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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

Video description is one of the most challenging problems in vision and language understanding due to the large variability both on the video and language side. Models, hence, typically shortcut the difficulty in recognition and generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Luowei Zhou , Yannis Kalantidis , Xinlei Chen , Jason J. Corso , Marcus Rohrbach

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to identify abnormal events in videos. Traditional VAD methods generally suffer from the high costs of labeled data and full training, thus some recent works have explored leveraging frozen multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Zhaolin Cai , Fan Li , Huiyu Duan , Lijun He , Guangtao Zhai

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

This paper aims to address the unsupervised video anomaly detection (VAD) problem, which involves classifying each frame in a video as normal or abnormal, without any access to labels. To accomplish this, the proposed method employs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Anil Osman Tur , Nicola Dall'Asen , Cigdem Beyan , Elisa Ricci

Humans detect real-world object anomalies by perceiving, interacting, and reasoning based on object-conditioned physical knowledge. The long-term goal of Industrial Anomaly Detection (IAD) is to enable machines to autonomously replicate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Wenqiao Li , Yao Gu , Xintao Chen , Xiaohao Xu , Ming Hu , Xiaonan Huang , Yingna Wu

The practical deployment of Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) systems is hindered by their sensitivity to real-world imaging variations, particularly the complex interplay between viewpoint and illumination which drastically alters defect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Yunkang Cao , Yuqi Cheng , Xiaohao Xu , Yiheng Zhang , Yihan Sun , Yuxiang Tan , Yuxin Zhang , Xiaonan Huang , Weiming Shen

Semantic anomalies are contextually invalid or unusual combinations of familiar visual elements that can cause undefined behavior and failures in system-level reasoning for autonomous systems. This work explores semantic anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Max Peter Ronecker , Matthew Foutter , Amine Elhafsi , Daniele Gammelli , Ihor Barakaiev , Marco Pavone , Daniel Watzenig

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

Cause-and-effect reasoning in video is a significant challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as it requires going beyond surface-level perception to a deeper understanding of causal mechanisms. However, existing benchmarks rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mingfang Zhang , Jingjing Pan , Ashutosh Kumar , Rajat Saini , Mustafa Erdogan , Hsuan-Kung Yang , Caixin Kang , Yifei Huang , Yoichi Sato , Quan Kong

We tackle the complex problem of detecting and recognising anomalies in surveillance videos at the frame level, utilising only video-level supervision. We introduce the novel method AnomalyCLIP, the first to combine Large Language and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Luca Zanella , Benedetta Liberatori , Willi Menapace , Fabio Poiesi , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

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

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

Video anomaly detection (VAD) -- commonly formulated as a multiple-instance learning problem in a weakly-supervised manner due to its labor-intensive nature -- is a challenging problem in video surveillance where the frames of anomaly need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hyekang Kevin Joo , Khoa Vo , Kashu Yamazaki , Ngan Le

Subtle abnormal events in videos often manifest as weak spatio-temporal cues that are easily overlooked by conventional anomaly detection systems. Existing video anomaly detection approaches typically provide coarse binary anomaly decisions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jihao Gu , Kun Li , He Wang , Kaan Akşit

Weakly-Supervised Video Anomaly Detection aims to identify anomalous events using only video-level labels, balancing annotation efficiency with practical applicability. However, existing methods often oversimplify the anomaly space by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Junhee Lee , ChaeBeen Bang , MyoungChul Kim , MyeongAh Cho

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

Current weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WSVAD) task aims to achieve frame-level anomalous event detection with only coarse video-level annotations available. Existing works typically involve extracting global features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Peng Wu , Xuerong Zhou , Guansong Pang , Zhiwei Yang , Qingsen Yan , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) are markedly proficient in deriving visual representations guided by natural language. Recent explorations have utilized LVLMs to tackle zero-shot visual anomaly detection (VAD) challenges by pairing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiaqi Zhu , Shaofeng Cai , Fang Deng , Beng Chin Ooi , Junran Wu

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to automatically analyze spatiotemporal patterns in surveillance videos collected from open spaces to detect anomalous events that may cause harm, such as fighting, stealing, and car accidents. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yang Liu , Siao Liu , Xiaoguang Zhu , Jielin Li , Hao Yang , Liangyu Teng , Juncen Guo , Yan Wang , Dingkang Yang , Jing Liu