AVAR-Net: A Lightweight Audio-Visual Anomaly Recognition Framework with a Benchmark Dataset

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13630v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:56:00 GMT
• Title: AVAR-Net: A Lightweight Audio-Visual Anomaly Recognition Framework with a Benchmark Dataset
• Authors: Amjid Ali, Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan, Altaf Hussain, Muhammad Munsif, Adnan Hussain, Sung Wook Baik,
• Abstract summary: Anomaly recognition plays a vital role in surveillance, transportation, healthcare and public safety.<n>Existing approaches rely solely on visual data, making them unreliable under challenging conditions.<n>The absence of large-scale synchronized audio-visual has hindered progress in multimodal anomaly recognition.
• Score: 11.179608136803447
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Anomaly recognition plays a vital role in surveillance, transportation, healthcare, and public safety. However, most existing approaches rely solely on visual data, making them unreliable under challenging conditions such as occlusion, low illumination, and adverse weather. Moreover, the absence of large-scale synchronized audio-visual datasets has hindered progress in multimodal anomaly recognition. To address these limitations, this study presents AVAR-Net, a lightweight and efficient audio-visual anomaly recognition framework designed for real-world environments. AVAR-Net consists of four main modules: an audio feature extractor, a video feature extractor, fusion strategy, and a sequential pattern learning network that models cross-modal relationships for anomaly recognition. Specifically, the Wav2Vec2 model extracts robust temporal features from raw audio, while MobileViT captures both local and global visual representations from video frames. An early fusion mechanism combines these modalities, and a Multi-Stage Temporal Convolutional Network (MTCN) model that learns long-range temporal dependencies within the fused representation, enabling robust spatiotemporal reasoning. A novel Visual-Audio Anomaly Recognition (VAAR) dataset, is also introduced, serving as a medium-scale benchmark containing 3,000 real-world videos with synchronized audio across ten diverse anomaly classes. Experimental evaluations demonstrate that AVAR-Net achieves 89.29% accuracy on VAAR and 88.56% Average Precision on the XD-Violence dataset, improving Average Precision by 2.8% over existing state-of-the-art methods. These results highlight the effectiveness, efficiency, and generalization capability of the proposed framework, as well as the utility of VAAR as a benchmark for advancing multimodal anomaly recognition research.

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