arXiv Computer Vision

What, Where, and How: Probing Spatiotemporal Representations in Video Foundation Models

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 22

MS2CAST: A Video Anomaly Detection Framework via Multi-Scale Spatial Cross-Attention and Efficient Spatiotemporal Networks

MS2CAST is a semi‑supervised video anomaly detection framework that fuses multi‑scale cross‑attention between a vision transformer (MViTv2‑S) and a CNN (ConvNeXt‑T) for spatial encoding, and replaces optical flow with two interchangeable spatiotemporal modules—SwinLSTM and VMRNN—operating in latent space. The training objective combines L1 loss, Gradient Difference Loss, and Multi‑Scale SSIM to enforce pixel‑level accuracy, sharpness, and structural fidelity. Experiments on UCSD Ped2, CUHK Avenue, and ShanghaiTech show competitive ROC‑AUC scores while using less than 1 GB of GPU memory.

By Ali Safaei, Mohammad Kazemi
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Hyperspectral Trajectory Image for Multi-Month Trajectory Anomaly Detection

The paper introduces TITAnD, a Trajectory Image Transformer that converts dense and sparse GPS trajectories into a Hyperspectral Trajectory Image (HTI) and applies vision-based classification and segmentation for anomaly detection. It employs a Cyclic Factorized Transformer (CFT) that splits attention along within-day and across-day axes, drastically reducing computational cost and enabling multi-month analysis. Empirical results show TITAnD outperforms existing sparse and dense benchmarks, achieving higher AUC-PR and faster inference than comparable Transformers.

By Md Awsafur Rahman, Chandrakanth Gudavalli, Hardik Prajapati, B. S. Manjunath
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 Machine Learning
Oct 23

MoG-VLM: Efficient Video Anomaly Detection through Motion-Guided Vision-Language Models

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
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.