# Object-centric and memory-guided normality reconstruction for video anomaly detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03677 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.03677/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 16 of its 24 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 7 Mar 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 16 of 16)

- [YOLOv3: An Incremental Improvement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.02767/) (2018)
- [Real-world Anomaly Detection in Surveillance Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.04264/) (2018)
- [Memorizing Normality to Detect Anomaly: Memory-augmented Deep Autoencoder for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.02639/) (2019)
- [Future Frame Prediction for Anomaly Detection -- A New Baseline](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.09867/) (2017)
- [Learning Memory-guided Normality for Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.13228/) (2020)
- [Anomaly Detection in Video via Self-Supervised and Multi-Task Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.07491/) (2020)
- [Anomaly Detection in Video Sequence with Appearance-Motion Correspondence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.06351/) (2019)
- [Object-centric Auto-encoders and Dummy Anomalies for Abnormal Event Detection in Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.04960/) (2018)
- [Street Scene: A new dataset and evaluation protocol for video anomaly detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.05872/) (2019)
- [A Survey of Single-Scene Video Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.05993/) (2020)
- [A Background-Agnostic Framework with Adversarial Training for Abnormal Event Detection in Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.12328/) (2020)
- [Continual Learning for Anomaly Detection in Surveillance Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.07941/) (2020)
- [OL'E: Orthogonal Low-rank Embedding, A Plug and Play Geometric Loss for Deep Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.01727/) (2017)
- [Any-Shot Sequential Anomaly Detection in Surveillance Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.02072/) (2020)
- [Learning a distance function with a Siamese network to localize anomalies in videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.09189/) (2020)
- [Detecting abnormal events in video using Narrowed Normality Clusters](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.05030/) (2018)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Spatio-Temporal-based Context Fusion for Video Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.09572/) (2022)
- [RoboVAD: A Large Cross-Domain Evaluation Benchmark for Anomaly Detection in Robotic Arm Manipulation Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.17843/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper addresses video anomaly detection problem for videosurveillance. Due to the inherent rarity and heterogeneity of abnormal events, the problem is viewed as a normality modeling strategy, in which our model learns object-centric normal patterns without seeing anomalous samples during training. The main contributions consist in coupling pretrained object-level action features prototypes with a cosine distance-based anomaly estimation function, therefore extending previous methods by introducing additional constraints to the mainstream reconstruction-based strategy. Our framework leverages both appearance and motion information to learn object-level behavior and captures prototypical patterns within a memory module. Experiments on several well-known datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method as it outperforms current state-of-the-art on most relevant spatio-temporal evaluation metrics.