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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

Semi-supervised video anomaly detection (VAD) methods formulate the task of anomaly detection as detection of deviations from the learned normal patterns. Previous works in the field (reconstruction or prediction-based methods) suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Mohammad Baradaran , Robert Bergevin

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 in videos refers to the identification of events that do not conform to expected behavior. However, almost all existing methods tackle the problem by minimizing the reconstruction errors of training data, which cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Wen Liu , Weixin Luo , Dongze Lian , Shenghua Gao

Video anomaly detection (VAD) has been intensively studied for years because of its potential applications in intelligent video systems. Existing unsupervised VAD methods tend to learn normality from training sets consisting of only normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Mengyang Zhao , Xinhua Zeng , Yang Liu , Jing Liu , Di Li , Xing Hu , Chengxin Pang

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) 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

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

Spatial consistency is a fundamental property of the visual world and a key requirement for models that aim to understand physical reality. Despite recent advances, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often struggle to reason about 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Om Khangaonkar , Hadi J. Rad , Hamed Pirsiavash

This review article surveys the current progresses made toward video-based anomaly detection. We address the most fundamental aspect for video anomaly detection, that is, video feature representation. Much research works have been done in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Yong Shean Chong , Yong Haur Tay

Anomaly detection in videos is challenging due to the complexity, noise, and diverse nature of activities such as violence, shoplifting, and vandalism. While deep learning (DL) has shown excellent performance in this area, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Sabah Abdulazeez Jebur , Khalid A. Hussein , Haider Kadhim Hoomod , Laith Alzubaidi , Ahmed Ali Saihood , YuanTong Gu

We address an anomaly detection setting in which training sequences are unavailable and anomalies are scored independently of temporal ordering. Current algorithms in anomaly detection are based on the classical density estimation approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Allison Del Giorno , J. Andrew Bagnell , Martial Hebert

Anomaly detection is a popular and vital task in various research contexts, which has been studied for several decades. To ensure the safety of people's lives and assets, video surveillance has been widely deployed in various public spaces,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Jing Ren , Feng Xia , Yemeng Liu , Ivan Lee

The development of unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) relies on technologies in the field of signal processing. Since the anomaly is quite ambiguous and unbounded, different detection demands may often be raised even in one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Kai Cheng , Xinzhe Li , Lijuan Che

The increasing popularity of compact and inexpensive cameras, e.g.~dash cameras, body cameras, and cameras equipped on robots, has sparked a growing interest in detecting anomalies within dynamic scenes recorded by moving cameras. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Runyu Jiao , Yi Wan , Fabio Poiesi , Yiming Wang

Anomaly detection in videos is a problem that has been studied for more than a decade. This area has piqued the interest of researchers due to its wide applicability. Because of this, there has been a wide array of approaches that have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Jessie James P. Suarez , Prospero C. Naval

The rapid advancement of vision-language models (VLMs) has established a new paradigm in video anomaly detection (VAD): leveraging VLMs to simultaneously detect anomalies and provide comprehendible explanations for the decisions. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Muchao Ye , Weiyang Liu , Pan He

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

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD), which aims to detect anomalies that deviate from expectation, has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Existing advancements in VAD primarily focus on model architectures and training strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zihao Liu , Xiaoyu Wu , Wenna Li , Linlin Yang , Shengjin Wang

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