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Automated surface inspection is an important task in many manufacturing industries and often requires machine learning driven solutions. Supervised approaches, however, can be challenging, since it is often difficult to obtain large amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Matthias Haselmann , Dieter P. Gruber , Paul Tabatabai

Anomaly Detection involves identifying deviations from normal data distributions and is critical in fields such as medical diagnostics and industrial defect detection. Traditional AD methods typically require the availability of normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Alireza Salehi , Mohammadreza Salehi , Reshad Hosseini , Cees G. M. Snoek , Makoto Yamada , Mohammad Sabokrou

We propose a method that performs anomaly detection and localisation within heterogeneous data using a pairwise undirected mixed graphical model. The data are a mixture of categorical and quantitative variables, and the model is learned…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-21 Romain Laby , François Roueff , Alexandre Gramfort

The detection and the quantification of anomalies in image data are critical tasks in industrial scenes such as detecting micro scratches on product. In recent years, due to the difficulty of defining anomalies and the limit of correcting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Masanari Kimura , Takashi Yanagihara

Object detection networks have reached an impressive performance level, yet a lack of suitable data in specific applications often limits it in practice. Typically, additional data sources are utilized to support the training task. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Maximilian Menke , Thomas Wenzel , Andreas Schwung

We introduce a simple and intuitive self-supervision task, Natural Synthetic Anomalies (NSA), for training an end-to-end model for anomaly detection and localization using only normal training data. NSA integrates Poisson image editing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Hannah M. Schlüter , Jeremy Tan , Benjamin Hou , Bernhard Kainz

Anomaly detection in multivariate time series (MTS) is crucial for various applications in data mining and industry. Current industrial methods typically approach anomaly detection as an unsupervised learning task, aiming to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yuanyi Wang , Haifeng Sun , Chengsen Wang , Mengde Zhu , Jingyu Wang , Wei Tang , Qi Qi , Zirui Zhuang , Jianxin Liao

In line with the development of Industry 4.0, surface defect detection/anomaly detection becomes a topical subject in the industry field. Improving efficiency as well as saving labor costs has steadily become a matter of great concern in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yajie Cui , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian

Anomaly localization in images -- identifying regions that deviate from normal patterns -- is vital in applications such as medical diagnosis and industrial inspection. A recent trend is the use of image generation models in anomaly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-28 Teruyuki Katsuoka , Tomohiro Shiraishi , Daiki Miwa , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Ichiro Takeuchi

Anomaly detection is to identify samples that do not conform to the distribution of the normal data. Due to the unavailability of anomalous data, training a supervised deep neural network is a cumbersome task. As such, unsupervised methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Vahid Reza Khazaie , Anthony Wong , John Taylor Jewell , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Automatic detection of anomalies such as weapons or threat objects in baggage security, or detecting impaired items in industrial production is an important computer vision task demanding high efficiency and accuracy. Most of the available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Rushikesh Zawar , Krupa Bhayani , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Kamlesh Tiwari , Dhiraj Sangwan

Generalist Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to train a unified model on an original domain that can detect anomalies in new target domains. Previous GAD methods primarily use only normal samples as references, overlooking the valuable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Yuexin Wang , Xiaolei Wang , Yizheng Gong , Jimin Xiao

Anomaly inspection plays a vital role in industrial manufacturing, but the scarcity of anomaly samples significantly limits the effectiveness of existing methods in tasks such as localization and classification. While several anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yilin Lu , Jianghang Lin , Linhuang Xie , Kai Zhao , Yansong Qu , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has emerged as a pivotal task in computer vision, with broad relevance across multiple fields. Recent advances in deep learning have driven significant progress in this area, yet the field remains fragmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Armin Danesh Pazho , Hamed Tabkhi

This work tackles Weakly Supervised Anomaly detection, in which a predictor is allowed to learn not only from normal examples but also from a few labeled anomalies made available during training. In particular, we deal with the localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Aniello Panariello , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara

Graph anomaly detection has long been an important problem in various domains pertaining to information security such as financial fraud, social spam and network intrusion. The majority of existing methods are performed in an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xiongxiao Xu , Kaize Ding , Canyu Chen , Kai Shu

Recent studies on visual anomaly detection (AD) of industrial objects/textures have achieved quite good performance. They consider an unsupervised setting, specifically the one-class setting, in which we assume the availability of a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Jie Zhang , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

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

Visual anomaly detection is an important and challenging problem in the field of machine learning and computer vision. This problem has attracted a considerable amount of attention in relevant research communities. Especially in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Jie Yang , Ruijie Xu , Zhiquan Qi , Yong Shi

In recent years, anomaly detection has become an essential field in medical image analysis. Most current anomaly detection methods for medical images are based on image reconstruction. In this work, we propose a novel anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Florentin Bieder , Julia Wolleb , Robin Sandkühler , Philippe C. Cattin