SlowFastVAD: Video Anomaly Detection via Integrating Simple Detector and RAG-Enhanced Vision-Language Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10320v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:30:03 GMT
• Title: SlowFastVAD: Video Anomaly Detection via Integrating Simple Detector and RAG-Enhanced Vision-Language Model
• Authors: Zongcan Ding, Haodong Zhang, Peng Wu, Guansong Pang, Zhiwei Yang, Peng Wang, Yanning Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to identify unexpected events in videos and has wide applications in safety-critical domains.<n> vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, offering new opportunities for anomaly detection.<n>We propose SlowFastVAD, a hybrid framework that integrates a fast anomaly detector with a slow anomaly detector.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to identify unexpected events in videos and has wide applications in safety-critical domains. While semi-supervised methods trained on only normal samples have gained traction, they often suffer from high false alarm rates and poor interpretability. Recently, vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, offering new opportunities for explainable anomaly detection. However, their high computational cost and lack of domain adaptation hinder real-time deployment and reliability. Inspired by dual complementary pathways in human visual perception, we propose SlowFastVAD, a hybrid framework that integrates a fast anomaly detector with a slow anomaly detector (namely a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) enhanced VLM), to address these limitations. Specifically, the fast detector first provides coarse anomaly confidence scores, and only a small subset of ambiguous segments, rather than the entire video, is further analyzed by the slower yet more interpretable VLM for elaborate detection and reasoning. Furthermore, to adapt VLMs to domain-specific VAD scenarios, we construct a knowledge base including normal patterns based on few normal samples and abnormal patterns inferred by VLMs. During inference, relevant patterns are retrieved and used to augment prompts for anomaly reasoning. Finally, we smoothly fuse the anomaly confidence of fast and slow detectors to enhance robustness of anomaly detection. Extensive experiments on four benchmarks demonstrate that SlowFastVAD effectively combines the strengths of both fast and slow detectors, and achieves remarkable detection accuracy and interpretability with significantly reduced computational overhead, making it well-suited for real-world VAD applications with high reliability requirements.

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