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Video anomaly detection (VAD) is a critical yet challenging task due to the complex and diverse nature of real-world scenarios. Previous methods typically rely on domain-specific training data and manual adjustments when applying to new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zhiwei Yang , Chen Gao , Mike Zheng Shou

Long-video understanding~(LVU) is a challenging problem in computer vision. Existing methods either downsample frames for single-pass reasoning, sacrificing fine-grained details, or depend on textual reasoning over task-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Huaying Yuan , Zheng Liu , Junjie Zhou , Hongjin Qian , Yan Shu , Nicu Sebe , Ji-Rong Wen , Zhicheng Dou

Video anomaly detection (VAD) identifies suspicious events in videos, which is critical for crime prevention and homeland security. In this paper, we propose a simple but highly effective VAD method that relies on attribute-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tal Reiss , Yedid Hoshen

Prior studies on Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) mainly focus on detecting whether each video frame is abnormal or not in the video, which largely ignore the structured video semantic information (i.e., what, when, and where does the abnormal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Junxiao Ma , Jingjing Wang , Jiamin Luo , Peiying Yu , Guodong Zhou

The considerable significance of Anomaly Detection (AD) problem has recently drawn the attention of many researchers. Consequently, the number of proposed methods in this research field has been increased steadily. AD strongly correlates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Bahram Mohammadi , Mahmood Fathy , Mohammad Sabokrou

Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) as reasoning modules that can deconstruct complex tasks into more manageable sub-tasks, particularly when applied to visual reasoning tasks for images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ahmad Mahmood , Ashmal Vayani , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

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

This review article surveys the current progresses made toward video-based anomaly detection. We address the most fundamental aspect for video anomaly detection, that is, video feature representation. Much research works have been done in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Yong Shean Chong , Yong Haur Tay

Properly evaluating the ability of Video-Language Models (VLMs) to understand long videos remains a challenge. We propose a long-context video understanding benchmark, Causal2Needles, that assesses two crucial abilities insufficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Miaoyu Li , Qin Chao , Boyang Li

Exploiting the rapid advances in probabilistic inference, in particular variational Bayes and variational autoencoders (VAEs), for anomaly detection (AD) tasks remains an open research question. Previous works argued that training VAE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Adrian Alan Pol , Victor Berger , Gianluca Cerminara , Cecile Germain , Maurizio Pierini

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is crucial in scenarios such as surveillance and autonomous driving, where timely detection of unexpected activities is essential. Although existing methods have primarily focused on detecting anomalous objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yuzhi Huang , Chenxin Li , Haitao Zhang , Zixu Lin , Yunlong Lin , Hengyu Liu , Wuyang Li , Xinyu Liu , Jiechao Gao , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , Yixuan Yuan

Anomaly detection in videos is a problem that has been studied for more than a decade. This area has piqued the interest of researchers due to its wide applicability. Because of this, there has been a wide array of approaches that have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Jessie James P. Suarez , Prospero C. Naval

Evaluating short-form video content requires moving beyond surface-level quality metrics toward human-aligned, multimodal reasoning. While existing frameworks like VideoScore-2 assess visual and semantic fidelity, they do not capture how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Arnav Gupta , Gurekas Singh Sahney , Hardik Rathi , Abhishek Chandwani , Ishaan Gupta , Pratik Narang , Dhruv Kumar

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong results in video understanding, yet a key question remains: do they truly comprehend visual content or only learn shallow correlations between vision and language? Real visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zongxia Li , Xiyang Wu , Guangyao Shi , Yubin Qin , Hongyang Du , Fuxiao Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Dinesh Manocha , Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber

Current video understanding models excel at recognizing "what" is happening but fall short in high-level cognitive tasks like causal reasoning and future prediction, a limitation rooted in their lack of commonsense world knowledge. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 L'ea Dubois , Klaus Schmidt , Chengyu Wang , Ji-Hoon Park , Lin Wang , Santiago Munoz

Automating the detection of anomalous events within long video sequences is challenging due to the ambiguity of how such events are defined. We approach the problem by learning generative models that can identify anomalies in videos using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Jefferson Ryan Medel , Andreas Savakis

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

Pose-based Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has gained significant attention for its privacy-preserving nature and robustness to environmental variations. However, traditional frame-level evaluations treat video as a collection of isolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Narges Rashvand , Shanle Yao , Armin Danesh Pazho , Babak Rahimi Ardabili , Hamed Tabkhi

Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs) exhibit various types of hallucinations. Existing research has primarily focused on hallucinations involving the presence of events, objects, and scenes in videos, while largely neglecting event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zefan Zhang , Kehua Zhu , Shijie Jiang , Hongyuan Lu , Shengkai Sun , Tian Bai

Traffic accidents present complex challenges for autonomous driving, often featuring unpredictable scenarios that hinder accurate system interpretation and responses. Nonetheless, prevailing methodologies fall short in elucidating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Cheng Li , Keyuan Zhou , Tong Liu , Yu Wang , Mingqiao Zhuang , Huan-ang Gao , Bu Jin , Hao Zhao