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In recent years, Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) has gained significant attention due to its ability to identify defects using only normal images during training. Many VAD models work without supervision but are still able to provide visual…

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Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is crucial for applications such as security surveillance and autonomous driving. However, existing VAD methods provide little rationale behind detection, hindering public trust in real-world deployments. In…

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Video anomaly detection (VAD) plays a critical role in public safety applications such as intelligent surveillance. However, the rarity, unpredictability, and high annotation cost of real-world anomalies make it difficult to scale VAD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Suhang Cai , Xiaohao Peng , Chong Wang , Xiaojie Cai , Jiangbo Qian

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has emerged as a pivotal task in computer vision, with broad relevance across multiple fields. Recent advances in deep learning have driven significant progress in this area, yet the field remains fragmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Armin Danesh Pazho , Hamed Tabkhi

Training-free video anomaly detection (VAD) has recently emerged as a scalable alternative to supervised approaches, yet existing methods largely rely on static prompting and geometry-agnostic feature fusion. As a result, anomaly inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ali Zia , Usman Ali , Muhammad Umer Ramzan , Hamza Abid , Abdul Rehman , Wei Xiang

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

The collection and detection of video anomaly data has long been a challenging problem due to its rare occurrence and spatio-temporal scarcity. Existing video anomaly detection (VAD) methods under perform in open-world scenarios. Key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zunkai Dai , Ke Li , Jiajia Liu , Jie Yang , Yuanyuan Qiao

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) automates the identification of unusual events, such as security threats in surveillance videos. In real-world applications, VAD models must effectively operate in cross-domain settings, identifying rare…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Yashika Jain , Ali Dabouei , Min Xu

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

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) 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

The impressive achievements of generative models in creating high-quality videos have raised concerns about digital integrity and privacy vulnerabilities. Recent works of AI-generated content detection have been widely studied in the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Qingyuan Liu , Yun-Yun Tsai , Ruijian Zha , Victoria Li , Pengyuan Shi , Chengzhi Mao , Junfeng Yang

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

Recent video anomaly detection research has expanded rapidly with an emphasis on general models of normality intended to work across many different scenes. While this focus has led to improvements in scalability and multi-scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Furkan Mumcu , Michael J. Jones , Anoop Cherian , Yasin Yilmaz

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for video anomaly detection (VAD) due to their strong visual reasoning ability and natural language-based explainability. In this paper, we aim to address a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mitchell Piehl , Muchao Ye

Latent Action Models (LAMs) have rapidly gained traction as an important component in the pre-training pipelines of leading Vision-Language-Action models. However, they fail when observations contain action-correlated distractors, often…

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) involves identifying the temporal intervals that contain anomalous events in untrimmed videos, where only video-level annotations are provided as supervisory signals. However, a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yu Wang , Shengjie Zhao

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) is tasked with pinpointing temporal intervals containing anomalous events within untrimmed videos, utilizing only video-level annotations. However, a significant challenge arises due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yu Wang , Shiwei Chen

Explainable video anomaly detection (VAD) is crucial for safety-critical applications, yet even with recent progress, much of the research still lacks spatial grounding, making the explanations unverifiable. This limitation is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Inpyo Song , Minjun Joo , Joonhyung Kwon , Eunji Jeon , Jangwon Lee

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) automatically identifies anomalous events from video, mitigating the need for human operators in large-scale surveillance deployments. However, two fundamental obstacles hinder real-world adoption: domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Hyogun Lee , Haksub Kim , Ig-Jae Kim , Yonghun Choi