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Recent advancements in reasoning capability of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate its effectiveness in tackling complex visual tasks. However, existing MLLM-based Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) methods remain limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chao Huang , Benfeng Wang , Jie Wen , Chengliang Liu , Wei Wang , Li Shen , Xiaochun Cao

Most models for weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) rely on multiple instance learning, aiming to distinguish normal and abnormal snippets without specifying the type of anomaly. However, the ambiguous nature of anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chenchen Tao , Xiaohao Peng , Chong Wang , Jiafei Wu , Puning Zhao , Jun Wang , Jiangbo Qian

Open Vocabulary Video Anomaly Detection (OVVAD) seeks to detect and classify both base and novel anomalies. However, existing methods face two specific challenges related to novel anomalies. The first challenge is detection ambiguity, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Fei Li , Wenxuan Liu , Jingjing Chen , Ruixu Zhang , Yuran Wang , Xian Zhong , Zheng Wang

Video anomaly detection (VAD) in autonomous driving scenario is an important task, however it involves several challenges due to the ego-centric views and moving camera. Due to this, it remains largely under-explored. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Utkarsh Tiwari , Snehashis Majhi , Michal Balazia , François Brémond

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to automatically analyze spatiotemporal patterns in surveillance videos collected from open spaces to detect anomalous events that may cause harm, such as fighting, stealing, and car accidents. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yang Liu , Siao Liu , Xiaoguang Zhu , Jielin Li , Hao Yang , Liangyu Teng , Juncen Guo , Yan Wang , Dingkang Yang , Jing Liu

We introduce the task of human action anomaly detection (HAAD), which aims to identify anomalous motions in an unsupervised manner given only the pre-determined normal category of training action samples. Compared to prior human-related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Shun Maeda , Chunzhi Gu , Jun Yu , Shogo Tokai , Shangce Gao , Chao Zhang

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

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) automatically identifies anomalous events from video, mitigating the need for human operators in large-scale surveillance deployments. However, two fundamental obstacles hinder real-world adoption: domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Hyogun Lee , Haksub Kim , Ig-Jae Kim , Yonghun Choi

Video anomaly detection (VAD) focuses on identifying anomalies in videos. Supervised methods demand substantial in-domain training data and fail to deliver clear explanations for anomalies. In contrast, training-free methods leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Wenlong Li , Yifei Xu , Yuan Rao , Zhenhua Wang , Shuiguang Deng

Anomaly detection and localization in visual data, including images and videos, are crucial in machine learning and real-world applications. Despite rapid advancements in visual anomaly detection (VAD), interpreting these often black-box…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yizhou Wang , Dongliang Guo , Sheng Li , Octavia Camps , Yun Fu

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is a fundamental challenge in computer vision, particularly due to the open-set nature of anomalies. While recent training-free approaches utilizing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown promise, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Lokman Bekit , Hamza Karim , Nghia T Nguyen , Yasin Yilmaz

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

The ability to understand the surrounding scene is of paramount importance for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). This paper presents a system capable to work in an online fashion, giving an immediate response to the arise of anomalies surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Leonardo Rossi , Vittorio Bernuzzi , Tomaso Fontanini , Massimo Bertozzi , Andrea Prati

Recently, weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) has emerged as a contemporary research direction to identify anomaly events like violence and nudity in videos using only video-level labels. However, this task has substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Ayush Ghadiya , Purbayan Kar , Vishal Chudasama , Pankaj Wasnik

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to identify anomalous events in videos and accurately determine their time intervals. Current VAD methods mainly fall into two categories: traditional DNN-based approaches that focus on temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shibo Gao , Peipei Yang , Yangyang Liu , Yi Chen , Han Zhu , Xuyao Zhang , Linlin Huang

Open Set Video Anomaly Detection (OpenVAD) aims to identify abnormal events from video data where both known anomalies and novel ones exist in testing. Unsupervised models learned solely from normal videos are applicable to any testing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yuansheng Zhu , Wentao Bao , Qi Yu

Open-world video anomaly detection (OWVAD) aims to detect and explain abnormal events under different anomaly definitions, which is important for applications such as intelligent surveillance and live-streaming content moderation. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zihao Liu , Xiaoyu Wu , Wenna Li , Jianqin Wu , Linlin Yang

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

The reliability of a machine vision system for autonomous driving depends heavily on its training data distribution. When a vehicle encounters significantly different conditions, such as atypical obstacles, its perceptual capabilities can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Fabrizio Genilotti , Arianna Stropeni , Gionata Grotto , Francesco Borsatti , Manuel Barusco , Davide Dalle Pezze , Gian Antonio Susto

Anomaly detection has attracted considerable search attention. However, existing anomaly detection databases encounter two major problems. Firstly, they are limited in scale. Secondly, training sets contain only video-level labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Boyang Wan , Wenhui Jiang , Yuming Fang , Zhiyuan Luo , Guanqun Ding