Discriminative Score Suppression for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

Chen Xu, Chunguo Li, Hongjie Xing; Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025, pp. 9569-9578

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WSVAD) often relies on Multiple Instance Learning (MIL). However selecting only the most discriminative segments for training limits the model's ability to comprehensively detect anomalous events particularly hard anomalies. To overcome this limitation we propose the Discriminative Score Suppression (DSS) module. This module suppresses the discriminative scores of the most prominent anomalies shifting the model's attention to less obvious but important hard anomalies. This approach guides the model to learn the critical features of hard anomalies enabling a more comprehensive detection of anomalous events. Additionally the Anomaly Score Refinement (ASR) module constructs a dissimilarity-based classifier by storing normal patterns as prototypes and integrates this with a neural network classifier. By combining the anomaly scores from both classifiers more accurate detection of true hard anomalies is achieved. A score-sensitive inner-bag loss function not only adjusts penalties based on anomaly scores but also ensures that the model avoids erroneous selections. Our method accurately detects various anomalies including challenging and multi-segment anomalies while minimizing false positives for normal events. Extensive experiments show that the proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the UCF-Crime and XD-Violence datasets.