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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

Automating the analysis of surveillance video footage is of great interest when urban environments or industrial sites are monitored by a large number of cameras. As anomalies are often context-specific, it is hard to predefine events of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Bo Li , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is an important but challenging task in computer vision. The main challenge rises due to the rarity of training samples to model all anomaly cases. Hence, semi-supervised anomaly detection methods have gotten…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Mohammad Baradaran , Robert Bergevin

Automating the detection of anomalous events within long video sequences is challenging due to the ambiguity of how such events are defined. We approach the problem by learning generative models that can identify anomalies in videos using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Jefferson Ryan Medel , Andreas Savakis

Few-Shot Industrial Anomaly Detection (FS-IAD) has important applications in automating industrial quality inspection. Recently, some FS-IAD methods based on Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have been proposed with some achievements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Mengyang Zhao , Teng Fu , Haiyang Yu , Ke Niu , Bin Li

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

Subtle abnormal events in videos often manifest as weak spatio-temporal cues that are easily overlooked by conventional anomaly detection systems. Existing video anomaly detection approaches typically provide coarse binary anomaly decisions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jihao Gu , Kun Li , He Wang , Kaan Akşit

Anomaly detection in surveillance videos is attracting an increasing amount of attention. Despite the competitive performance of recent methods, they lack theoretical performance analysis, particularly due to the complex deep neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Keval Doshi , Yasin Yilmaz

This paper aims to address the unsupervised video anomaly detection (VAD) problem, which involves classifying each frame in a video as normal or abnormal, without any access to labels. To accomplish this, the proposed method employs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Anil Osman Tur , Nicola Dall'Asen , Cigdem Beyan , Elisa Ricci

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) recognizes and localizes anomalies in previously unseen objects by establishing feature mapping between textual prompts and inspection images, demonstrating excellent research value in flexible industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Huilin Deng , Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Yu Kang

This paper focuses on detecting anomalies in surveillance video using keywords by leveraging foundational models' feature representation generalization capabilities. We present a novel, lightweight pipeline for anomaly classification using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Thomas Foltz

Anomaly detection in computational workflows is critical for ensuring system reliability and security. However, traditional rule-based methods struggle to detect novel anomalies. This paper leverages large language models (LLMs) for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Hongwei Jin , George Papadimitriou , Krishnan Raghavan , Pawel Zuk , Prasanna Balaprakash , Cong Wang , Anirban Mandal , Ewa Deelman

Software systems often record important runtime information in logs to help with troubleshooting. Log-based anomaly detection has become a key research area that aims to identify system issues through log data, ultimately enhancing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Wei Guan , Jian Cao , Shiyou Qian , Jianqi Gao , Chun Ouyang

Current weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WSVAD) task aims to achieve frame-level anomalous event detection with only coarse video-level annotations available. Existing works typically involve extracting global features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Peng Wu , Xuerong Zhou , Guansong Pang , Zhiwei Yang , Qingsen Yan , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Semantic segmentation networks have achieved significant success under the assumption of independent and identically distributed data. However, these networks often struggle to detect anomalies from unknown semantic classes due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Liangyu Zhong , Joachim Sicking , Fabian Hüger , Hanno Gottschalk

Autonomous driving systems remain critically vulnerable to the long-tail of rare, out-of-distribution semantic anomalies. While VLMs have emerged as promising tools for perception, their application in anomaly detection remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Roberto Brusnicki , David Pop , Yuan Gao , Mattia Piccinini , Johannes Betz

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance across many tasks, yet prior studies report unsatisfactory performance when applying large language or multimodal models to finding abnormal patterns in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xiaona Zhou , Muntasir Wahed , Tianjiao Yu , Constantin Brif , Ismini Lourentzou

Expressway video anomaly detection is essential for safety management. However, identifying anomalies across diverse scenes remains challenging, particularly for far-field targets exhibiting subtle abnormal vehicle motions. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xiaowei Mao , Bowen Sui , Weijie Zhang , Yawen Yang , Shengnan Guo , Shilong Zhao , Jiaqi Lin , Tingrui Wu , Youfang Lin , Huaiyu Wa

Visual abductive reasoning (VAR) is a challenging task that requires AI systems to infer the most likely explanation for incomplete visual observations. While recent MLLMs develop strong general-purpose multimodal reasoning capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Boyu Chang , Qi Wang , Xi Guo , Zhixiong Nan , Yazhou Yao , Tianfei Zhou

Latent Action Models (LAMs) have rapidly gained traction as an important component in the pre-training pipelines of leading Vision-Language-Action models. However, they fail when observations contain action-correlated distractors, often…