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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…

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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) harness comprehensive knowledge spanning text, images, and audio to adeptly tackle complex problems, including zero-shot in-context learning scenarios. This study explores the ability of MLLMs in…

Anomaly detection (AD) is an important machine learning task with many real-world uses, including fraud detection, medical diagnosis, and industrial monitoring. Within natural language processing (NLP), AD helps detect issues like spam,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Tiankai Yang , Yi Nian , Shawn Li , Ruiyao Xu , Yuangang Li , Jiaqi Li , Zhuo Xiao , Xiyang Hu , Ryan Rossi , Kaize Ding , Xia Hu , Yue Zhao

The widespread use of cameras in our society has created an overwhelming amount of video data, far exceeding the capacity for human monitoring. This presents a critical challenge for public safety and security, as the timely detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Pascal Benschop , Cristian Meo , Justin Dauwels , Jelte P. Mense

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to locate events that deviate from normal patterns in videos. Traditional approaches often rely on extensive labeled data and incur high computational costs. Recent tuning-free methods based on Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Zhaolin Cai , Fan Li , Ziwei Zheng , Haixia Bi , Lijun He

This paper presents a novel method that leverages a visual-language model, CLIP, as a data source for zero-shot anomaly detection. Tremendous efforts have been put towards developing anomaly detectors due to their potential industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Masato Tamura

Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently shown promise in detecting anomalies. However, previous approaches are fundamentally limited by their reliance on human-designed prompts and the lack of accessible anomaly samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Pi-Wei Chen , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin , Wei-Han Chen , Jia Ji , Zih-Ching Chen , Feng-Hao Yeh , Chao-Chun Chen

Video Anomaly Detection~(VAD) focuses on identifying anomalies within videos. Supervised methods require an amount of in-domain training data and often struggle to generalize to unseen anomalies. In contrast, training-free methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yihua Shao , Haojin He , Sijie Li , Siyu Chen , Xinwei Long , Fanhu Zeng , Yuxuan Fan , Muyang Zhang , Ziyang Yan , Ao Ma , Xiaochen Wang , Hao Tang , Yan Wang , Shuyan Li

The ability to understand and reason the 3D real world is a crucial milestone towards artificial general intelligence. The current common practice is to finetune Large Language Models (LLMs) with 3D data and texts to enable 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sha Zhang , Di Huang , Jiajun Deng , Shixiang Tang , Wanli Ouyang , Tong He , Yanyong Zhang

Visual anomaly detection (VAD) is crucial in many real-world fields, such as industrial inspection, medical imaging, infrastructure monitoring, and remote sensing. However, the specific anomaly definitions, data modalities, and annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xi Jiang , Yinjie Zhao , Zesheng Yang , Feng Zheng

Universal visual anomaly detection (AD) aims to identify anomaly images and segment anomaly regions towards open and dynamic scenarios, following zero- and few-shot paradigms without any dataset-specific fine-tuning. We have witnessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Bin-Bin Gao , Chengjie Wang

In the progress of industrial anomaly detection, general anomaly detection (GAD) is an emerging trend and also the ultimate goal. Unlike the conventional single- and multi-class AD, general AD aims to train a general AD model that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xincheng Yao , Zefeng Qian , Chao Shi , Jiayang Song , Chongyang Zhang

Zero-shot anomaly detection aims to identify defects in unseen categories without target-specific training. Existing methods usually apply the same feature transformation to all samples, treating normal and anomalous data uniformly despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Muhammad Aqeel , Maham Nazir , Uzair Khan , Marco Cristani , Francesco Setti

Industrial anomaly detection (IAD) is challenging due to the subtle and highly localized nature of many defects, which single-pass vision--language models (VLMs) often fail to capture. Moreover, existing approaches lack mechanisms to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Junwen Miao , Penghui Du , Yingying Fan , Yi Liu , Yu Wang , Runze He , Lida Huang , Yan Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have been proven effective for detecting multi-modal misinformation on social platforms, especially in zero-shot settings with unavailable or delayed annotations. However, a single VLM's capacity falls short in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Wei Jiang , Tong Chen , Wei Yuan , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) requires detecting and localizing anomalies without access to target-class anomaly samples. Mainstream methods rely on vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP: they build hand-crafted or learned prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yanning Hou , Peiyuan Li , Zirui Liu , Yitong Wang , Yanran Ruan , Jianfeng Qiu , Ke Xu

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) exhibit remarkable zero-shot capabilities, yet the internal mechanisms driving their anomaly detection (AD) performance remain poorly understood. Current methods predominantly treat VLMs as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shaotian Li , Shangze Li , Chuancheng Shi , Wenhua Wu , Yanqiu Wu , Xiaohan Yu , Fei Shen , Tat-Seng Chua

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive general competence in video understanding, yet their reliability for real-world Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) remains largely unexplored. Unlike conventional pipelines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shanle Yao , Armin Danesh Pazho , Narges Rashvand , Hamed Tabkhi

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, their performance as embodied agents, which requires multi-round dialogue spatial reasoning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xunyi Zhao , Gengze Zhou , Qi Wu