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To facilitate reliable deployments of autonomous robots in the real world, Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection capabilities are often required. A powerful approach for OOD detection is based on density estimation with Normalizing Flows…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Jianxiang Feng , Jongseok Lee , Simon Geisler , Stephan Gunnemann , Rudolph Triebel

Many works have studied the efficacy of state machines for detecting anomalies within NetFlows. These works typically learn a model from unlabeled data and compute anomaly scores for arbitrary traces based on their likelihood of occurrence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Clinton Cao , Agathe Blaise , Annibale Panichella , Sicco Verwer

River water-quality monitoring is increasingly conducted using automated in situ sensors, enabling timelier identification of unexpected values. However, anomalies caused by technical issues confound these data, while the volume and…

Recently, anomaly detection and localization in multimedia data have received significant attention among the machine learning community. In real-world applications such as medical diagnosis and industrial defect detection, anomalies only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Chaoqin Huang , Qinwei Xu , Yanfeng Wang , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang

In recent years, there have been many practical applications of anomaly detection such as in predictive maintenance, detection of credit fraud, network intrusion, and system failure. The goal of anomaly detection is to identify in the test…

Applications · Statistics 2020-06-12 Zekun Xu , Deovrat Kakde , Arin Chaudhuri

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is a critical task for safe deployment of learning systems in the open world setting. In this work, we investigate the use of feature density estimation via normalizing flows for OOD detection and present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Evan D. Cook , Marc-Antoine Lavoie , Steven L. Waslander

Resonant anomaly detection is a promising framework for model-independent searches for new particles. Weakly supervised resonant anomaly detection methods compare data with a potential signal against a template of the Standard Model (SM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-16 Tobias Golling , Samuel Klein , Radha Mastandrea , Benjamin Nachman

Modern optical flow methods make use of salient scene feature points detected and matched within the scene as a basis for sparse-to-dense optical flow estimation. Current feature detectors however either give sparse, non uniform point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Felix Stephenson , Toby Breckon , Ioannis Katramados

This paper proposes a novel optimization principle and its implementation for unsupervised anomaly detection in sound (ADS) using an autoencoder (AE). The goal of unsupervised-ADS is to detect unknown anomalous sound without training data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-23 Yuma Koizumi , Shoichiro Saito , Hisashi Uematsum Yuta Kawachi , Noboru Harada

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) methods aim to identify anomalies in test samples comparing them with a normative distribution learned from a dataset known to be anomaly-free. Approaches based on generative models offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Sergio Naval Marimont , Vasilis Siomos , Matthew Baugh , Christos Tzelepis , Bernhard Kainz , Giacomo Tarroni

The high performance of denoising diffusion models for image generation has paved the way for their application in unsupervised medical anomaly detection. As diffusion-based methods require a lot of GPU memory and have long sampling times,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Julia Wolleb , Florentin Bieder , Paul Friedrich , Peter Zhang , Alicia Durrer , Philippe C. Cattin

Tuning of measurement models is challenging in real-world applications of sequential Monte Carlo methods. Recent advances in differentiable particle filters have led to various efforts to learn measurement models through neural networks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Xiongjie Chen , Yunpeng Li

Diffusion models approximate the denoising distribution as a Gaussian and predict its mean, whereas flow matching models reparameterize the Gaussian mean as flow velocity. However, they underperform in few-step sampling due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hansheng Chen , Kai Zhang , Hao Tan , Zexiang Xu , Fujun Luan , Leonidas Guibas , Gordon Wetzstein , Sai Bi

Safety validation for Level 4 autonomous vehicles (AVs) is currently bottlenecked by the inability to scale the detection of rare, high-risk long-tail scenarios using traditional rule-based heuristics. We present Deep-Flow, an unsupervised…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Antonio Guillen-Perez

Flow-based generative models are powerful exact likelihood models with efficient sampling and inference. Despite their computational efficiency, flow-based models generally have much worse density modeling performance compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Jonathan Ho , Xi Chen , Aravind Srinivas , Yan Duan , Pieter Abbeel

Normalizing Flows (NFs) are a classical family of likelihood-based methods that have received revived attention. Recent efforts such as TARFlow have shown that NFs are capable of achieving promising performance on image modeling tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Tianrong Chen , Jiatao Gu , David Berthelot , Joshua Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Video anomaly detection is an ill-posed problem because it relies on many parameters such as appearance, pose, camera angle, background, and more. We distill the problem to anomaly detection of human pose, thus decreasing the risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Or Hirschorn , Shai Avidan

Deepfake detectors face growing challenges in generalization as new image synthesis techniques emerge. In particular, deepfakes generated by diffusion models are highly photorealistic and often evade detectors trained on GAN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hongyuan Qi , Wenjin Hou , Hehe Fan , Jun Xiao

We present the task description and discussion on the results of the DCASE 2021 Challenge Task 2. In 2020, we organized an unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) task, identifying whether a given sound was normal or anomalous without…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Yohei Kawaguchi , Keisuke Imoto , Yuma Koizumi , Noboru Harada , Daisuke Niizumi , Kota Dohi , Ryo Tanabe , Harsh Purohit , Takashi Endo

Despite significant advances in the area, adversarial robustness remains a critical challenge in systems employing machine learning models. The removal of adversarial perturbations at inference time, known as adversarial purification, has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Elias Collaert , Abel Rodríguez , Sander Joos , Lieven Desmet , Vera Rimmer