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Visual anomaly detection is a strongly application-driven field of research. Consequently, the connection between academia and industry is of paramount importance. In this regard, we present the VAND 3.0 Challenge to showcase current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Lars Heckler-Kram , Ashwin Vaidya , Jan-Hendrik Neudeck , Ulla Scheler , Dick Ameln , Samet Akcay , Paula Ramos

Video anomaly detection research is generally evaluated on short, isolated benchmark videos only a few minutes long. However, in real-world environments, security cameras observe the same scene for months or years at a time, and the notion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Zhengye Yang , Richard Radke

Anomaly detection in videos is a significant yet challenging problem. Previous approaches based on deep neural networks employ either reconstruction-based or prediction-based approaches. Nevertheless, existing reconstruction-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yizhou Wang , Can Qin , Yue Bai , Yi Xu , Xu Ma , Yun Fu

In modern intelligent video surveillance systems, automatic anomaly detection through computer vision analytics plays a pivotal role which not only significantly increases monitoring efficiency but also reduces the burden on live…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Sijie Zhu , Chen Chen , Waqas Sultani

In recent years, many works have addressed the problem of finding never-seen-before anomalies in videos. Yet, most work has been focused on detecting anomalous frames in surveillance videos taken from security cameras. Meanwhile, the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Laura Kart , Niv Cohen

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in tasks requiring a fine-grained understanding of literal meaning in images and text, such as visual question-answering or visual entailment. However, there has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Arkadiy Saakyan , Shreyas Kulkarni , Tuhin Chakrabarty , Smaranda Muresan

In this paper, we analyze the viewpoint stability of foundational models - specifically, their sensitivity to changes in viewpoint- and define instability as significant feature variations resulting from minor changes in viewing angle,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Mateusz Michalkiewicz , Sheena Bai , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Varun Jampani , Guha Balakrishnan

This paper focuses on detecting anomalies in surveillance video using keywords by leveraging foundational models' feature representation generalization capabilities. We present a novel, lightweight pipeline for anomaly classification using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Thomas Foltz

Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) endeavors to pinpoint deviations from the concept of normality in visual data, widely applied across diverse domains, e.g., industrial defect inspection, and medical lesion detection. This survey…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yunkang Cao , Xiaohao Xu , Jiangning Zhang , Yuqi Cheng , Xiaonan Huang , Guansong Pang , Weiming Shen

Human-centric Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to identify human behaviors that deviate from normal. At its core, human-centric VAD faces substantial challenges, such as the complexity of diverse human behaviors, the rarity of anomalies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Armin Danesh Pazho , Shanle Yao , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Babak Rahimi Ardabili , Vinit Katariya , Hamed Tabkhi

Most video-anomaly research stops at frame-wise detection, offering little insight into why an event is abnormal, typically outputting only frame-wise anomaly scores without spatial or semantic context. Recent video anomaly localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Dongheng Lin , Mengxue Qu , Kunyang Han , Jianbo Jiao , Xiaojie Jin , Yunchao Wei

This paper investigates the performance of diffusion models for video anomaly detection (VAD) within the most challenging but also the most operational scenario in which the data annotations are not used. As being sparse, diverse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Anil Osman Tur , Nicola Dall'Asen , Cigdem Beyan , Elisa Ricci

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often yield inconsistent descriptions of the same object across viewpoints, hindering the ability of embodied agents to construct consistent semantic representations over time. Previous methods resolved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tommaso Galliena , Stefano Rosa , Tommaso Apicella , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Lorenzo Natale

Open-world instance-level scene understanding aims to locate and recognize unseen object categories that are not present in the annotated dataset. This task is challenging because the model needs to both localize novel 3D objects and infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Runyu Ding , Jihan Yang , Chuhui Xue , Wenqing Zhang , Song Bai , Xiaojuan Qi

Despite the recent advances in video classification, progress in spatio-temporal action recognition has lagged behind. A major contributing factor has been the prohibitive cost of annotating videos frame-by-frame. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Anurag Arnab , Chen Sun , Arsha Nagrani , Cordelia Schmid

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

Open Vocabulary Video Anomaly Detection (OVVAD) seeks to detect and classify both base and novel anomalies. However, existing methods face two specific challenges related to novel anomalies. The first challenge is detection ambiguity, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Fei Li , Wenxuan Liu , Jingjing Chen , Ruixu Zhang , Yuran Wang , Xian Zhong , Zheng Wang

Video anomaly detection (VAD) in autonomous driving scenario is an important task, however it involves several challenges due to the ego-centric views and moving camera. Due to this, it remains largely under-explored. While recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Utkarsh Tiwari , Snehashis Majhi , Michal Balazia , François Brémond

Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) has gained significant research attention for its ability to identify anomalous images and pinpoint the specific areas responsible for the anomaly. A key advantage of VAD is its unsupervised nature, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Manuel Barusco , Francesco Borsatti , Davide Dalle Pezze , Francesco Paissan , Elisabetta Farella , Gian Antonio Susto

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