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Dynamical systems, prevalent in various scientific and engineering domains, are susceptible to anomalies that can significantly impact their performance and reliability. This paper addresses the critical challenges of anomaly detection,…

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Machine learning-based medical anomaly detection is an important problem that has been extensively studied. Numerous approaches have been proposed across various medical application domains and we observe several similarities across these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Tharindu Fernando , Harshala Gammulle , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Anomaly detection is a critical requirement for ensuring safety in autonomous driving. In this work, we leverage Cooperative Perception to share information across nearby vehicles, enabling more accurate identification and consensus of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ashish Bastola , Hao Wang , Abolfazl Razi

Anomaly detection is crucial to ensure the security of cyber-physical systems (CPS). However, due to the increasing complexity of CPSs and more sophisticated attacks, conventional anomaly detection methods, which face the growing volume of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Yuan Luo , Ya Xiao , Long Cheng , Guojun Peng , Danfeng Daphne Yao

Operationalizing machine learning based security detections is extremely challenging, especially in a continuously evolving cloud environment. Conventional anomaly detection does not produce satisfactory results for analysts that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Ram Shankar Siva Kumar , Andrew Wicker , Matt Swann

Collaborative robots are becoming part of intelligent automation systems in modern industry. Development and control of such systems differs from traditional automation methods and consequently leads to new challenges. Thankfully, Robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Endre Erős , Martin Dahl , Kristofer Bengtsson , Atieh Hanna , Petter Falkman

Anomaly detection in complex domains poses significant challenges due to the need for extensive labeled data and the inherently imbalanced nature of anomalous versus benign samples. Graph-based machine learning models have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yifan Wei , Anwar Said , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Anomaly detection (AD) in a surveillance scenario is an emerging and challenging field of research. For autonomous vehicles like drones or cars, it is immensely important to distinguish between normal and abnormal states in real-time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Sayeed Shafayet Chowdhury , Kazi Mejbaul Islam , Rouhan Noor

Robots are increasingly entering uncertain and unstructured environments. Within these, robots are bound to face unexpected external disturbances like accidental human or tool collisions. Robots must develop the capacity to respond to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Hongmin Wu , Hongbin Lin , Shuangqi Luo , Shuangda Duan , Yisheng Guan , Juan Rojas

Detecting anomalies and the corresponding root causes in multivariate time series plays an important role in monitoring the behaviors of various real-world systems, e.g., IT system operations or manufacturing industry. Previous anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Wenzhuo Yang , Kun Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

Log anomaly detection has become a common practice for software engineers to analyze software system behavior. Despite significant research efforts in log anomaly detection over the past decade, it remains unclear what are practitioners'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiaoxue Ma , Yishu Li , Jacky Keung , Xiao Yu , Huiqi Zou , Zhen Yang , Federica Sarro , Earl T. Barr

Serverless computing has redefined cloud application deployment by abstracting infrastructure and enabling on-demand, event-driven execution, thereby enhancing developer agility and scalability. However, maintaining consistent application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chanh Nguyen , Erik Elmroth , Monowar Bhuyan

Testing and debugging have become major obstacles for robot software development, because of high system complexity and dynamic environments. Standard, middleware-based data recording does not provide sufficient information on internal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Christophe Bédard , Ingo Lütkebohle , Michel Dagenais

Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision area with many real-world applications. Given a wide range of images belonging to the normal class, emerging from some distribution, the objective of this task is to construct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chengwei Chen , Pan Chen , Haichuan Song , Yiqing Tao , Yuan Xie , Shouhong Ding , Lizhuang Ma

Most deep anomaly detection models are based on learning normality from datasets due to the difficulty of defining abnormality by its diverse and inconsistent nature. Therefore, it has been a common practice to learn normality under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Minkyung Kim , Jongmin Yu , Junsik Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Jun Kyun Choi

Ensuring the safe and reliable operation of robotic systems is paramount to prevent potential disasters and safeguard human well-being. Despite rigorous design and engineering practices, these systems can still experience malfunctions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Mahfuzul I. Nissan , Sharmin Aktar

Ensuring safety and reliability in human-robot interaction (HRI) requires the timely detection of unexpected events that could lead to system failures or unsafe behaviours. Anomaly detection thus plays a critical role in enabling robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Guilherme Ribeiro , Iordanis Antypas , Leonardo Bizzaro , João Bimbo , Nuno Cruz Garcia

IoT systems have been facing increasingly sophisticated technical problems due to the growing complexity of these systems and their fast deployment practices. Consequently, IoT managers have to judiciously detect failures (anomalies) in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Mustafa Abdallah , Wo Jae Lee , Nithin Raghunathan , Charilaos Mousoulis , John W. Sutherland , Saurabh Bagchi

An important real-world application of multi-robot systems is multi-robot patrolling (MRP), where robots must carry out the activity of going through an area at regular intervals. Motivations for MRP include the detection of anomalies that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Zachary R. Madin , Jonathan Lawry , Edmund R. Hunt

Artificial Intelligence-enabled systems are increasingly being deployed in real-world safety-critical settings involving human participants. It is vital to ensure the safety of such systems and stop the evolution of the system with error…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Aranyak Maity , Ayan Banerjee , Sandeep Gupta