RoboVAD is a large-scale benchmark for video anomaly detection in robotic arm manipulation, featuring cross-domain evaluation where both tasks and anomaly types are unseen during training. The dataset challenges existing VAD methods, with state-of-the-art approaches, including a new method tailored for robotic arms, still achieving less than 70% micro-averaged frame-level AUC in the hardest setting. The authors provide the dataset and code publicly for further research.
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