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Abnormal Event Detection In Video
13 papers with code · 2 benchmarks · 4 datasets archive 2025-07-28
Abnormal Event Detection In Video is a challenging task in computer vision, as the definition of what an abnormal event looks like depends very much on the context. For instance, a car driving by on the street is regarded as a normal event, but if the car enters a pedestrian area, this is regarded as an abnormal event. A person running on a sports court (normal event) versus running outside from a bank (abnormal event) is another example. Although what is considered abnormal depends on the context, we can generally agree that abnormal events should be unexpected events that occur less often than familiar (normal) events
Source: Unmasking the abnormal events in video
Image: Ravanbakhsh et al
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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
2 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 2 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.
| Dataset | Best model (first row in archive order) | Paper | Code | Syntology | Compare |
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| UBI-Fights (6 rows) | GMM | Weakly and Partially Supervised Learning Frameworks for Anomaly Detection | code | — | Compare |
| UCSD Ped2 (4 rows) | AI-VAD | An Attribute-based Method for Video Anomaly Detection | code | Syntology ran 2 of 3 samples · 1 unverified | Compare |
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Datasets archive 2025-07-28
4 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.
Subtasks archive 2025-07-28
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Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28
Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28
13 shown of 13 papers with code (17 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.
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12 Jan 2018 9 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 6 samples · 2 unverified · 4 pointer-only (licence)To avoid annotating the anomalous segments or clips in training videos, which is very time consuming, we propose to learn anomaly through the deep multiple instance ranking framework by leveraging weakly labeled…
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6 Jan 2017 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 3 samples · 1 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)We present an efficient method for detecting anomalies in videos.
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1 Dec 2022 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 3 samples · 1 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)Video anomaly detection (VAD) identifies suspicious events in videos, which is critical for crime prevention and homeland security.
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27 Aug 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)Following the standard formulation of abnormal event detection as outlier detection, we propose a background-agnostic framework that learns from training videos containing only normal events.
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15 Apr 2016 2 repositories listedPerceiving meaningful activities in a long video sequence is a challenging problem due to ambiguous definition of 'meaningfulness' as well as clutters in the scene.
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20 Nov 2022 1 repository listedVideo anomaly detection is an ill-posed problem because it relies on many parameters such as appearance, pose, camera angle, background, and more.
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15 Nov 2021 1 repository listedIn this paper, we propose a novel distance-based VAD method to take advantage of all the available normal data efficiently and flexibly.
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3 Jan 2021 1 repository listedThe detection of abnormal events in surveillance footage remains a challenge and has been the scope of various research works.
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15 Nov 2020 1 repository listedTo the best of our knowledge, we are the first to approach anomalous event detection in video as a multi-task learning problem, integrating multiple self-supervised and knowledge distillation proxy tasks in a single…
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23 Jul 2020 1 repository listedThe main objective is to provide several solutions to the mentioned problems, by focusing on analyzing previous state-of-the-art methods and presenting an extensive overview to clarify the concepts employed on capturing…
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11 Dec 2018 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 21 samples · 21 unverifiedMost existing approaches formulate abnormal event detection as an outlier detection task, due to the scarcity of anomalous data during training.
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29 Oct 2018 1 repository listedSecurity surveillance is critical to social harmony and people's peaceful life.
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26 Jul 2017 1 repository listedNext, features are extracted from each frame using a convolutional neural network (CNN) that is trained to classify between normal and abnormal frames.
Syntology lines on 5 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.
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