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most citedAncilia: Scalable Intelligent Video Surveillance for the Artificial Intelligence of Things

5 citations · 9 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CV2026

YUTELA: A Scalable Edge Cloud AIoT System for Multi-Site Video Anomaly Detection with Scene Specific Adaptation

Shanle Yao, Babak Rahimi Ardabili, Amir Kimiyaie +1

Building upon our previous Ancilia framework, this work presents \emph{YUTELA}, an edge--server--cloud AIoT system for long-term, multi-site video anomaly detection. YUTELA replace…

cs.CV2026

VQ-VAD: Vector-quantized Motion Representation Learning for Human-centric Video Anomaly Detection

Narges Rashvand, Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre, Shanle Yao +2

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is inherently challenging due to the scarcity of anomalies and the large visual variability in surveillance footage, including changes in lighting, vi…

cs.CV2026

From Frames to Events: Rethinking Evaluation in Human-Centric Video Anomaly Detection

Narges Rashvand, Shanle Yao, Armin Danesh Pazho +2

Pose-based Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has gained significant attention for its privacy-preserving nature and robustness to environmental variations. However, traditional frame-l…

cs.AI2026

From Offline to Periodic Adaptation for Pose-Based Shoplifting Detection in Real-world Retail Security

Shanle Yao, Narges Rashvand, Armin Danesh Pazho +1

Shoplifting is a growing operational and economic challenge for retailers, with incidents rising and losses increasing despite extensive video surveillance. Continuous human monito…

cs.CV2026

Are Multimodal LLMs Ready for Surveillance? A Reality Check on Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection in the Wild

Shanle Yao, Armin Danesh Pazho, Narges Rashvand +1

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive general competence in video understanding, yet their reliability for real-world Video Anomaly Detection (VAD)…

cs.CV2025

ALFred: An Active Learning Framework for Real-world Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection with Adaptive Thresholds

Shanle Yao, Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre, Armin Danesh Pazho +1

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) can play a key role in spotting unusual activities in video footage. VAD is difficult to use in real-world settings due to the dynamic nature of human…

cs.CV2025

Exploring Pose-Based Anomaly Detection for Retail Security: A Real-World Shoplifting Dataset and Benchmark

Narges Rashvand, Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre, Armin Danesh Pazho +2

Shoplifting poses a significant challenge for retailers, resulting in billions of dollars in annual losses. Traditional security measures often fall short, highlighting the need fo…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Towards Adaptive Human-centric Video Anomaly Detection: A Comprehensive Framework and A New Benchmark

Armin Danesh Pazho, Shanle Yao, Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre +3

Human-centric Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) aims to identify human behaviors that deviate from normal. At its core, human-centric VAD faces substantial challenges, such as the comp…

cs.CV2024

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Video Anomaly Detection in the Wild: Online Learning and Inference for Real-world Deployment

Shanle Yao, Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre, Armin Danesh Pazho +1

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) identifies unusual activities in video streams, a key technology with broad applications ranging from surveillance to healthcare. Tackling VAD in real…

cs.CY2023★ 1 cited

Enhancing Situational Awareness in Surveillance: Leveraging Data Visualization Techniques for Machine Learning-based Video Analytics Outcomes

Babak Rahimi Ardabili, Shanle Yao, Armin Danesh Pazho +2

The pervasive deployment of surveillance cameras produces a massive volume of data, requiring nuanced interpretation. This study thoroughly examines data representation and visuali…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

From Lab to Field: Real-World Evaluation of an AI-Driven Smart Video Solution to Enhance Community Safety

Shanle Yao, Babak Rahimi Ardabili, Armin Danesh Pazho +4

This article adopts and evaluates an AI-enabled Smart Video Solution (SVS) designed to enhance safety in the real world. The system integrates with existing infrastructure camera n…

cs.CV2023

Real-World Community-in-the-Loop Smart Video Surveillance -- A Case Study at a Community College

Shanle Yao, Babak Rahimi Ardabili, Armin Danesh Pazho +3

Smart Video surveillance systems have become important recently for ensuring public safety and security, especially in smart cities. However, applying real-time artificial intellig…

cs.CV2023★ 5 cited

Ancilia: Scalable Intelligent Video Surveillance for the Artificial Intelligence of Things

Armin Danesh Pazho, Christopher Neff, Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre +4

With the advancement of vision-based artificial intelligence, the proliferation of the Internet of Things connected cameras, and the increasing societal need for rapid and equitabl…