Video Surveillance

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Video surveillance research builds systems that detect people, vehicles, and events, track activity over time, and help operators search or review camera footage. Common approaches include object detectors and trackers, pose and motion analysis, weakly supervised anomaly detection, and newer vision-language models for describing scenes and answering questions. Methods are tested on settings such as traffic monitoring and anomaly benchmarks including UCF-Crime, XD-Violence, and ShanghaiTech, with growing attention to real-time edge deployment and privacy-preserving processing. A central challenge is making results reliable beyond familiar datasets: camera angle, image quality, location, and rare events can undermine performance, while privacy, useful detail, and human oversight must be balanced.

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62 papers6 papers in the last four weeks, down 25% on the four weeks before. 0.0% of all new papers.

  1. Auditing Observation-Quality Shortcuts in the Evaluation of Person-Centered Motion for Video Anomaly Detection

    Oct 12, 2026Chaehyun Kim, Changwon LimVideo Anomaly DetectionShortcut Learning

    Department of Statistics and Data Science Chung-Ang University

  2. Video-Based Sexual Harassment Detection Using Fine-Tuned Video Transformers

    Oct 11, 2026Jubayer- Al- Mahmud, Md Shamimul Islam, Md Nur HossainVideo Content ModerationVideo Surveillance

    Department of CSE, Manarat International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh · Department of Computer Science, Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland, Florida, USA

  3. VESSI - VLM-Enhanced Support for Surveillance and Investigations

    Oct 8, 2026Saverio Cavasin, Pietro Tedeschi, Mattia Tamiazzo +3Video SurveillanceVision-Language Models

    Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Padua, Italy · Innovation & Research Center, CY4GATE S.p.A., part of ELT Group, Rome, Italy · Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy +1

  4. CCDF: A Benchmark Dataset for Deepfake Detection in Surveillance Footage

    Oct 6, 2026Baptiste Chopin, Thomas Swearingen, Arun Ross +2Deepfake DetectionVideo Surveillance

    da/sec – Biometrics and Security Research Group, Hochschule Darmstadt · Computer Science and Engineering Department, Michigan State University · STARS team, Inria Center at Université Côte d’Azur

  5. Can We Anticipate Violence? Multimodal Learning from Pre-Incident Behavioral Cues

    Sep 30, 2026Sindhuja Penchala, Mohammed Yusuf Mujawar, Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz +2Human Behavior PredictionMultimodal Learning

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA

  6. Decision Readouts for Text-Mediated Video Anomaly Detection: An Exploratory Evaluation of Jev and Qwen

    Sep 28, 2026Xukui Qin, Youting Wang, Xinjie He +4LLM Uncertainty EstimationVideo Anomaly Detection

    Independent researchers

  7. Copy What Is Seen, Generate What Is Not: Training-Free Anomaly-Aware Video Restoration

    Sep 16, 2026Zhida Qu, Shengchao ChenVideo RestorationVideo Surveillance

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University · Australian AI Institute, University of Technology Sydney

  8. CatchMonitor: a machine learning system for automated fish discard quantification

    Sep 14, 2026Geoff French, Michal Mackiewicz, Mark Fisher +2Object CountingVideo Surveillance

  9. BodyCam-VQA: Enhanced Body-Worn Camera Video Captioning via Multimodal Reasoning and Probe Question Generation

    Sep 9, 2026Karish Gupta, Matthew Alex, Alex Li +6Video QAMultimodal Reasoning

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA · Axon, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

  10. Data-Efficient Crosswalk Segmentation from Overhead CCTV via Confidence- and Geometry-Guided Pseudo-Labeling

    Sep 8, 2026Abdirashid Omar, Jonghyuk ParkPseudo-LabelingSemantic Segmentation

    Department of Data Science, Graduate School of Kookmin University · Seoul 02707, Republic of Korea

  11. Parser-Free VLM Verification for Federated Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

    Sep 7, 2026Sébastien Thuau, Amira Gran, Siba Haidar +1Multimodal Anomaly DetectionWeakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

    esieaLab, ESIEA, Paris, France · ETIS Laboratory, CNRS, UMR8051, CY Cergy Paris University, Paris, France

  12. Federated Binary Gating with Server-Side Vision-Language Inference for Surveillance Anomaly Classification

    Sep 7, 2026Côme-Alexis Puech, Sébastien Thuau, Amira Gran +3Video Anomaly DetectionVideo Surveillance

    esieaLab, ESIEA, Paris, France · ETIS Laboratory, CNRS, UMR8051, CY Cergy Paris University, Paris, France

  13. Thinking with Cameras: Active Visual Reasoning via Dynamic Viewpoint Control for Surveillance Video Understanding

    Sep 6, 2026Xiao Zhang, Wang Zeng, Sheng Jin +3Video SurveillanceActive Visual Perception

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University · SenseTime Research and Tetras.AI

  14. A Benchmark for Vehicle Attribute Classification in Cross-Domain Surveillance Scenarios

    Sep 1, 2026Sergio M. Silva, Otavio T. Remer, Gabriel E. Lima +3Cross-Domain GeneralizationVideo Surveillance

    Department of Informatics, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil · Graduate Program in Informatics, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

  15. STAIN-FL: Stealthy Targeted Attack Injection with Contextual Triggers in Federated Learning

    Aug 25, 2026Ashlinder Kaur, Purnima Murali Mohan, Zengxiang Li +1Backdoor AttacksBackdoor Attacks in Federated Learning

    Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) Singapore · SingHealth Duke-NUS AI in Medicine Institute SingHealth AI Office, Singapore

  16. Auditing Frame-Level AUC in Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection: Granularity, Resolution, and Scene Bias

    Aug 12, 2026Sara Abdulaziz, Egor BondarevAnomaly LocalizationAlgorithmic Bias

    Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AE Eindhoven, Netherlands

  17. TD-VAD: Breaking Visual Dependence in Video Anomaly Detection with Text-Driven Learning

    Aug 12, 2026Shuangqing Zhang, Lei-Lei Ma, Zhao Wang +5Video Anomaly DetectionZero-Shot Anomaly Detection

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Suzhou 215163, China. · School of Artificial Intelligence Engineering, Hefei Institute of Technology, Hefei 230001, China. · China Mobile Zijin Innovation Institute, Nanjing 211800, China. +1

  18. MVTrack: Ultrafast Appearance-Free Moving Object Tracking from Compressed Bitstreams

    Aug 11, 2026Iñaki Erregue, Kamal Nasrollahi, Sergio EscaleraVisual Object TrackingVideo Object Detection

    Universitat de Barcelona · Computer Vision Center · Milestone Systems +1

  19. City Sentinel: A Unified AI-Based Smart Surveillance Framework for Real-Time Multi-Threat Detection Using Deep Learning

    Aug 9, 2026Hanan Syed Shabir, Noor Fatima, Safia Baloch +1Real-Time Object DetectionVideo Surveillance

    GIK Institute, Topi, Pakistan

  20. Accurate Localization of Road Traffic Objects on the Road Plane Using Surveillance Camera Imagery

    Aug 6, 2026Jan Gawroński, Witold CzajewskiKeypoint DetectionVideo Surveillance

    Warsaw University of Technology · Faculty of Electrical Engineering · Warsaw, Poland

  21. MonitorVLM-v2: A Deployed Vision-Language Framework for Real-Time Safety Violation Detection

    Aug 2, 2026Jiang Wu, Sichao Wu, Yinsong Ma +2Vision-Language ModelsEfficient VLM Inference

    School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing · The Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Johns Hopkins University

  22. BLUE: Semantics-Preserving Video Compression for Efficient Vision-Language Surveillance Analytics

    Jul 21, 2026Shubham Baid, Akash James, Sahil Chachra +2Efficient VLM InferenceVideo Compression

    KGraph AI Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India – 560016

  23. AdvSerial: Physical Adversarial Attacks on Infrastructure-mounted Pedestrian Detectors via Semantic Feature Suppression

    Jul 19, 2026Yuanhao Huang, Yilong Ren, Jinlei Wang +3Adversarial Patch AttacksAdversarial Attacks

    School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, 100191, Beijing, P.R China · Zhongguancun Laboratory, 100191, Beijing, P.R China · School of Systems Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, 510006, Guangzhou, P.R China +1

  24. Clean-Reference Streaming Detection of Lens Occlusion and Photometric Transitions for Camera Tamper Monitoring

    Jul 16, 2026Bo Ma, WeiQi Yan, Jinsong WuOnline Anomaly DetectionFault Detection

    Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1024, New Zealand · Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, China

  25. EgoPolice: A Benchmark for Egocentric Video Understanding in High-Stakes Police Body-Worn Camera Footage

    Jul 7, 2026Max Gonzalez Saez-Diez, Jihoon Chung, Adam D. Wolsky +5Video QAEgocentric Video Understanding

    Princeton University · University of Pennsylvania

  26. Event Detection in Videos: A Framework for the Development of New Methods

    Jul 5, 2026Anastasia Zakharova, Thierry Bouwmans, Anthony Cioppa +13Video SurveillanceTemporal Video Understanding

    MIA lab of the La Rochelle University, France · Montefiore Institute of the University of Liège, Belgium · DIEM Department of the University of Salerno, Italy +5

  27. A Multi-Task Deep Learning Framework for Real-Time Intelligent Video Surveillance with Temporal Event Validation

    Jul 3, 2026Estera Dumitru, Stelian SpînuVideo Action RecognitionObject Detection

    Faculty of Information Systems and Cyber Security Military Technical Academy “Ferdinand I” Bucharest, Romania

  28. Empirical Evaluation of Multi-Modal Touch Detection in Over-the-Shoulder Video Surveillance

    Jun 28, 2026Mohammadreza RashidiMultimodal Sensor FusionVideo Surveillance

    Department of Computer Science · AI and Media Analysis Lab · Berlin, Germany

  29. BLUE: A Stale-Pixel Optical-Flow Compositor for Entropy-Efficient Surveillance Video Encoding

    Jun 27, 2026Shubham Baid, Akash James, Sahil Chachra +2Video CompressionVideo Surveillance

    KGraph AI Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India.

  30. Towards Accurate and Robust Surveillance Roadside IVD via Trackletized Audio-Visual Reasoning

    Jun 21, 2026Xiwen Li, Xiaoya Tang, Bodong Zhang +1Audio-Visual UnderstandingVideo Surveillance

    Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah · Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah