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Anomaly Detection via Self-organizing Map

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021-07-22 v1

Abstract

Anomaly detection plays a key role in industrial manufacturing for product quality control. Traditional methods for anomaly detection are rule-based with limited generalization ability. Recent methods based on supervised deep learning are more powerful but require large-scale annotated datasets for training. In practice, abnormal products are rare thus it is very difficult to train a deep model in a fully supervised way. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised anomaly detection approach based on Self-organizing Map (SOM). Our method, Self-organizing Map for Anomaly Detection (SOMAD) maintains normal characteristics by using topological memory based on multi-scale features. SOMAD achieves state-of the-art performance on unsupervised anomaly detection and localization on the MVTec dataset.

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@article{arxiv.2107.09903,
  title  = {Anomaly Detection via Self-organizing Map},
  author = {Ning Li and Kaitao Jiang and Zhiheng Ma and Xing Wei and Xiaopeng Hong and Yihong Gong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.09903},
  year   = {2021}
}

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International Conference on Image Processing(ICIP), 2021

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