Harnessing Large Language Models for Training-free Video Anomaly Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01014v1
• Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 09:34:55 GMT
• Title: Harnessing Large Language Models for Training-free Video Anomaly Detection
• Authors: Luca Zanella, Willi Menapace, Massimiliano Mancini, Yiming Wang, Elisa Ricci,
• Abstract summary: Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to temporally locate abnormal events in a video. Training-based methods are prone to be domain-specific, thus being costly for practical deployment. We propose LAnguage-based VAD (LAVAD), a method tackling VAD in a novel, training-free paradigm.
• Score: 34.76811491190446
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to temporally locate abnormal events in a video. Existing works mostly rely on training deep models to learn the distribution of normality with either video-level supervision, one-class supervision, or in an unsupervised setting. Training-based methods are prone to be domain-specific, thus being costly for practical deployment as any domain change will involve data collection and model training. In this paper, we radically depart from previous efforts and propose LAnguage-based VAD (LAVAD), a method tackling VAD in a novel, training-free paradigm, exploiting the capabilities of pre-trained large language models (LLMs) and existing vision-language models (VLMs). We leverage VLM-based captioning models to generate textual descriptions for each frame of any test video. With the textual scene description, we then devise a prompting mechanism to unlock the capability of LLMs in terms of temporal aggregation and anomaly score estimation, turning LLMs into an effective video anomaly detector. We further leverage modality-aligned VLMs and propose effective techniques based on cross-modal similarity for cleaning noisy captions and refining the LLM-based anomaly scores. We evaluate LAVAD on two large datasets featuring real-world surveillance scenarios (UCF-Crime and XD-Violence), showing that it outperforms both unsupervised and one-class methods without requiring any training or data collection.

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