A Lightweight Video Anomaly Detection Model with Weak Supervision and
  Adaptive Instance Selection
Yang Wang Jiaogen Zhou Jihong Guan
Video anomaly detection is to determine whether there are any abnormal
events, behaviors or objects in a given video, which enables effective and
intelligent public safety management. As video anomaly labeling is both
time-consuming and expensive, most existing works employ unsupervised or weakly
supervised learning methods. This paper focuses on weakly supervised video
anomaly detection, in which the training videos are labeled whether or not they
contain any anomalies, but there is no information about which frames the
anomalies are located. However, the uncertainty of weakly labeled data and the
large model size prevent existing methods from wide deployment in real
scenarios, especially the resource-limit situations such as edge-computing. In
this paper, we develop a lightweight video anomaly detection model. On the one
hand, we propose an adaptive instance selection strategy, which is based on the
model's current status to select confident instances, thereby mitigating the
uncertainty of weakly labeled data and subsequently promoting the model's
performance. On the other hand, we design a lightweight multi-level temporal
correlation attention module and an hourglass-shaped fully connected layer to
construct the model, which can reduce the model parameters to only 0.56\% of
the existing methods (e.g. RTFM). Our extensive experiments on two public
datasets UCF-Crime and ShanghaiTech show that our model can achieve comparable
or even superior AUC score compared to the state-of-the-art methods, with a
significantly reduced number of model parameters.