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Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to identify and locate deviations from normal patterns in video sequences. Traditional methods often struggle with substantial computational demands and a reliance on extensive labeled datasets, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhaolin Cai , Fan Li , Ziwei Zheng , Yanjun Qin

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is an open-set recognition task, which is usually formulated as a one-class classification (OCC) problem, where training data is comprised of videos with normal instances while test data contains both normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ayush K. Rai , Tarun Krishna , Feiyan Hu , Alexandru Drimbarean , Kevin McGuinness , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

Video anomaly detection (VAD) holds immense importance across diverse domains such as surveillance, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. While numerous surveys focus on conventional VAD methods, they often lack depth in exploring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Moshira Abdalla , Sajid Javed , Muaz Al Radi , Anwaar Ulhaq , Naoufel Werghi

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) often learns the distribution of normal samples and detects the anomaly through measuring significant deviations, but the undesired generalization may reconstruct a few anomalies thus suppressing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiahao Lyu , Minghua Zhao , Jing Hu , Xuewen Huang , Shuangli Du , Cheng Shi , Zhiyong Lv

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

Towards open-ended Video Anomaly Detection (VAD), existing methods often exhibit biased detection when faced with challenging or unseen events and lack interpretability. To address these drawbacks, we propose Holmes-VAD, a novel framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Huaxin Zhang , Xiaohao Xu , Xiang Wang , Jialong Zuo , Chuchu Han , Xiaonan Huang , Changxin Gao , Yuehuan Wang , Nong Sang

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to detect anomalies that deviate from what is expected. In open-world scenarios, the expected events may change as requirements change. For example, not wearing a mask may be considered abnormal during a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zihao Liu , Xiaoyu Wu , Jianqin Wu , Xuxu Wang , Linlin Yang

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) requires detection models trained using auxiliary data to detect anomalies without any training sample in a target dataset. It is a crucial task when training data is not accessible due to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Qihang Zhou , Guansong Pang , Yu Tian , Shibo He , Jiming Chen

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of single-scene, fully unsupervised video anomaly detection (VAD), where raw videos containing both normal and abnormal events are used directly for training and testing without any labels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuang Geng , Junkai Zhou , Kang Yang , Pan He , Zhuoyang Zhou , Jose C. Principe , Joel Harley , Ivan Ruchkin

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) finds widespread applications in security surveillance, traffic monitoring, industrial monitoring, and healthcare. Despite extensive research efforts, there remains a lack of concise reviews that provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Liyun Zhu , Lei Wang , Arjun Raj , Tom Gedeon , Chen Chen

Most cross-domain unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) works assume that at least few task-relevant target domain training data are available for adaptation from the source to the target domain. However, this requires laborious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Abhishek Aich , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

Zero-Shot Video Anomaly Detection (ZS-VAD) requires temporally localizing anomalies without target domain training data, which is a crucial task due to various practical concerns, e.g., data privacy or new surveillance deployments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Canhui Tang , Sanping Zhou , Haoyue Shi , Le Wang

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

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

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

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

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

The rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have spurred growing interest in LLM-based video anomaly detection (VAD). However, existing approaches predominantly focus on video-level anomaly question answering or offline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Zhiwei Yang , Chen Gao , Jing Liu , Peng Wu , Guansong Pang , Mike Zheng Shou

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is crucial for intelligent surveillance, but a significant challenge lies in identifying complex anomalies, which are events defined by intricate relationships and temporal dependencies among multiple entities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mohammad Mahdi Hemmatyar , Mahdi Jafari , Mohammad Amin Yousefi , Mohammad Reza Nemati , Mobin Azadani , Hamid Reza Rastad , Amirmohammad Akbari