arXiv Computer Vision

Adapting Visualization Techniques for Time-Series Anomaly Detection: From Convolutional Neural Networks to Convolutional-Recurrent Neural Networks

The paper investigates how to adapt visualization techniques—such as saliency maps and Grad‑CAM—to convolutional‑recurrent neural networks (CNN+RNN) used for time‑series anomaly detection in video data. It combines VGG19 for feature extraction with a GRU for sequential analysis, noting that the TimeDistributed layer complicates gradient propagation and weakens the link between spatial and temporal information, thereby reducing the effectiveness of standard visualization methods. The authors propose adaptations of these techniques to better interpret models that incorporate a temporal dimension, highlighting both the challenges and the potential of extending static‑image interpretation strategies to temporal models.

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
Jul 2

PaAno: Patch-Based Representation Learning for Time-Series Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2602. 01359v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although recent studies on time-series anomaly detection have increasingly adopted ever-larger neural network architectures such as transformers and foundation models, they incur high computational costs and memory usage, making them impractical for real-time and resource-constrained scenarios.

By Jinju Park, Seokho Kang
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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 24

Expresso-AI: Explainable Video-Based Deep Learning Models for Depression Diagnosis

Given the widespread prevalence of depression and its consequential impact on individuals and society, it is crucial to obtain objective measures for early diagnosis and intervention. As a multidisciplinary topic, these objective measures should be interpretable and accessible to health care professionals, ensuring effective collaboration and treatment planning in the realm of mental health care.