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Video Anomaly Detection~(VAD) focuses on identifying anomalies within videos. Supervised methods require an amount of in-domain training data and often struggle to generalize to unseen anomalies. In contrast, training-free methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yihua Shao , Haojin He , Sijie Li , Siyu Chen , Xinwei Long , Fanhu Zeng , Yuxuan Fan , Muyang Zhang , Ziyang Yan , Ao Ma , Xiaochen Wang , Hao Tang , Yan Wang , Shuyan Li

Abnormal event detection or anomaly detection in surveillance videos is currently a challenge because of the diversity of possible events. Due to the lack of anomalous events at training time, anomaly detection requires the design of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Darshan Venkatrayappa

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD), aiming to identify abnormalities within a specific context and timeframe, is crucial for intelligent Video Surveillance Systems. While recent deep learning-based VAD models have shown promising results by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Hao Shen , Lu Shi , Wanru Xu , Yigang Cen , Linna Zhang , Gaoyun An

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

Video anomaly detection (VAD) holds immense importance across diverse domains such as surveillance, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. While numerous surveys focus on conventional VAD methods, they often lack depth in exploring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Moshira Abdalla , Sajid Javed , Muaz Al Radi , Anwaar Ulhaq , Naoufel Werghi

Reasoning Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown promising performance on complex multimodal tasks. However, they still face significant challenges: they are highly sensitive to reasoning errors, require large volumes of annotated data or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yi Ding , Ruqi Zhang

We formulate the abnormal event detection problem as an outlier detection task and we propose a two-stage algorithm based on k-means clustering and one-class Support Vector Machines (SVM) to eliminate outliers. In the feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Radu Tudor Ionescu , Sorina Smeureanu , Marius Popescu , Bogdan Alexe

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

Recent approaches have shown impressive proficiency in extracting and leveraging parametric knowledge from Large-Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs). In this work, we consider how we can improve the identification and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Shubhashis Roy Dipta , Francis Ferraro

Video anomaly detection (VAD) remains a challenging task in the pattern recognition community due to the ambiguity and diversity of abnormal events. Existing deep learning-based VAD methods usually leverage proxy tasks to learn the normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Mengyang Zhao , Yang Liu , Jing Li , Xinhua Zeng

In modern intelligent video surveillance systems, automatic anomaly detection through computer vision analytics plays a pivotal role which not only significantly increases monitoring efficiency but also reduces the burden on live…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Sijie Zhu , Chen Chen , Waqas Sultani

Accurately identifying, understanding and describing traffic safety-critical events (SCEs), including crashes, tire strikes, and near-crashes, is crucial for advanced driver assistance systems, automated driving systems, and traffic safety.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Liang Shi , Boyu Jiang , Tong Zeng , Feng Guo

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown strong video understanding, yet their application to long-form videos remains constrained by limited context windows. A common workaround is to compress long videos into a handful of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yun Wang , Long Zhang , Jingren Liu , Jiaqi Yan , Zhanjie Zhang , Jiahao Zheng , Ao Ma , Run Ling , Xun Yang , Dapeng Wu , Xiangyu Chen , Xuelong Li

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) is tasked with pinpointing temporal intervals containing anomalous events within untrimmed videos, utilizing only video-level annotations. However, a significant challenge arises due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yu Wang , Shiwei Chen

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is essential for enhancing safety and security by identifying unusual events across different environments. Existing VAD benchmarks, however, are primarily designed for general-purpose scenarios, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xinyi Zhao , Congjing Zhang , Pei Guo , Wei Li , Lin Chen , Chaoyue Zhao , Shuai Huang

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 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

Although deep neural networks (DNNs) enable great progress in video abnormal event detection (VAD), existing solutions typically suffer from two issues: (1) The localization of video events cannot be both precious and comprehensive. (2) The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Siqi Wang , Guang Yu , Zhiping Cai , Xinwang Liu , En Zhu , Jianping Yin

The development of unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) relies on technologies in the field of signal processing. Since the anomaly is quite ambiguous and unbounded, different detection demands may often be raised even in one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Kai Cheng , Xinzhe Li , Lijuan Che

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