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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

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to temporally locate abnormal events in a video. Existing works mostly rely on training deep models to learn the distribution of normality with either video-level supervision, one-class supervision, or in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Luca Zanella , Willi Menapace , Massimiliano Mancini , Yiming Wang , Elisa Ricci

How far are deep models from real-world video anomaly understanding (VAU)? Current works typically emphasize on detecting unexpected occurrences deviated from normal patterns or comprehending anomalous events with interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yating Yu , Congqi Cao , Zhaoying Wang , Weihua Meng , Jie Li , Yuxin Li , Zihao Wei , Zhongpei Shen , Jiajun 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

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

As a crucial element of public security, video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to measure deviations from normal patterns for various events in real-time surveillance systems. However, most existing VAD methods rely on large-scale models to…

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

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

Event-based cameras are neuromorphic sensors capable of efficiently encoding visual information in the form of sparse sequences of events. Being biologically inspired, they are commonly used to exploit some of the computational and power…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Marco Cannici , Marco Ciccone , Andrea Romanoni , Matteo Matteucci

Current weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WSVAD) task aims to achieve frame-level anomalous event detection with only coarse video-level annotations available. Existing works typically involve extracting global features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Peng Wu , Xuerong Zhou , Guansong Pang , Zhiwei Yang , Qingsen Yan , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Traditional visual place recognition (VPR), usually using standard cameras, is easy to fail due to glare or high-speed motion. By contrast, event cameras have the advantages of low latency, high temporal resolution, and high dynamic range,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Kuanxu Hou , Delei Kong , Junjie Jiang , Hao Zhuang , Xinjie Huang , Zheng Fang

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to identify and ground anomalous behaviors or events in videos, serving as a core technology in the fields of intelligent surveillance and public safety. With the advancement of deep learning, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shibo Gao , Peipei Yang , Haiyang Guo , Yangyang Liu , Yi Chen , Shuai Li , Han Zhu , Jian Xu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Linlin Huang

Existing Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) methods typically rely on task-specific training, leading to strong domain dependency and high training costs. Moreover, most existing methods output only scalar anomaly scores, providing limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Hyeongmuk Lim , Youngbum Hur

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) systems can autonomously monitor and identify disturbances, reducing the need for manual labor and associated costs. However, current VAD systems are often limited by their superficial semantic understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jiaqi Tang , Hao Lu , Ruizheng Wu , Xiaogang Xu , Ke Ma , Cheng Fang , Bin Guo , Jiangbo Lu , Qifeng Chen , Ying-Cong Chen

In weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WVAD), where only video-level labels indicating the presence or absence of abnormal events are available, the primary challenge arises from the inherent ambiguity in temporal annotations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yixuan Zhou , Yi Qu , Xing Xu , Fumin Shen , Jingkuan Song , Hengtao Shen

In recent years, proposed studies on time-series anomaly detection (TAD) report high F1 scores on benchmark TAD datasets, giving the impression of clear improvements in TAD. However, most studies apply a peculiar evaluation protocol called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Siwon Kim , Kukjin Choi , Hyun-Soo Choi , Byunghan Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Automatically detecting abnormal events in videos is crucial for modern autonomous systems, yet existing Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) benchmarks lack the scene diversity, balanced anomaly coverage, and temporal complexity needed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jie Li , Hongyi Cai , Mingkang Dong , Muxin Pu , Shan You , Fei Wang , Tao Huang

Video anomaly detection (VAD) -- commonly formulated as a multiple-instance learning problem in a weakly-supervised manner due to its labor-intensive nature -- is a challenging problem in video surveillance where the frames of anomaly need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hyekang Kevin Joo , Khoa Vo , Kashu Yamazaki , Ngan Le

In this paper, Gated-ViGAT, an efficient approach for video event recognition, utilizing bottom-up (object) information, a new frame sampling policy and a gating mechanism is proposed. Specifically, the frame sampling policy uses weighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Nikolaos Gkalelis , Dimitrios Daskalakis , Vasileios Mezaris

Recent advancements in video anomaly understanding (VAU) have opened the door to groundbreaking applications in various fields, such as traffic monitoring and industrial automation. While the current benchmarks in VAU predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Hang Du , Guoshun Nan , Jiawen Qian , Wangchenhui Wu , Wendi Deng , Hanqing Mu , Zhenyan Chen , Pengxuan Mao , Xiaofeng Tao , Jun Liu

Video anomaly understanding (VAU) aims to automatically comprehend unusual occurrences in videos, thereby enabling various applications such as traffic surveillance and industrial manufacturing. While existing VAU benchmarks primarily…