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Any intelligent traffic monitoring system must be able to detect anomalies such as traffic accidents in real time. In this paper, we propose a Decision-Tree - enabled approach powered by Deep Learning for extracting anomalies from traffic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Armstrong Aboah , Maged Shoman , Vishal Mandal , Sayedomidreza Davami , Yaw Adu-Gyamfi , Anuj Sharma

Modern astronomical surveys are producing datasets of unprecedented size and richness, increasing the potential for high-impact scientific discovery. This possibility, coupled with the challenge of exploring a large number of sources, has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-01 Verlon Etsebeth , Michelle Lochner , Mike Walmsley , Margherita Grespan

Detection of anomalous situations for complex mission-critical systems hold paramount importance when their service continuity needs to be ensured. A major challenge in detecting anomalies from the operational data arises due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shanay Mehta , Shlok Mehendale , Nicole Fernandes , Jyotirmoy Sarkar , Santonu Sarkar , Snehanshu Saha

We present a novel method for detecting outliers in astronomical time series based on the combination of a deep neural network and a k-nearest neighbor algorithm with the aim of identifying and removing problematic epochs in the light…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Stefano Cavuoti , Demetra De Cicco , Lars Doorenbos , Massimo Brescia , Olena Torbaniuk , Giuseppe Longo , Maurizio Paolillo

This paper introduces a novel anomaly detection (AD) problem aimed at identifying `odd-looking' objects within a scene by comparing them to other objects present. Unlike traditional AD benchmarks with fixed anomaly criteria, our task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ankan Bhunia , Changjian Li , Hakan Bilen

In crowded scenes, detection and localization of abnormal behaviors is challenging in that high-density people make object segmentation and tracking extremely difficult. We associate the optical flows of multiple frames to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Xinfeng Zhang , Su Yang , Xinjian Zhang , Weishan Zhang , Jiulong Zhang

Large time-domain sky surveys generate extensive multi-year catalogs of light curves in which scientifically valuable transients, such as supernovae (SNe), are vastly outnumbered by artifacts and routine star variability. While supervised…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Semenikhin T. A. , Kornilov M. V. , Pruzhinskaya M. V. , Krushinsky V. V. , Malanchev K. L. , Dodin A.

Weird galaxies are outliers that have either unknown or very uncommon features making them different from the normal sample. These galaxies are very interesting as they may provide new insights into current theories, or can be used to form…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-20 Job Formsma , Teymoor Saifollahi

Much hope for finding new physics phenomena at microscopic scale relies on the observations obtained from High Energy Physics experiments, like the ones performed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). However, current experiments do not…

Anomaly detection with convolutional autoencoders is a popular method to search for new physics in a model-agnostic manner. These techniques are powerful, but they are still a "black box," since we do not know what high-level physical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-13 Layne Bradshaw , Spencer Chang , Bryan Ostdiek

In the upcoming decade large astronomical surveys will discover millions of transients raising unprecedented data challenges in the process. Only the use of the machine learning algorithms can process such large data volumes. Most of the…

Learning a latent embedding to understand the underlying nature of data distribution is often formulated in Euclidean spaces with zero curvature. However, the success of the geometry constraints, posed in the embedding space, indicates that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Jie Hong , Pengfei Fang , Weihao Li , Junlin Han , Lars Petersson , Mehrtash Harandi

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

There is a shortage of multi-wavelength and spectroscopic followup capabilities given the number of transient and variable astrophysical events discovered through wide-field, optical surveys such as the upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 V. Ashley Villar , Miles Cranmer , Edo Berger , Gabriella Contardo , Shirley Ho , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , Joshua Yao-Yu Lin

Google uses continuous streams of data from industry partners in order to deliver accurate results to users. Unexpected drops in traffic can be an indication of an underlying issue and may be an early warning that remedial action may be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-15 Dominique T. Shipmon , Jason M. Gurevitch , Paolo M. Piselli , Stephen T. Edwards

Video anomaly detection has proved to be a challenging task owing to its unsupervised training procedure and high spatio-temporal complexity existing in real-world scenarios. In the absence of anomalous training samples, state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Masoud Pourreza , Mohammadreza Salehi , Mohammad Sabokrou

We present a new algorithm for anomaly detection called Anomaly Awareness. The algorithm learns about normal events while being made aware of the anomalies through a modification of the cost function. We show how this method works in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Charanjit K. Khosa , Veronica Sanz

One of the contemporary challenges in anomaly detection is the ability to detect, and differentiate between, both point and collective anomalies within a data sequence or time series. The anomaly package has been developed to provide users…

Applications · Statistics 2024-01-30 Alex Fisch , Daniel Grose , Idris A. Eckley , Paul Fearnhead , Lawrence Bardwell

This study explores the application of autoencoder-based machine learning techniques for anomaly detection to identify exoplanet atmospheres with unconventional chemical signatures using a low-dimensional data representation. We use the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Alexander Roman , Emilie Panek , Roy T. Forestano , Eyup B. Unlu , Katia Matcheva , Konstantin T. Matchev

As radio telescopes increase in sensitivity and flexibility, so do their complexity and data-rates. For this reason automated system health management approaches are becoming increasingly critical to ensure nominal telescope operations. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Michael Mesarcik , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Marco Iacobelli , Elena Ranguelova , Cees de Laat , Rob van Nieuwpoort