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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

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

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

Traffic Anomaly Understanding (TAU) is important for traffic safety in Intelligent Transportation Systems. Recent vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong capabilities in video understanding. However, progress on TAU remains limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yuqiang Lin , Kehua Chen , Sam Lockyer , Arjun Yadav , Mingxuan Sui , Shucheng Zhang , Yan Shi , Bingzhang Wang , Yuang Zhang , Markus Zarbock , Florain Stanek , Adrian Evans , Wenbin Li , Yinhai Wang , Nic Zhang

Visual anomaly detection aims to identify anomalous regions in images through unsupervised learning paradigms, with increasing application demand and value in fields such as industrial inspection and medical lesion detection. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Jiangning Zhang , Haoyang He , Zhenye Gan , Qingdong He , Yuxuan Cai , Zhucun Xue , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Lei Xie , Yong Liu

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) 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

The collection and detection of video anomaly data has long been a challenging problem due to its rare occurrence and spatio-temporal scarcity. Existing video anomaly detection (VAD) methods under perform in open-world scenarios. Key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zunkai Dai , Ke Li , Jiajia Liu , Jie Yang , Yuanyuan Qiao

We develop a novel framework for single-scene video anomaly localization that allows for human-understandable reasons for the decisions the system makes. We first learn general representations of objects and their motions (using deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Ashish Singh , Michael J. Jones , Erik Learned-Miller

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

Comprehending long videos remains a significant challenge for Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs). Current LMMs struggle to process even minutes to hours videos due to their lack of explicit memory and retrieval mechanisms. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Sameer Malik , Moyuru Yamada , Ayush Singh , Dishank Aggarwal

Video anomaly detection is a challenging task not only because it involves solving many sub-tasks such as motion representation, object localization and action recognition, but also because it is commonly considered as an unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Yuqi Ouyang , Victor Sanchez

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) automates the identification of unusual events, such as security threats in surveillance videos. In real-world applications, VAD models must effectively operate in cross-domain settings, identifying rare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yashika Jain , Ali Dabouei , Min Xu

Anomaly detection in videos aims at reporting anything that does not conform the normal behaviour or distribution. However, due to the sparsity of abnormal video clips in real life, collecting annotated data for supervised learning is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Yiwei Lu , Mahesh Kumar Krishna Reddy , Seyed shahabeddin Nabavi , Yang Wang

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) remains a fundamental yet formidable task in the video understanding community, with promising applications in areas such as information forensics and public safety protection. Due to the rarity and diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yang Liu , Hongjin Wang , Zepu Wang , Xiaoguang Zhu , Jing Liu , Peng Sun , Rui Tang , Jianwei Du , Victor C. M. Leung , Liang Song

Understanding abnormal events in videos is a vital and challenging task that has garnered significant attention in a wide range of applications. Although current video understanding Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yingxian Chen , Jiahui Liu , Ruidi Fan , Yanwei Li , Chirui Chang , Shizhen Zhao , Wilton W. T. Fok , Xiaojuan Qi , Yik-Chung Wu

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

Anomaly detection in videos refers to the identification of events that do not conform to expected behavior. However, almost all existing methods tackle the problem by minimizing the reconstruction errors of training data, which cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Wen Liu , Weixin Luo , Dongze Lian , Shenghua Gao

Video anomaly detection (VAD) with weak supervision has achieved remarkable performance in utilizing video-level labels to discriminate whether a video frame is normal or abnormal. However, current approaches are inherently limited to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Peng Wu , Xuerong Zhou , Guansong Pang , Yujia Sun , Jing Liu , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Abductive reasoning seeks the likeliest possible explanation for partial observations. Although abduction is frequently employed in human daily reasoning, it is rarely explored in computer vision literature. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Chen Liang , Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Yi Yang