STEP: Score-Based Temporal Energy for Human Pose Video Anomaly Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19987v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:02:19 GMT
• Title: STEP: Score-Based Temporal Energy for Human Pose Video Anomaly Detection
• Abstract summary: Skeleton-based Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) offers a robust, privacy-preserving solution for identifying abnormal behaviors.<n>Recent methods train Energy-Based Models (EBMs) via Denoising Score Matching (DSM)<n>However, directly injecting noise, required for training, into raw joint coordinates creates physically impossible poses.<n>We introduce STEP, a simple framework that utilizes Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to project pose sequences into a compact, whitened PC-space.
• Score: 13.87765205634944
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Skeleton-based Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) offers a robust, privacy-preserving solution for identifying abnormal behaviors. To model the distribution of normal static and moving poses, recent methods train Energy-Based Models (EBMs) via Denoising Score Matching (DSM). However, directly injecting noise, required for training, into raw joint coordinates creates physically impossible poses, and this structural collapse severely worsens as the temporal window expands. To address this, we introduce STEP, a simple framework that utilizes Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to project pose sequences into a compact, whitened PC-space. Learning the data density within this well-behaved PC-space ensures that the injected noise translates into physically plausible variations, which allows the model to process longer video sequences without the performance collapse of raw coordinate baselines. Additionally, to mitigate inherent pose estimation inaccuracies arising from occlusions or motion blur, we integrate a sequence-level weighting mechanism based on the estimator's confidence scores. Operating at real-time computational efficiency, our simple and lightweight framework outperforms the previous skeleton-based state-of-the-art by 12.2% (90.1% AUROC) on the challenging UBnormal dataset and achieves highly competitive results by improving on the ShanghaiTech benchmark.

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