arXiv Computer Vision

CoRE: Weakly Supervised Coarse-to-Fine Risk Evidence Learning in Driving Videos

CoRE is a weakly supervised framework that learns fine-grained temporal and entity support for perceived risk in driving videos using only coarse video-level judgments. It first trains a video-level predictor, freezes it, and then uses structured interventions over candidate temporal regions or entity tracks to generate graded prediction-effect targets. These targets train a student model that can predict temporal and entity support directly from the original video, enabling fine-grained evidence localization without requiring detailed annotations.

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
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Parser-Free VLM Verification for Federated Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

The paper proposes a lightweight federated multiple‑instance learning (MIL) framework that trains only a compact MIL scorer across distributed clients while using a frozen vision‑language model (VLM) to verify high‑scoring video segments post‑hoc. Two VLM feedback interfaces are explored: a parsed text‑generation interface and a logit‑based interface that derives a continuous anomaly score from next‑token Yes/No probabilities. Experiments on UCF‑Crime with InternVL3.5‑2B and Qwen3‑VL‑2B‑Instruct show that the logit interface consistently improves frame‑level AUC and AP over the MIL baseline without requiring temporal post‑processing, whereas the text‑generation interface is more sensitive to prompts, parsers, and model choice.

By S\'ebastien Thuau, Amira Gran, Siba Haidar, Rachid Chelouah
arXiv AI
Jun 24

UniDrive: A Unified Vision-Language and Grounding Framework for Interpretable Risk Understanding in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2606. 24759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for autonomous driving scene understanding, yet existing methods still face a fundamental trade-off between temporal reasoning and spatial precision.

By Xiaowei Gao, Pengxiang Li, Yitai Cheng, Ruihan Xu, James Haworth, Stephen Law, Yun Ye
arXiv AI
Sep 28

CaC: Advancing Video Reward Models via Hierarchical Spatiotemporal Concentrating

The paper introduces CaC, a coarse‑to‑fine anomaly reward model that uses Vision‑Language Models to first scan globally for anomalous time windows, then ground anomalies spatially, and finally reason with structured spatiotemporal Chain‑of‑Thought. It builds the first large‑scale generated video anomaly dataset with detailed annotations and trains the model through a three‑stage progressive paradigm, including reinforcement learning with Group Relative Policy Optimization. Experiments show CaC improves fine‑grained anomaly detection by 25.7% and reduces generated‑video anomalies by 11.7% while enhancing overall video quality.

By Jiyuan Wang, Huan Ouyang, Jiuzhou Lin, Chunyu Lin, Dewen Fan, Boheng Zhang, Haonan Fan, Honglie Wang, Yiyang Fan, Zhenlong Yuan, Zijun Li, Yongrui Heng, Guosheng Lin, Fan Yang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 23

UniDrive: A Unified Vision-Language and Grounding Framework for Interpretable Risk Understanding in Autonomous Driving

Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for autonomous driving scene understanding, yet existing methods still face a fundamental trade-off between temporal reasoning and spatial precision. Models that rely on single-frame or low-resolution inputs often miss small, distant, or partially occluded hazards, while language-centric driving models frequently provide limited grounded evidence for their explanations.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Frame-Level Evaluation in Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection Mostly Measures Video-Level Ranking

The paper investigates how weakly supervised video anomaly detectors, trained with only video‑level labels, are evaluated using frame‑level metrics such as Micro‑AUROC and AP. It shows that these metrics largely measure a detector’s ability to separate different videos rather than correctly ordering anomalous moments within a single video, a phenomenon termed temporal dilution. Experiments demonstrate that a detector can achieve high pooled scores even when it assigns the same score to every frame in a video, indicating that current evaluation practices may overstate temporal localization performance.

By Inpyo Song, Jangwon Lee
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 30

PARSEE-VAD: Efficient Training-Free Online Video Anomaly Detection via Proposition-Aware Reasoning and Streaming Evidence Escalation

PARSEE-VAD is a training‑free online video anomaly detection framework that separates semantic evidence acquisition from score‑state evolution. It uses Proposition‑Aware Reasoning to extract structured propositional evidence from the current causal window and selectively activates more specific queries, while Streaming Evidence Escalation maps this evidence into a compact score‑domain event state and propagates only the bounded state to maintain temporal continuity. Experiments on four benchmarks show strong performance with reduced specialist computation and sparse score‑state propagation, supporting a current‑first principle for streaming multimodal inference.

By Ji Wang, Shuangqing Zhang, Guo-Sen Xie, Fang Zhao
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