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Generative Neural Networks for Anomaly Detection in Crowded Scenes

29 Oct 2018archive 2025-07-28

Tian Wang, Meina Qiao, Zhiwei Lin, Ce Li, Hichem Snoussi, Zhe Liu, Chang Choi

Security surveillance is critical to social harmony and people's peaceful life. It has a great impact on strengthening social stability and life safeguarding. Detecting anomaly timely, effectively and efficiently in video surveillance remains challenging. This paper proposes a new approach, called S 2 -VAE, for anomaly detection from video data. The S 2 -VAE consists of two proposed neural networks: a Stacked Fully Connected Variational AutoEncoder (S F -VAE) and a Skip Convolutional VAE (S C -VAE). The S F -VAE is a shallow generative network to obtain a model like Gaussian mixture to fit the distribution of the actual data. The S C -VAE, as a key component of S 2 -VAE, is a deep generative network to take advantages of CNN, VAE and skip connections. Both S F -VAE and S C -VAE are efficient and effective generative networks and they can achieve better performance for detecting both local abnormal events and global abnormal events. The proposed S 2 -VAE is evaluated using four public datasets. The experimental results show that the S 2 -VAE outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms. The code is available publicly at https://github.com/tianwangbuaa/.

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Abnormal Event Detection In VideoAnomaly DetectionSemi-supervised Anomaly Detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Abnormal Event Detection In Video UBI-Fights s2-VAE AUC 0.610 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Abnormal Event Detection In Video UBI-Fights s2-VAE Decidability 0.323 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Abnormal Event Detection In Video UBI-Fights s2-VAE EER 0.427 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection UBI-Fights s2-VAE AUC 0.540 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection UBI-Fights s2-VAE Decidability 0.164 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection UBI-Fights s2-VAE EER 0.475 #5 of 7 Archive leaderboard report

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