir , Antoine Manzanera , Gianni Franchi

In modern manufacturing, Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) is essential for automated inspection and consistent product quality. Yet, increasingly dynamic and flexible production environments introduce key challenges: First, frequent product…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haoyu Ren , Kay Koehle , Kirill Dorofeev , Darko Anicic

Anomaly detection (AD) is a crucial task in machine learning with various applications, such as detecting emerging diseases, identifying financial frauds, and detecting fake news. However, obtaining complete, accurate, and precise labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Minqi Jiang , Chaochuan Hou , Ao Zheng , Xiyang Hu , Songqiao Han , Hailiang Huang , Xiangnan He , Philip S. Yu , Yue Zhao

Human-centric Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to identify human behaviors that deviate from normal. At its core, human-centric VAD faces substantial challenges, such as the complexity of diverse human behaviors, the rarity of anomalies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Armin Danesh Pazho , Shanle Yao , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Babak Rahimi Ardabili , Vinit Katariya , Hamed Tabkhi

This paper investigates the performance of diffusion models for video anomaly detection (VAD) within the most challenging but also the most operational scenario in which the data annotations are not used. As being sparse, diverse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Anil Osman Tur , Nicola Dall'Asen , Cigdem Beyan , Elisa Ricci

Video anomaly detection is a subject of great interest across industrial and academic domains due to its crucial role in computer vision applications. However, the inherent unpredictability of anomalies and the scarcity of anomaly samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Yalong Jiang , Liquan Mao

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is critical for surveillance and public safety. However, existing benchmarks are limited to either frame-level or video-level tasks, restricting a holistic view of model generalization. This work first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Seoik Jung , Taekyung Song , Joshua Jordan Daniel , JinYoung Lee , SungJun Lee

Space missions generate massive volumes of high-resolution orbital and surface imagery that far exceed the capacity for manual inspection. Detecting rare phenomena is scientifically critical, yet traditional supervised learning struggles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Fabrizio Genilotti , Arianna Stropeni , Francesco Borsatti , Manuel Barusco , Davide Dalle Pezze , Gian Antonio Susto

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to localize abnormal events on the timeline of long-range surveillance videos. Anomaly-scoring-based methods have been prevailing for years but suffer from the high complexity of thresholding and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Hui Lv , Qianru Sun

This technical report outlines our submission to the zero-shot track of the Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection (VAND) 2023 Challenge. Building on the performance of the WINCLIP framework, we aim to enhance the system's localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Matthew Baugh , James Batten , Johanna P. Müller , Bernhard Kainz

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Suhang Cai , Xiaohao Peng , Chong Wang , Xiaojie Cai , Jiangbo Qian

Existing video anomaly detection datasets are inadequate for representing complex anomalies that occur due to the interactions between objects. The absence of complex anomalies in previous video anomaly detection datasets affects research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Furkan Mumcu , Michael J. Jones , Yasin Yilmaz , Anoop Cherian