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Online unsupervised detection of anomalies is crucial to guarantee the correct operation of cyber-physical systems and the safety of humans interacting with them. State-of-the-art approaches based on deep learning via neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Daniele Meli

Unsupervised learning of anomaly detection in high-dimensional data, such as images, is a challenging problem recently subject to intense research. Through careful modelling of the data distribution of normal samples, it is possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Amanda Berg , Jörgen Ahlberg , Michael Felsberg

The next generation of observatories will facilitate the discovery of new types of astrophysical transients. The detection of such phenomena, whose characteristics are presently poorly constrained, will hinge on the ability to perform blind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-15 Iftach Sadeh

Unsupervised object discovery is commonly interpreted as the task of localizing and/or categorizing objects in visual data without the need for labeled examples. While current object recognition methods have proven highly effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 José-Fabian Villa-Vásquez , Marco Pedersoli

Unsupervised machine learning is widely used to mine large, unlabeled datasets to make data-driven discoveries in critical domains such as climate science, biomedicine, astronomy, chemistry, and more. However, despite its widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Andersen Chang , Tiffany M. Tang , Tarek M. Zikry , Genevera I. Allen

With the increase in the learning capability of deep convolution-based architectures, various applications of such models have been proposed over time. In the field of anomaly detection, improvements in deep learning opened new prospects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Jin-Ha Lee , Marcella Astrid , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Seung-Ik Lee

Deep learning (DL) algorithms can be used to automate paranasal anomaly detection from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). However, previous works relied on supervised learning techniques to distinguish between normal and abnormal samples.…

Our work focuses on unsupervised and generative methods that address the following goals: (a) learning unsupervised generative representations that discover latent factors controlling image semantic attributes, (b) studying how this ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 William Paul , I-Jeng Wang , Fady Alajaji , Philippe Burlina

We present an application of anomaly detection techniques based on deep recurrent autoencoders to the problem of detecting gravitational wave signals in laser interferometers. Trained on noise data, this class of algorithms could detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Eric A. Moreno , Jean-Roch Vlimant , Maria Spiropulu , Bartlomiej Borzyszkowski , Maurizio Pierini

Deep learning has now become the de facto approach to the recognition of anomalies in medical imaging. Their 'black box' way of classifying medical images into anomaly labels poses problems for their acceptance, particularly with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Satyananda Kashyap , Alexandros Karargyris , Joy Wu , Yaniv Gur , Arjun Sharma , Ken C. L. Wong , Mehdi Moradi , Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood

Unsupervised learning, a branch of machine learning that can operate on unlabelled data, has proven to be a powerful tool for data exploration and discovery in astronomy. As large surveys and new telescopes drive a rapid increase in data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-22 Koketso Mohale , Michelle Lochner

Distance-based methods involve the computation of distance values between features and are a well-established paradigm in machine learning. In anomaly detection, anomalies are identified by their large distance from normal data points.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 Siddharth Chaini , Federica B. Bianco , Ashish Mahabal

Obtaining models that capture imaging markers relevant for disease progression and treatment monitoring is challenging. Models are typically based on large amounts of data with annotated examples of known markers aiming at automating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Thomas Schlegl , Philipp Seeböck , Sebastian M. Waldstein , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Georg Langs

Anomaly detection is to recognize samples that differ in some respect from the training observations. These samples which do not conform to the distribution of normal data are called outliers or anomalies. In real-world anomaly detection…

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

The detection of anomalies is essential mining task for the security and reliability in computer systems. Logs are a common and major data source for anomaly detection methods in almost every computer system. They collect a range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Sasho Nedelkoski , Jasmin Bogatinovski , Alexander Acker , Jorge Cardoso , Odej Kao

This paper presents a simple yet effective method for anomaly detection. The main idea is to learn small perturbations to perturb normal data and learn a classifier to classify the normal data and the perturbed data into two different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinyu Cai , Jicong Fan

Anomaly detection - identifying deviations from Standard Model predictions - is a key challenge at the Large Hadron Collider due to the size and complexity of its datasets. This is typically addressed by transforming high-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-03 Kyle Metzger , Lana Xu , Mia Sodini , Thea K. Arrestad , Katya Govorkova , Gaia Grosso , Philip Harris

Unsupervised representation learning has been extensively employed in anomaly detection, achieving impressive performance. Extracting valuable feature vectors that can remarkably improve the performance of anomaly detection are essential in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Muhao Xu , Xueying Zhou , Xizhan Gao , WeiKai He , Sijie Niu

Anomaly, or out-of-distribution, detection is a promising tool for aiding discoveries of new particles or processes in particle physics. In this work, we identify and address two overlooked opportunities to improve anomaly detection for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-01-18 Abhijith Gandrakota , Lily Zhang , Aahlad Puli , Kyle Cranmer , Jennifer Ngadiuba , Rajesh Ranganath , Nhan Tran

In this work, we propose several enhancements to a geometric transformation based model for anomaly detection in images (GeoTranform). The model assumes that the anomaly class is unknown and that only inlier samples are available for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Esteban Reyes , Pablo A. Estévez