AI RESEARCH
GridVAD: Open-Set Video Anomaly Detection via Spatial Reasoning over Stratified Frame Grids
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2603.25467v1 Announce Type: new Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are powerful open-set reasoners, yet their direct use as anomaly detectors in video surveillance is fragile: without calibrated anomaly priors, they alternate between missed detections and hallucinated false alarms. We argue the problem is not the VLM itself but how it is used. VLMs should function as anomaly proposers, generating open-set candidate descriptions that are then grounded and tracked by purpose-built spatial and temporal modules. We instantiate this propose-ground-propagate principle in GridVAD, a.