arXiv Computer Vision

A Unified Score Matching Paradigm for Video Anomaly Detection and Anticipation

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.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

Probe-VAD: Ordinal Likelihood Probing for Training-Free Video Anomaly Detection

Probe‑VAD introduces an ordinal binary‑probing framework that leverages frozen vision‑language models for training‑free video anomaly detection. By querying ten ordered severity thresholds and extracting YES/NO continuation likelihoods, it builds a cumulative severity profile that is converted into a continuous anomaly score with isotonic projection for ordinal consistency. Experiments on public benchmarks show that this simple interface yields superior performance at low computational cost, avoiding the limitations of caption‑based compression or restricted numerical scoring.

By Jiawei Gu, Qilin Zhao, Tengkuo Guo, Zhiming Zhong, Shuangqing Zhang, Fan Lyu, Fang Zhao, Guo-Sen Xie, Caifeng Shan
arXiv AI
Jul 13

Event Stream based Multi-Modal Video Anomaly Detection: A Benchmark Dataset and Algorithms

arXiv:2607. 09114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video anomaly detection (VAD) is critical for automated surveillance but remains fragile under challenging conditions such as illumination variations, fast motion, and complex backgrounds when relying solely on visible light videos.

By Peipei Zhu, Yueqing Niu, Lin Zhu, Guanchong Niu, Yang Yu, Zheng Li
arXiv AI
Sep 3

Fine-Grained Anomaly Perception in Wild UGC-Enhanced Images: A Comprehensive Dataset and Difference-Fusion Framework

The paper introduces a new task called Quality Anomaly Perception for UGC Image Enhancement (UEAP) and presents the first benchmark dataset, UEAP-4k, featuring fine‑grained annotations of anomaly categories, locations, and severity levels in real‑world user‑generated content. It proposes the Difference‑Fusion Anomaly Perception Method (DFAP‑UGC), which fuses explicit differences between enhanced images and their references using dense spatial querying, regional verification, and quality‑aware ranking to robustly identify localized anomalies. A Locality‑Aware Dynamic Task Prioritization (LADTP) training strategy is also introduced to enable efficient end‑to‑end learning without multi‑stage overhead, and experiments demonstrate that DFAP‑UGC outperforms adapted classical baselines.

By Yan Zhong, Gefei Chen, Qiufang Ma, Zhen Wang, Zhiwei Fan, Lei Shi, Tingting Jiang
arXiv AI
Oct 2

Cog-VADU: A Training-Free Cognitive Reasoning Framework for Video Anomaly Detection and Understanding

Cog-VADU is a training‑free framework that transforms video anomaly detection into a sequential cognitive reasoning task. It uses Chain‑of‑Anomaly Detection Thought Prompting (CoADTP) to create a recurrent reasoning chain across video segments, preserving temporal memory and distinguishing complex anomalies from high‑motion normal activities. A cross‑modal re‑ranking stage aligns textual rationales with visual embeddings to enforce semantic consistency and temporal coherence, yielding competitive zero‑shot performance on multiple VAD benchmarks.

By Mohd Ubaid Wani, Sara Atito, Josef Kittler, Muhammad Awais
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Adaptive Multi-Granularity Temporal Modeling for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

The paper introduces an adaptive temporal modeling framework for weakly supervised video anomaly detection that addresses the limitations of rigid Multiple Instance Learning approaches. It presents a Temporal Refinement Module using dynamic positional encoding and a learnable class token to capture long‑range dependencies, and an Event Segmentation Module that identifies event boundaries via temporal discontinuity analysis to produce discriminative event‑level representations. An adaptive similarity‑based fusion strategy replaces fixed top‑k heuristics, dynamically integrating snippet‑level and event‑level anomaly scores into video‑level predictions, and the method outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines on two benchmarks.

By Changyi Li, Yu Xiao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 5

VQ-VAD: Vector-quantized Motion Representation Learning for Human-centric Video Anomaly Detection

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.