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Existing Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) methods typically rely on task-specific training, leading to strong domain dependency and high training costs. Moreover, most existing methods output only scalar anomaly scores, providing limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Hyeongmuk Lim , Youngbum Hur

In weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WVAD), where only video-level labels indicating the presence or absence of abnormal events are available, the primary challenge arises from the inherent ambiguity in temporal annotations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yixuan Zhou , Yi Qu , Xing Xu , Fumin Shen , Jingkuan Song , Hengtao Shen

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

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

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

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) 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

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to automatically identify events that deviate from normal patterns in untrimmed surveillance videos. Existing methods universally depend on large-scale annotations or task-specific training procedures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Chao Huang , Penfei Wei , Wei Wang , Jie Wen , Zhihua Wang , Li Shen , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

Video anomaly detection (VAD) has witnessed significant advancements through the integration of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), addressing critical challenges such as interpretability, temporal reasoning, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Xi Ding , Lei Wang

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

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

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is currently a challenging task due to the complexity of anomaly as well as the lack of labor-intensive temporal annotations. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end Global Information Guided (GIG) anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Hui Lv , Chunyan Xu , Zhen Cui

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to locate events that deviate from normal patterns in videos. Traditional approaches often rely on extensive labeled data and incur high computational costs. Recent tuning-free methods based on Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Zhaolin Cai , Fan Li , Ziwei Zheng , Haixia Bi , Lijun He

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has been extensively studied under the settings of One-Class Classification (OCC) and Weakly-Supervised learning (WS), which however both require laborious human-annotated normal/abnormal labels. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yongwei Nie , Hao Huang , Chengjiang Long , Qing Zhang , Pradipta Maji , Hongmin Cai

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) 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

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

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

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

We introduce Text-based Explainable Video Anomaly Detection (TbVAD), a language-driven framework for weakly supervised video anomaly detection that performs anomaly detection and explanation entirely within the textual domain. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Hari Lee