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Anomaly detection identifies departures from expected behavior in safety-critical settings. When target-domain normal data are unavailable, zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) leverages vision-language models (VLMs). However, CLIP's coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Alireza Salehi , Ehsan Karami , Sepehr Noey , Sahand Noey , Makoto Yamada , Reshad Hosseini , Mohammad Sabokrou

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

Automating visual inspection in industrial production lines is essential for increasing product quality across various industries. Anomaly detection (AD) methods serve as robust tools for this purpose. However, existing public datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Aimira Baitieva , David Hurych , Victor Besnier , Olivier Bernard

In modern manufacturing, Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) is essential for automated inspection and consistent product quality. Yet, increasingly dynamic and flexible production environments introduce key challenges: First, frequent product…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haoyu Ren , Kay Koehle , Kirill Dorofeev , Darko Anicic

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

Anomaly detection has gained considerable attention due to its broad range of applications, particularly in industrial defect detection. To address the challenges of data collection, researchers have introduced zero-/few-shot anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Chaoqin Huang , Aofan Jiang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) are highly adaptable to various downstream tasks through few-shot learning, making prompt-based anomaly detection a promising approach. Traditional methods depend on human-crafted prompts that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Pi-Wei Chen , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin , Jia Ji , Feng-Hao Yeh , Zih-Ching Chen , Chao-Chun Chen

Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection (ZSAD) seeks to identify anomalies from arbitrary novel categories, offering a scalable and annotation-efficient solution. Traditionally, most ZSAD works have been based on the CLIP model, which performs anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jingyi Yuan , Jianxiong Ye , Wenkang Chen , Chenqiang Gao

Current state-of-the-art multi-class unsupervised anomaly detection (MUAD) methods rely on training encoder-decoder models to reconstruct anomaly-free features. We first show these approaches have an inherent fidelity-stability dilemma in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xingwu Zhang , Guanxuan Li , Paul Henderson , Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa , Zijun Long

Video anomaly detection is of critical practical importance to a variety of real applications because it allows human attention to be focused on events that are likely to be of interest, in spite of an otherwise overwhelming volume of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Guansong Pang , Cheng Yan , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel , Xiao Bai

Recent advances in Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) have introduced sophisticated algorithms leveraging embeddings generated by pre-trained feature extractors. Inspired by these developments, we investigate the adaptation of such algorithms…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are powerful open-set reasoners, yet their direct use as anomaly detectors in video surveillance is fragile: without calibrated anomaly priors, they alternate between missed detections and hallucinated false…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Mohamed Eltahir , Ahmed O. Ibrahim , Obada Siralkhatim , Tabarak Abdallah , Sondos Mohamed

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

Audio-visual zero-shot learning aims to recognize unseen classes based on paired audio-visual sequences. Recent methods mainly focus on learning multi-modal features aligned with class names to enhance the generalization ability to unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Haoxing Chen , Yaohui Li , Yan Hong , Zizheng Huang , Zhuoer Xu , Zhangxuan Gu , Jun Lan , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang

Semi-supervised anomaly detection~(SSAD) is a task where normal data and a limited number of anomalous data are available for training. In practical situations, SSAD methods suffer adapting to domain shifts, since anomalous data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Tomoya Nishida , Takashi Endo , Yohei Kawaguchi

Video Anomaly Detection(VAD) has been traditionally tackled in two main methodologies: the reconstruction-based approach and the prediction-based one. As the reconstruction-based methods learn to generalize the input image, the model merely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Joo-Yeon Lee , Woo-Jeoung Nam , Seong-Whan Lee

We study anomaly detection and introduce an algorithm that processes variable length, irregularly sampled sequences or sequences with missing values. Our algorithm is fully unsupervised, however, can be readily extended to supervised or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-26 Oguzhan Karaahmetoglu , Fatih Ilhan , Ismail Balaban , Suleyman Serdar Kozat

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

Most existing anomaly detection (AD) methods require a dedicated model for each category. Such a paradigm, despite its promising results, is computationally expensive and inefficient, thereby failing to meet the requirements for realworld…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Chaoqin Huang , Haoyan Guan , Aofan Jiang , Ya Zhang , Michael Spratling , Xinchao Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Object detection traditionally relies on fixed category sets, requiring costly re-training to handle novel objects. While Open-World and Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OWOD and OVOD) improve flexibility, OWOD lacks semantic labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Furkan Mumcu , Michael J. Jones , Anoop Cherian , Yasin Yilmaz