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UAV based surveillance is gaining much interest worldwide due to its extensive applications in monitoring wildlife, urban planning, disaster management, campus security, etc. These videos are analyzed for strange/odd/anomalous patterns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Girisha S , Ujjwal Verma , Manohara Pai M M , Radhika M Pai

Most models for weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) rely on multiple instance learning, aiming to distinguish normal and abnormal snippets without specifying the type of anomaly. However, the ambiguous nature of anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chenchen Tao , Xiaohao Peng , Chong Wang , Jiafei Wu , Puning Zhao , Jun Wang , Jiangbo Qian

The considerable significance of Anomaly Detection (AD) problem has recently drawn the attention of many researchers. Consequently, the number of proposed methods in this research field has been increased steadily. AD strongly correlates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Bahram Mohammadi , Mahmood Fathy , Mohammad Sabokrou

Understanding abnormal events in videos is a vital and challenging task that has garnered significant attention in a wide range of applications. Although current video understanding Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yingxian Chen , Jiahui Liu , Ruidi Fan , Yanwei Li , Chirui Chang , Shizhen Zhao , Wilton W. T. Fok , Xiaojuan Qi , Yik-Chung Wu

This paper investigates the performance of diffusion models for video anomaly detection (VAD) within the most challenging but also the most operational scenario in which the data annotations are not used. As being sparse, diverse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Anil Osman Tur , Nicola Dall'Asen , Cigdem Beyan , Elisa Ricci

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Arianna Stropeni , Valentina Zaccaria , Francesco Borsatti , Davide Dalle Pezze , Manuel Barusco , Gian Antonio Susto

Video anomaly understanding (VAU) aims to provide detailed interpretation and semantic comprehension of anomalous events within videos, addressing limitations of traditional methods that focus solely on detecting and localizing anomalies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Ying Cheng , Yu-Ho Lin , Min-Hung Chen , Fu-En Yang , Shang-Hong Lai

The rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has significantly impacted various multimodal tasks. However, these models face challenges in tasks that require spatial understanding within 3D environments. Efforts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Duo Zheng , Shijia Huang , Liwei Wang

Open Set Video Anomaly Detection (OpenVAD) aims to identify abnormal events from video data where both known anomalies and novel ones exist in testing. Unsupervised models learned solely from normal videos are applicable to any testing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yuansheng Zhu , Wentao Bao , Qi Yu

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

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to detect anomalies that deviate from what is expected. In open-world scenarios, the expected events may change as requirements change. For example, not wearing a mask may be considered abnormal during a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zihao Liu , Xiaoyu Wu , Jianqin Wu , Xuxu Wang , Linlin Yang

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

Safe autonomous systems in complex environments require robust road anomaly segmentation to identify unknown obstacles. However, existing approaches often rely on pixel-level statistics to determine whether a region appears anomalous. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhuolin He , Jiacheng Tang , Jian Pu , Xiangyang Xue

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong general-purpose reasoning but remain limited in physics-grounded anomaly detection, where causal understanding of dynamics is essential. Existing VLMs, trained predominantly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yao Gu , Xiaohao Xu , Yingna Wu

How much scene context a single object carries is a well-studied question in human scene perception, yet how this capacity is organized in vision-language models (VLMs) remains poorly understood, with direct implications for the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Martina G. Vilas , Timothy Schaumlöffel , Gemma Roig

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is an open-set recognition task, which is usually formulated as a one-class classification (OCC) problem, where training data is comprised of videos with normal instances while test data contains both normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ayush K. Rai , Tarun Krishna , Feiyan Hu , Alexandru Drimbarean , Kevin McGuinness , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

This paper addresses video anomaly detection problem for videosurveillance. Due to the inherent rarity and heterogeneity of abnormal events, the problem is viewed as a normality modeling strategy, in which our model learns object-centric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Khalil Bergaoui , Yassine Naji , Aleksandr Setkov , Angélique Loesch , Michèle Gouiffès , Romaric Audigier

Anomaly Detection is an important problem within computer vision, having variety of real-life applications. Yet, the current set of solutions to this problem entail known, systematic shortcomings. Specifically, contemporary surface Anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Riya Sadrani , Hrishikesh Sharma , Ayush Bachan

Video anomaly detection is a challenging task because of diverse abnormal events. To this task, methods based on reconstruction and prediction are wildly used in recent works, which are built on the assumption that learning on normal data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Hongyong Wang , Xinjian Zhang , Su Yang , Weishan Zhang

Recent advancements in weakly-supervised video anomaly detection have achieved remarkable performance by applying the multiple instance learning paradigm based on multimodal foundation models such as CLIP to highlight anomalous instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Wenti Yin , Huaxin Zhang , Xiang Wang , Yuqing Lu , Yicheng Zhang , Bingquan Gong , Jialong Zuo , Li Yu , Changxin Gao , Nong Sang