MoG-VLM is a motion‑guided vision‑language model designed for efficient video anomaly detection. It uses a lightweight motion signal, Temporal Gradient Magnitude, to perform content‑aware sampling and activates dense multi‑frame VLM reasoning only around frames with high anomaly likelihood via a hierarchical dual‑stream design. The method achieves state‑of‑the‑art AUC‑ROC scores on four benchmarks and delivers a 1.31× inference speedup on XD‑Violence.
By Khaled Waleed Dawoud, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Khan Muhammad, Muhammad Haris Khan
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
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
The paper introduces VisAnomBench, a new benchmark that augments public time‑series datasets with high‑quality natural‑language anomaly explanations generated by large vision‑language models. Using this benchmark, the authors fine‑tune a parameter‑efficient VLM called VisAnomReasoner, which achieves significantly higher precision and F1 scores than existing baselines on VisAnomBench and also generalizes well to the TSB‑AD‑U benchmark.
By Xiaona Zhou, Muntasir Wahed, Tianjiao Yu, Constantin Brif, Ismini Lourentzou
arXiv:2606. 17798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the remarkable progress of Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs), current online architectures still struggle to simultaneously process continuous video streams, decide autonomously when to respond, and preserve long-horizon contextual memory.
By Zhenyu Yang, Kairui Zhang, Bing Wang, Shengsheng Qian, Changsheng Xu
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
The paper presents a strictly causal streaming video anomaly detector that updates a fixed‑size state in constant time per frame, eliminating the need for clip buffering or lookahead. Its core is a diagonal linear state‑space recurrence with a decay gate, trained via self‑supervised next‑embedding prediction on a frozen visual backbone. The authors derive a closed‑form link between the recurrence’s decay spectrum and detection delay, validate on UCSD Ped2 and CUHK Avenue, and report real‑time latency on Apple M3 Pro hardware (≈0.75 ms per frame).
By Yogesh Kumar
Efficient Zero‑Shot Video Anomaly Detection via Signal‑Aware Adaptive Fusion (SAAF) introduces a framework that leverages dual‑signal adaptive sampling—delta and drift signals—to detect sudden and gradual anomalies without training data. It employs a threshold‑gated cascaded architecture that first applies lightweight frame‑level scoring before invoking costly video‑level analysis only when needed, and a signal‑aware weighted fusion mechanism that adapts score combination based on the triggering signal. Across four benchmarks, SAAF achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on XD‑Violence, MSAD, and ShanghaiTech while delivering significant throughput improvements over prior zero‑shot methods.
By Khaled Waleed Dawoud, Muhammad Haris Khan
arXiv:2608. 11260v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to identify anomalous events and localize their temporal intervals.
By Shibo Gao, Peipei Yang, Xu-Yao Zhang, Linlin Huang
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
arXiv:2606. 14724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video anomaly detection in surveillance settings must balance detection accuracy against real-time throughput, a tension that existing methods address either through stronger feature extractors or more efficient architectures, but rarely both.
By Xinze Zhang
Deploying Vision-Language Models for video anomaly detection confronts a fundamental constraint. Their semantic reasoning demands computational budgets incompatible with the scale of real-world video...