IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 15, No 2: April 2026

TMA-Net: a transformer-based multi-modal attention network for abnormal behavior detection

Doan, Huong-Giang (Unknown)
Nguyen, Ngoc-Trung (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Apr 2026

Abstract

Abnormal behavior detection in crowded environments remains challenging due to complex motion patterns, occlusions, and domain variability. This paper presents transformer-based multi-modal attention network (TMA-Net), a unified framework that integrates red, green, and blue (RGB), optical flow (OF), and heat map (HM) modalities through a dual-stage attention fusion mechanism. The system employs you only look once version 11 (YOLOv11) for human localization and vision transformer (ViT)-B/16 for feature encoding, followed by intra-modal self-attention and cross-modal fusion to capture fine-grained spatial–temporal and motion energy dependencies. Extensive experiments on six public benchmarks as UMN, Crowd-11, UBNormal, ShanghaiTech, CUHK Avenue, UCSD Ped2, and EPUAbN dataset, demonstrate that TMA-Net achieves up to 97.5% area under the curve (AUC) and 96–100% accuracy, outperforming previous other state-of-the-art approaches. These results highlight the framework’s strong generalization and robustness across both single- and cross-dataset evaluations, underscoring its potential for reliable deployment in real intelligent surveillance systems.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...