arXiv:2608. 19987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Skeleton-based Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) offers a robust, privacy-preserving solution for identifying abnormal behaviors.
arXiv:2605.21957v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Video anomaly detection is critical for public safety and security, yet remains highly challenging despite extensive research due to large variatio...
Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is inherently challenging due to the scarcity of anomalies and the large visual variability in surveillance footage, including changes in lighting, viewpoint, and human appearance. To mitigate visual noise and address privacy concerns, recent work has shifted to pose-based VAD, which focuses on motion dynamics rather than raw video data.
arXiv:2608. 05069v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is inherently challenging due to the scarcity of anomalies and the large visual variability in surveillance footage, including changes in lighting, viewpoint, and human appearance.
The paper introduces a lightweight two‑stage system for real‑time video anomaly detection. First, YOLO v11n‑pose detects people and extracts seventeen skeletal keypoints in a single forward pass. Second, each cropped person region is encoded with CLIP ViT‑B/32 and compared via cosine similarity to predefined textual descriptions of anomalous behaviors, removing the need for optical flow, separate pose estimators, or density‑based scoring. Experiments on CUHK Avenue, ShanghaiTech Campus, and a custom indoor dataset achieve about 51 FPS on an NVIDIA Titan XP, a 3.36× speedup over a multi‑feature baseline, while preserving high frame‑level AUROC scores (89.26%, 70.26%, and 84.13%).
arXiv:2608.29891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised skeleton-based temporal action segmentation is a crucial task for understanding human behavior in long untrimmed sequences. Recent approac...
The paper introduces Uni-DSM, a unified score-driven framework that uses denoising score matching to model video anomaly patterns for both detection and anticipation. It employs a shared noise-conditioned score transformer backbone with scene-dependent embeddings and motion-aware weighting, and differentiates between VAD and VAA through autoregressive denoising and a self-distilled denoising mechanism. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show state‑of‑the‑art performance for both tasks while maintaining high efficiency.
Video anomaly detection (VAD) is a fundamental and safety-critical task in computer vision. Recent generative approaches detect anomalies from a distributional perspective, but remain limited by local...
The paper investigates whether detailed articulated human pose provides more discriminative power than coarse spatial relationships for early violence detection. By fixing the downstream pipeline and comparing five interaction representations—including bounding‑box geometry, handcrafted pose analogues, enriched pose descriptors, and a learned joint encoder—the study finds that pose‑based representations do not outperform coarse geometry. When visual encoders are frozen and evaluated on larger datasets, person‑crop appearance and whole‑frame context outperform geometry, but cropping to interacting people offers no advantage over encoding the entire frame. The authors further demonstrate that pre‑onset frames contain source‑related artifacts (e.g., title cards, watermarks) that contribute significantly to discrimination, suggesting that benchmark performance may reflect these artifacts rather than true event evidence.
arXiv:2412.03044v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Video anomaly detection (VAD) is a vital yet complex open-set task in computer vision, commonly tackled through reconstruction-based methods. Howev...
The paper introduces a latent dataset distillation framework for human motion prediction, addressing the limitations of traditional gradient matching by incorporating a learned motion prior. Motions are compressed using a residual‑quantized variational autoencoder, and distillation updates only a latent bank while keeping the decoder frozen, ensuring synthetic motions remain plausible. Experiments on Human3.6M, CMU, and 3DPW datasets demonstrate that this method outperforms direct gradient matching in most settings and yields more realistic synthetic motions.
arXiv:2607. 08725v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in 3D human pose estimation has made markerless recovery of skeletal motion increasingly accurate and scalable.
arXiv:2512.12703v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Extracting human motion from large-scale web videos offers a scalable solution to the data scarcity issue in character animation. However, so...