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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

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

Video Anomaly Understanding (VAU) extends traditional Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) by not only localizing anomalies but also describing and reasoning about their context. Existing VAU approaches often rely on fine-tuned multimodal large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Iñaki Erregue , Kamal Nasrollahi , Sergio Escalera

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) 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

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) 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 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

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant progress in reasoning capabilities and shown promising effectiveness in video anomaly understanding (VAU) tasks. However, existing MLLM-based approaches remain largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zihao Zhao , Shengting Cao , Muchao Ye

Recent video anomaly detection research has expanded rapidly with an emphasis on general models of normality intended to work across many different scenes. While this focus has led to improvements in scalability and multi-scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Furkan Mumcu , Michael J. Jones , Anoop Cherian , Yasin Yilmaz

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) serves as a pivotal technology in the intelligent surveillance systems, enabling the temporal or spatial identification of anomalous events within videos. While existing reviews predominantly concentrate on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yang Liu , Dingkang Yang , Yan Wang , Jing Liu , Jun Liu , Azzedine Boukerche , Peng Sun , Liang Song

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

Semi-supervised video anomaly detection (VAD) methods formulate the task of anomaly detection as detection of deviations from the learned normal patterns. Previous works in the field (reconstruction or prediction-based methods) suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Mohammad Baradaran , Robert Bergevin

This paper proposes a method for detecting anomalies in video data. A Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is used for reducing the dimensionality of video frames, generating latent space information that is comparable to low-dimensional sensory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Giulia Slavic , Damian Campo , Mohamad Baydoun , Pablo Marin , David Martin , Lucio Marcenaro , Carlo Regazzoni

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has emerged as a pivotal task in computer vision, with broad relevance across multiple fields. Recent advances in deep learning have driven significant progress in this area, yet the field remains fragmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Armin Danesh Pazho , Hamed Tabkhi

Anomaly detection is a common analytical task that aims to identify rare cases that differ from the typical cases that make up the majority of a dataset. When applied to the analysis of event sequence data, the task of anomaly detection can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Shunan Guo , Zhuochen Jin , Qing Chen , David Gotz , Hongyuan Zha , Nan Cao

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

Explainable video anomaly detection (VAD) is crucial for safety-critical applications, yet even with recent progress, much of the research still lacks spatial grounding, making the explanations unverifiable. This limitation is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Inpyo Song , Minjun Joo , Joonhyung Kwon , Eunji Jeon , Jangwon Lee

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to discover behaviors or events deviating from the normality in videos. As a long-standing task in the field of computer vision, VAD has witnessed much good progress. In the era of deep learning, with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Peng Wu , Chengyu Pan , Yuting Yan , Guansong Pang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

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