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Large multimodal models (LMMs) exhibit strong task generalization capabilities, offering new opportunities for zero-shot visual anomaly segmentation (ZSAS). However, existing LMM-based segmentation approaches still face fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhen Qu , Xian Tao , Xiaoyi Bao , Dingrong Wang , ShiChen Qu , Zhengtao Zhang , Xingang Wang

Detecting anomalies in traffic scenes is crucial for ensuring safety in autonomous driving, yet collecting representative anomalous data remains challenging. Existing anomaly detection methods are highly specialized and rely on normality as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Albert Schotschneider , Daniel Bogdoll , Svetlana Pavlitska , Ahmed Abouelazm , Johann Marius Zoellner

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

Recently, large vision and language models have shown their success when adapting them to many downstream tasks. In this paper, we present a unified framework named CLIP-ADA for Anomaly Detection by Adapting a pre-trained CLIP model. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yuxuan Cai , Xinwei He , Dingkang Liang , Ao Tong , Xiang Bai

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has traditionally been framed as binary classification or outlier detection, providing neither interpretable reasoning nor precise spatial localization of anomalous events. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sakshi Agarwal , Aishik Konwer , Ankit Parag Shah

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to identify unexpected events in videos and has wide applications in safety-critical domains. While semi-supervised methods trained on only normal samples have gained traction, they often suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zongcan Ding , Haodong Zhang , Peng Wu , Guansong Pang , Zhiwei Yang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Within the context of autonomous driving, encountering unknown objects becomes inevitable during deployment in the open world. Therefore, it is crucial to equip standard semantic segmentation models with anomaly awareness. Many previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Dan Zhang , Kaspar Sakmann , William Beluch , Robin Hutmacher , Yumeng Li

Recent advancements in large-scale visual-language pre-trained models have led to significant progress in zero-/few-shot anomaly detection within natural image domains. However, the substantial domain divergence between natural and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Chaoqin Huang , Aofan Jiang , Jinghao Feng , Ya Zhang , Xinchao Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Zero-shot anomaly detection aims to detect and localise abnormal regions in the image without access to any in-domain training images. While recent approaches leverage vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, to transfer high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Matic Fučka , Vitjan Zavrtanik , Danijel Skočaj

Visual anomaly detection aims to learn normality from normal images, but existing approaches are fragmented across various tasks: defect detection, semantic anomaly detection, multi-class anomaly detection, and anomaly clustering. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yujin Lee , Harin Lim , Seoyoon Jang , Hyunsoo Yoon

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to localize abnormal events on the timeline of long-range surveillance videos. Anomaly-scoring-based methods have been prevailing for years but suffer from the high complexity of thresholding and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Hui Lv , Qianru Sun

Visual anomaly detection in multi-class settings poses significant challenges due to the diversity of object categories, the scarcity of anomalous examples, and the presence of camouflaged defects. In this paper, we propose PromptMAD, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Duncan McCain , Hossein Kashiani , Fatemeh Afghah

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

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show significant promise for end-to-end autonomous driving by leveraging the common sense embedded in language models, their reliance on 2D image cues for complex scene understanding and decision-making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weijie Wei , Zhipeng Luo , Ling Feng , Venice Erin Liong

Detecting road obstacles is essential for autonomous vehicles to navigate dynamic and complex traffic environments safely. Current road obstacle detection methods typically assign a score to each pixel and apply a threshold to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Youssef Shoeb , Nazir Nayal , Azarm Nowzad , Fatma Güney , Hanno Gottschalk

Video anomaly detection is a challenging task not only because it involves solving many sub-tasks such as motion representation, object localization and action recognition, but also because it is commonly considered as an unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Yuqi Ouyang , Victor Sanchez

In the past several years, road anomaly segmentation is actively explored in the academia and drawing growing attention in the industry. The rationale behind is straightforward: if the autonomous car can brake before hitting an anomalous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Beiwen Tian , Huan-ang Gao , Leiyao Cui , Yupeng Zheng , Lan Luo , Baofeng Wang , Rong Zhi , Guyue Zhou , Hao Zhao

Anomaly segmentation plays a pivotal role in identifying atypical objects in images, crucial for hazard detection in autonomous driving systems. While existing methods demonstrate noteworthy results on synthetic data, they often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Ji Zhang , Xiao Wu , Zhi-Qi Cheng , Qi He , Wei Li

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

A single unexpected object on the road can cause an accident or may lead to injuries. To prevent this, we need a reliable mechanism for finding anomalous objects on the road. This task, called anomaly segmentation, can be a stepping stone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Alexey Nekrasov , Alexander Hermans , Lars Kuhnert , Bastian Leibe