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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) 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 understanding (VAU) aims to provide detailed interpretation and semantic comprehension of anomalous events within videos, addressing limitations of traditional methods that focus solely on detecting and localizing anomalies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Ying Cheng , Yu-Ho Lin , Min-Hung Chen , Fu-En Yang , Shang-Hong Lai

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is crucial for applications such as security surveillance and autonomous driving. However, existing VAD methods provide little rationale behind detection, hindering public trust in real-world deployments. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuchen Yang , Kwonjoon Lee , Behzad Dariush , Yinzhi Cao , Shao-Yuan Lo

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) identifies unusual activities in video streams, a key technology with broad applications ranging from surveillance to healthcare. Tackling VAD in real-life settings poses significant challenges due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shanle Yao , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Armin Danesh Pazho , Hamed Tabkhi

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to detect anomalies that deviate from what is expected. In open-world scenarios, the expected events may change as requirements change. For example, not wearing a mask may be considered abnormal during a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zihao Liu , Xiaoyu Wu , Jianqin Wu , Xuxu Wang , Linlin Yang

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is a significant computer vision problem. Existing deep neural network (DNN) based VAD methods mostly follow the route of frame reconstruction or frame prediction. However, the lack of mining and learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Zhiwei Yang , Jing Liu , Zhaoyang Wu , Peng Wu , Xiaotao Liu

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) systems can autonomously monitor and identify disturbances, reducing the need for manual labor and associated costs. However, current VAD systems are often limited by their superficial semantic understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jiaqi Tang , Hao Lu , Ruizheng Wu , Xiaogang Xu , Ke Ma , Cheng Fang , Bin Guo , Jiangbo Lu , Qifeng Chen , Ying-Cong Chen

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to identify and ground anomalous behaviors or events in videos, serving as a core technology in the fields of intelligent surveillance and public safety. With the advancement of deep learning, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shibo Gao , Peipei Yang , Haiyang Guo , Yangyang Liu , Yi Chen , Shuai Li , Han Zhu , Jian Xu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Linlin Huang

Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) endeavors to pinpoint deviations from the concept of normality in visual data, widely applied across diverse domains, e.g., industrial defect inspection, and medical lesion detection. This survey…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yunkang Cao , Xiaohao Xu , Jiangning Zhang , Yuqi Cheng , Xiaonan Huang , Guansong Pang , Weiming Shen

Towards open-ended Video Anomaly Detection (VAD), existing methods often exhibit biased detection when faced with challenging or unseen events and lack interpretability. To address these drawbacks, we propose Holmes-VAD, a novel framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Huaxin Zhang , Xiaohao Xu , Xiang Wang , Jialong Zuo , Chuchu Han , Xiaonan Huang , Changxin Gao , Yuehuan Wang , Nong Sang

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) can play a key role in spotting unusual activities in video footage. VAD is difficult to use in real-world settings due to the dynamic nature of human actions, environmental variations, and domain shifts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shanle Yao , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Armin Danesh Pazho , Hamed Tabkhi

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to identify unexpected events in videos and has wide applications in safety-critical domains. While semi-supervised methods trained on only normal samples have gained traction, they often suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zongcan Ding , Haodong Zhang , Peng Wu , Guansong Pang , Zhiwei Yang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

The rapid advancement of vision-language models (VLMs) has established a new paradigm in video anomaly detection (VAD): leveraging VLMs to simultaneously detect anomalies and provide comprehendible explanations for the decisions. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Muchao Ye , Weiyang Liu , Pan He

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is crucial for video analysis and surveillance in computer vision. However, existing VAD models rely on learned normal patterns, which makes them difficult to apply to diverse environments. Consequently, users…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Sunghyun Ahn , Youngwan Jo , Kijung Lee , Sein Kwon , Inpyo Hong , Sanghyun Park

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

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is an open-set recognition task, which is usually formulated as a one-class classification (OCC) problem, where training data is comprised of videos with normal instances while test data contains both normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ayush K. Rai , Tarun Krishna , Feiyan Hu , Alexandru Drimbarean , Kevin McGuinness , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

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

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

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