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Leveraging deep learning models for Anomaly Detection (AD) has seen widespread use in recent years due to superior performances over traditional methods. Recent deep methods for anomalies in images learn better features of normality in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Andrei Manolache , Florin Brad , Elena Burceanu

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) has been widely implemented in industrial and medical applications, which reduces the cost of manual annotation and improves efficiency in disease diagnosis. Recently, deep auto-encoder with its variants…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Mingqing Wang , Jiawei Li , Zhenyang Li , Chengxiao Luo , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhi Wang

A plethora of outlier detectors have been explored in the time series domain, however, in a business sense, not all outliers are anomalies of interest. Existing anomaly detection solutions are confined to certain outlier detectors limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ebenezer R. H. P. Isaac , Akshat Sharma

A method for unsupervised contextual anomaly detection is proposed using a cross-linked pair of Variational Auto-Encoders for assigning a normality score to an observation. The method enables a distinct separation of contextual from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-02 Yaniv Shulman

Anomaly detection is an important task for complex systems (e.g., industrial facilities, manufacturing, large-scale science experiments), where failures in a sub-system can lead to low yield, faulty products, or even damage to components.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ryan Humble , Zhe Zhang , Finn O'Shea , Eric Darve , Daniel Ratner

Anomaly detection has been considered under several extents of prior knowledge. Unsupervised methods do not require any labelled data, whereas semi-supervised methods leverage some known anomalies. Inspired by mixture-of-experts models and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 J. -P. Schulze , P. Sperl , K. Böttinger

Unsupervised anomaly discovery in stream data is a research topic with many practical applications. However, in many cases, it is not easy to collect enough training data with labeled anomalies for supervised learning of an anomaly detector…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Piotr S. Maciąg , Marzena Kryszkiewicz , Robert Bembenik , Jesus L. Lobo , Javier Del Ser

In contemporary society, surveillance anomaly detection, i.e., spotting anomalous events such as crimes or accidents in surveillance videos, is a critical task. As anomalies occur rarely, most training data consists of unlabeled videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 MyeongAh Cho , Taeoh Kim , Woo Jin Kim , Suhwan Cho , Sangyoun Lee

Unsupervised learning can leverage large-scale data sources without the need for annotations. In this context, deep learning-based autoencoders have shown great potential in detecting anomalies in medical images. However, especially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-03 David Zimmerer , Simon Kohl , Jens Petersen , Fabian Isensee , Klaus Maier-Hein

Anomaly detection in images plays a significant role for many applications across all industries, such as disease diagnosis in healthcare or quality assurance in manufacturing. Manual inspection of images, when extended over a monotonously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Vincent Wilmet , Sauraj Verma , Tabea Redl , Håkon Sandaker , Zhenning Li

Anomaly detection without priors of the anomalies is challenging. In the field of unsupervised anomaly detection, traditional auto-encoder (AE) tends to fail based on the assumption that by training only on normal images, the model will not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yajie Cui , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian

One of the most promising applications of quantum computing is simulating quantum many-body systems. However, there is still a need for methods to efficiently investigate these systems in a native way, capturing their full complexity. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Korbinian Kottmann , Friederike Metz , Joana Fraxanet , Niccolo Baldelli

In this paper, we demonstrate the potential of applying Variational Autoencoder (VAE) [10] for anomaly detection in skin disease images. VAE is a class of deep generative models which is trained by maximizing the evidence lower bound of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Yuchen Lu , Peng Xu

Detecting anomalies in multivariate time series is essential for monitoring complex industrial systems, where high dimensionality, limited labeled data, and subtle dependencies between sensors cause significant challenges. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bahareh Golchin , Banafsheh Rekabdar

In recent years, the emergence and development of third-party platforms have greatly facilitated the growth of the Online to Offline (O2O) business. However, the large amount of transaction data raises new challenges for retailers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xu Chen , Qiu Qiu , Changshan Li , Kunqing Xie

Anomaly detection has been a challenging task given high-dimensional multivariate time series data generated by networked sensors and actuators in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Besides the highly nonlinear, complex, and dynamic natures of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Kai Zhang , Yushan Jiang , Lee Seversky , Chengtao Xu , Dahai Liu , Houbing Song

Monitoring traffic in computer networks is one of the core approaches for defending critical infrastructure against cyber attacks. Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been proposed in the past as a tool to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Daniel L. Marino , Chathurika S. Wickramasinghe , Craig Rieger , Milos Manic

Unsupervised visual defect detection is critical in industrial applications, requiring a representation space that captures normal data features while detecting deviations. Achieving a balance between expressiveness and compactness is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Qisen Cheng , Shuhui Qu , Janghwan Lee

In this paper, we study unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms that learn a neural network representation, i.e. regular patterns of normal data, which anomalies are deviating from. Inspired by a similar concept in engineering, we refer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Simon Klüttermann , Tim Katzke , Emmanuel Müller

Detection of artificial objects from underwater imagery gathered by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is a key requirement for many subsea applications. Real-world AUV image datasets tend to be very large and unlabelled. Furthermore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Suraj Bijjahalli , Oscar Pizarro , Stefan B. Williams