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Anomaly detection aims at identifying data points that show systematic deviations from the majority of data in an unlabeled dataset. A common assumption is that clean training data (free of anomalies) is available, which is often violated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Chen Qiu , Aodong Li , Marius Kloft , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

Based on the technique of generalized likelihood ratio test, we address detection schemes for Doppler-shifted range-spread targets in Gaussian noise. First, a detection scheme is derived by solving the maximization associated with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-10 Mai. P. T. Nguyen , I. Song , S. Lee , S. Yoon

Complete anomaly detection strategies that are both signal sensitive and compatible with background estimation have largely focused on resonant signals. Non-resonant new physics scenarios are relatively under-explored and may arise from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-08 Kehang Bai , Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman

We propose a novel hyperspectral (HS) anomaly detection method that is robust to various types of noise. Most existing HS anomaly detection methods are designed without explicit consideration of noise or are based on the assumption of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Koyo Sato , Shunsuke Ono

The goal of anomaly detection is to identify anomalous samples from normal ones. In this paper, a small number of anomalies are assumed to be available at the training stage, but they are assumed to be collected only from several anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Bowen Tian , Qinliang Su , Jian Yin

Anomaly detection is a method for discovering unusual and suspicious behavior. In many real-world scenarios, the examined events can be directly linked to the actions of an adversary, such as attacks on computer networks or frauds in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Olga Petrova , Karel Durkota , Galina Alperovich , Karel Horak , Michal Najman , Branislav Bosansky , Viliam Lisy

Anomaly detection presents a unique challenge in machine learning, due to the scarcity of labeled anomaly data. Recent work attempts to mitigate such problems by augmenting training of deep anomaly detection models with additional labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Ziyu Ye , Yuxin Chen , Haitao Zheng

Small target detection is inherently challenging due to the minimal size, lack of distinctive features, and the presence of complex backgrounds. Heavy noise further complicates the task by both obscuring and imitating the target appearance.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Nicholas Bampton , Tian J. Ma , Minh N. Do

Quantum target detection aims to utilise quantum technologies to achieve performances in target detection not possible through purely classical means. Quantum illumination is an example of this, based on signal-idler entanglement, promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Athena Karsa , Masoud Ghalaii , Stefano Pirandola

Autoencoders have been extensively used in the development of recent anomaly detection techniques. The premise of their application is based on the notion that after training the autoencoder on normal training data, anomalous inputs will…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Amin Ghafourian , Huanyi Shui , Devesh Upadhyay , Rajesh Gupta , Dimitar Filev , Iman Soltani Bozchalooi

In recent years, specific evaluation metrics for time series anomaly detection algorithms have been developed to handle the limitations of the classical precision and recall. However, such metrics are heuristically built as an aggregate of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Alexis Huet , Jose Manuel Navarro , Dario Rossi

Most classification algorithms used in high energy physics fall under the category of supervised machine learning. Such methods require a training set containing both signal and background events and are prone to classification errors…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-03 Mikael Kuusela , Tommi Vatanen , Eric Malmi , Tapani Raiko , Timo Aaltonen , Yoshikazu Nagai

The detection of objects in the presence of significant background noise is a problem of fundamental interest in sensing. In this work, we theoretically analyze a prototype target detection protocol, the quantum temporal correlation (QTC)…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-16 Han Liu , Bhashyam Balaji , Amr S. Helmy

Anomaly detection seeks to identify unusual phenomena, a central task in science and industry. The task is inherently unsupervised as anomalies are unexpected and unknown during training. Recent advances in self-supervised representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tal Reiss , Niv Cohen , Eliahu Horwitz , Ron Abutbul , Yedid Hoshen

This paper considers the problem of acquiring an unknown target location (among a finite number of locations) via a sequence of measurements, where each measurement consists of simultaneously probing a group of locations. The resulting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Anusha Lalitha , Nancy Ronquillo , Tara Javidi

The identification of anomalies is a critical component of operating complex, and possibly large-scale and geo-graphically distributed cyber-physical systems. While designing anomaly detectors, it is common to assume Gaussian noise models…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Venkatraman Renganathan , Navid Hashemi , Justin Ruths , Tyler H. Summers

The problem of detecting new signals in the presence of an unknown background is ubiquitous in scientific discoveries and is especially prominent in the physical sciences. Most solutions proposed thus far to address the problem focus on…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-21 Aritra Banerjee , Sara Algeri

This article provides a thorough meta-analysis of the anomaly detection problem. To accomplish this we first identify approaches to benchmarking anomaly detection algorithms across the literature and produce a large corpus of anomaly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Andrew Emmott , Shubhomoy Das , Thomas Dietterich , Alan Fern , Weng-Keen Wong

Various approaches in the field of physical layer security involve anomaly detection, such as physical layer authentication, sensing attacks, and anti-tampering solutions. Depending on the context in which these approaches are applied,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

Anomaly detection is being regarded as an unsupervised learning task as anomalies stem from adversarial or unlikely events with unknown distributions. However, the predictive performance of purely unsupervised anomaly detection often fails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Nico Goernitz , Marius Micha Kloft , Konrad Rieck , Ulf Brefeld