# Anomaly Detection for People with Visual Impairments Using an Egocentric 360-Degree Camera

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10945 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.10945/

## Key facts

- Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 27 of its 40 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 17 Nov 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 27 of 27)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [Quo Vadis, Action Recognition? A New Model and the Kinetics Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1705.07750/) (2017)
- [YOLOv7: Trainable bag-of-freebies sets new state-of-the-art for real-time object detectors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.02696/) (2022)
- [VizWiz Grand Challenge: Answering Visual Questions from Blind People](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.08218/) (2018)
- [Real-world Anomaly Detection in Surveillance Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.04264/) (2018)
- [MetaFormer Is Actually What You Need for Vision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.11418/) (2021)
- [Future Frame Prediction for Anomaly Detection -- A New Baseline](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.09867/) (2017)
- [Not only Look, but also Listen: Learning Multimodal Violence Detection under Weak Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.04687/) (2020)
- [Weakly-supervised Video Anomaly Detection with Robust Temporal Feature Magnitude Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.10030/) (2021)
- [Adversarially Learned One-Class Classifier for Novelty Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.09088/) (2018)
- [Graph Convolutional Label Noise Cleaner: Train a Plug-and-play Action Classifier for Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.07256/) (2019)
- [MIST: Multiple Instance Self-Training Framework for Video Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.01633/) (2021)
- [VadCLIP: Adapting Vision-Language Models for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.11681/) (2023)
- [Anomaly Detection in Video Sequence with Appearance-Motion Correspondence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.06351/) (2019)
- [Captioning Images Taken by People Who Are Blind](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.08565/) (2020)
- [Dual Memory Units with Uncertainty Regulation for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.05160/) (2023)
- [MGFN: Magnitude-Contrastive Glance-and-Focus Network for Weakly-Supervised Video Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.15098/) (2022)
- [CLIP-TSA: CLIP-Assisted Temporal Self-Attention for Weakly-Supervised Video Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.05136/) (2022)
- [Video Anomaly Detection by Solving Decoupled Spatio-Temporal Jigsaw Puzzles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.10172/) (2022)
- [TASED-Net: Temporally-Aggregating Spatial Encoder-Decoder Network for Video Saliency Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.05786/) (2019)
- [Text Prompt with Normality Guidance for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.08531/) (2024)
- [Motion-Aware Feature for Improved Video Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.10211/) (2019)
- [Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection via Center-guided Discriminative Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.07268/) (2021)
- [A New Comprehensive Benchmark for Semi-supervised Video Anomaly Detection and Anticipation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.13611/) (2023)
- [Why Does a Visual Question Have Different Answers?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.04342/) (2019)
- [Assessing Image Quality Issues for Real-World Problems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.12511/) (2020)
- [Video Question Answering for People with Visual Impairments Using an Egocentric 360-Degree Camera](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.19794/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 7 of 7)

- [Instance-Aligned Captions for Explainable Video Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.08155/) (2026)
- [Bounding-Box Trajectories Matter for Video Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.21957/) (2026)
- [Fire360: A Benchmark for Robust Perception and Episodic Memory in Degraded 360-Degree Firefighting Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.02167/) (2025)
- [What if? Emulative Simulation with World Models for Situated Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.06445/) (2026)
- [Rethinking Open-World Video Anomaly Detection: Diagnosing Definition Blindness](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.20780/) (2026)
- [Is Video Anomaly Detection Misframed? Evidence from LLM-Based and Multi-Scene Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.12725/) (2026)
- [Look Inside Each Video: Rethinking How Video Anomaly Detection Is Evaluated](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.21854/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Recent advancements in computer vision have led to a renewed interest in developing assistive technologies for individuals with visual impairments. Although extensive research has been conducted in the field of computer vision-based assistive technologies, most of the focus has been on understanding contexts in images, rather than addressing their physical safety and security concerns. To address this challenge, we propose the first step towards detecting anomalous situations for visually impaired people by observing their entire surroundings using an egocentric 360-degree camera. We first introduce a novel egocentric 360-degree video dataset called VIEW360 (Visually Impaired Equipped with Wearable 360-degree camera), which contains abnormal activities that visually impaired individuals may encounter, such as shoulder surfing and pickpocketing. Furthermore, we propose a new architecture called the FDPN (Frame and Direction Prediction Network), which facilitates frame-level prediction of abnormal events and identifying of their directions. Finally, we evaluate our approach on our VIEW360 dataset and the publicly available UCF-Crime and Shanghaitech datasets, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance.