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Underwater video monitoring is a promising strategy for assessing marine biodiversity, but the vast volume of uneventful footage makes manual inspection highly impractical. In this work, we explore the use of visual anomaly detection (VAD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Laura Weihl , Stefan H. Bengtson , Nejc Novak , Malte Pedersen

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

In recent years, Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) has gained significant attention due to its ability to identify defects using only normal images during training. Many VAD models work without supervision but are still able to provide visual…

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

Video anomaly detection (VAD) often learns the distribution of normal samples and detects the anomaly through measuring significant deviations, but the undesired generalization may reconstruct a few anomalies thus suppressing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiahao Lyu , Minghua Zhao , Jing Hu , Xuewen Huang , Shuangli Du , Cheng Shi , Zhiyong Lv

Recent progress in reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models(MLLMs) has highlighted their potential for performing complex video understanding tasks. However, in the domain of Video Anomaly Detection and Understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Chao Huang , Benfeng Wang , Wei Wang , Jie Wen , Li Shen , Wenqi Ren , Yong Xu , Xiaochun Cao

Semi-supervised video anomaly detection methods face two critical challenges: (1) Strong generalization blurs the boundary between normal and abnormal patterns. Although existing approaches attempt to alleviate this issue using memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Juntong Li , Lingwei Dang , Qingxin Xiao , Shishuo Shang , Jiajia Cheng , Haomin Wu , Yun Hao , Qingyao Wu

In recent years, many works have addressed the problem of finding never-seen-before anomalies in videos. Yet, most work has been focused on detecting anomalous frames in surveillance videos taken from security cameras. Meanwhile, the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Laura Kart , Niv Cohen

Anomaly detection is a challenging problem in intelligent video surveillance. Most existing methods are computation consuming, which cannot satisfy the real-time requirement. In this paper, we propose a real-time anomaly detection framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Huihui Zhu , Bin Liu , Guojun Yin , Yan Lu , Weihai Li , Nenghai Yu

In this paper, we propose $\text{HF}^2$-VAD, a Hybrid framework that integrates Flow reconstruction and Frame prediction seamlessly to handle Video Anomaly Detection. Firstly, we design the network of ML-MemAE-SC (Multi-Level Memory modules…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhian Liu , Yongwei Nie , Chengjiang Long , Qing Zhang , Guiqing Li

Prompting has emerged as a practical way to adapt frozen vision-language models (VLMs) for video anomaly detection (VAD). Yet, existing prompts are often overly abstract, overlooking the fine-grained human-object interactions or action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Shu Zou , Xinyu Tian , Lukas Wesemann , Fabian Waschkowski , Zhaoyuan Yang , Jing Zhang

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

The increasing popularity of compact and inexpensive cameras, e.g.~dash cameras, body cameras, and cameras equipped on robots, has sparked a growing interest in detecting anomalies within dynamic scenes recorded by moving cameras. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Runyu Jiao , Yi Wan , Fabio Poiesi , Yiming Wang

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

Modern software systems generate extensive heterogeneous log data with dynamic formats, fragmented event sequences, and varying temporal patterns, making anomaly detection both crucial and challenging. To address these complexities, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Przemek Pospieszny , Wojciech Mormul , Karolina Szyndler , Sanjeev Kumar

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to identify abnormal events in videos. Traditional VAD methods generally suffer from the high costs of labeled data and full training, thus some recent works have explored leveraging frozen multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zhaolin Cai , Fan Li , Huiyu Duan , Lijun He , Guangtao Zhai

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) involves detecting anomalous events in videos, presenting a significant and intricate task within intelligent video surveillance. Existing studies often concentrate solely on features acquired from limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhewen Deng , Dongyue Chen , Shizhuo Deng

Video Anomaly Detection(VAD) has been traditionally tackled in two main methodologies: the reconstruction-based approach and the prediction-based one. As the reconstruction-based methods learn to generalize the input image, the model merely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Joo-Yeon Lee , Woo-Jeoung Nam , Seong-Whan Lee

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is an important topic in computer vision. Motivated by the recent advances in self-supervised learning, this paper addresses VAD by solving an intuitive yet challenging pretext task, i.e., spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Guodong Wang , Yunhong Wang , Jie Qin , Dongming Zhang , Xiuguo Bao , Di Huang

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is a critical yet challenging task due to the complex and diverse nature of real-world scenarios. Previous methods typically rely on domain-specific training data and manual adjustments when applying to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zhiwei Yang , Chen Gao , Mike Zheng Shou

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is crucial for intelligent surveillance, but a significant challenge lies in identifying complex anomalies, which are events defined by intricate relationships and temporal dependencies among multiple entities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mohammad Mahdi Hemmatyar , Mahdi Jafari , Mohammad Amin Yousefi , Mohammad Reza Nemati , Mobin Azadani , Hamid Reza Rastad , Amirmohammad Akbari