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Autonomous driving systems remain critically vulnerable to the long-tail of rare, out-of-distribution semantic anomalies. While VLMs have emerged as promising tools for perception, their application in anomaly detection remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Roberto Brusnicki , David Pop , Yuan Gao , Mattia Piccinini , Johannes Betz

Video anomaly detection (VAD) remains a challenging task in the pattern recognition community due to the ambiguity and diversity of abnormal events. Existing deep learning-based VAD methods usually leverage proxy tasks to learn the normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Mengyang Zhao , Yang Liu , Jing Li , Xinhua Zeng

Anomaly detection is vital in various industrial scenarios, including the identification of unusual patterns in production lines and the detection of manufacturing defects for quality control. Existing techniques tend to be specialized in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Xiaohao Xu , Yunkang Cao , Huaxin Zhang , Nong Sang , Xiaonan Huang

Universal visual anomaly detection (AD) aims to identify anomaly images and segment anomaly regions towards open and dynamic scenarios, following zero- and few-shot paradigms without any dataset-specific fine-tuning. We have witnessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Bin-Bin Gao , Chengjie Wang

AI tools in pathology have improved screening throughput, standardized quantification, and revealed prognostic patterns that inform treatment. However, adoption remains limited because most systems still lack the human-readable reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yunqi Hong , Johnson Kao , Liam Edwards , Nein-Tzu Liu , Chung-Yen Huang , Alex Oliveira-Kowaleski , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Neil Y. C. Lin

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) demonstrate strong video understanding by attending to visual tokens relevant to textual queries. To directly adapt this for localization in a training-free manner, we cast video reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Su Ho Han , Jeongseok Hyun , Pilhyeon Lee , Minho Shim , Dongyoon Wee , Seon Joo Kim

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

We present Recurrent Video Masked-Autoencoders (RVM): a novel approach to video representation learning that leverages recurrent computation to model the temporal structure of video data. RVM couples an asymmetric masking objective with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Daniel Zoran , Nikhil Parthasarathy , Yi Yang , Drew A Hudson , Joao Carreira , Andrew Zisserman

This paper introduces an efficient and robust method for discovering interpretable circuits in large language models using discrete sparse autoencoders. Our approach addresses key limitations of existing techniques, namely computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Charles O'Neill , Thang Bui

Despite exciting recent results showing vision-language systems' capacity to reason about images using natural language, their capacity for video reasoning remains under-explored. We motivate framing video reasoning as the sequential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Vaishnavi Himakunthala , Andy Ouyang , Daniel Rose , Ryan He , Alex Mei , Yujie Lu , Chinmay Sonar , Michael Saxon , William Yang Wang

The ability to understand the surrounding scene is of paramount importance for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). This paper presents a system capable to work in an online fashion, giving an immediate response to the arise of anomalies surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Leonardo Rossi , Vittorio Bernuzzi , Tomaso Fontanini , Massimo Bertozzi , Andrea Prati

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive reasoning capabilities across vision-language tasks, yet still face the challenge of compute-difficulty mismatch. Through empirical analyses, we identify that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Huijie Guo , Jingyao Wang , Lingyu Si , Jiahuan Zhou , Changwen Zheng , Wenwen Qiang

Expressway video anomaly detection is essential for safety management. However, identifying anomalies across diverse scenes remains challenging, particularly for far-field targets exhibiting subtle abnormal vehicle motions. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xiaowei Mao , Bowen Sui , Weijie Zhang , Yawen Yang , Shengnan Guo , Shilong Zhao , Jiaqi Lin , Tingrui Wu , Youfang Lin , Huaiyu Wa

While classic video anomaly detection (VAD) requires labeled normal videos for training, emerging unsupervised VAD (UVAD) aims to discover anomalies directly from fully unlabeled videos. However, existing UVAD methods still rely on shallow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Guang Yu , Siqi Wang , Zhiping Cai , Xinwang Liu , Chuanfu Xu , Chengkun Wu

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

Vision-Language Action (VLA) models unify perception, reasoning, and trajectory generation for autonomous driving, but suffer from significant inference latency due to deep transformer stacks. We present DeeAD, a training-free,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Haibo HU , Lianming Huang , Nan Guan , Chun Jason Xue

Medical Anomaly Detection (MedAD) presents a significant opportunity to enhance diagnostic accuracy using Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) to interpret and answer questions based on medical images. However, the reliance on Supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Haitao Zhang , Yingying Wang , Jiaxiang Wang , Haote Xu , Hongyang Zhang , Yirong Chen , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding

Real-time dense scene reconstruction during unstable camera motions is crucial for robotics, yet current RGB-D SLAM systems fail when cameras experience large viewpoint changes, fast motions, or sudden shaking. Classical optimization-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Siyan Dong , Zijun Wang , Lulu Cai , Yi Ma , Yanchao Yang

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) aims to detect anomalies without labeled data, a necessity in many machine learning applications where anomalous samples are rare or not available. Most state-of-the-art methods fall into two categories:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Nicolas Pinon , Carole Lartizien

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