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Anomaly detection and localization in images is a growing field in computer vision. In this area, a seemingly understudied problem is anomaly clustering, i.e., identifying and grouping different types of anomalies in a fully unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Andrei-Timotei Ardelean , Tim Weyrich

We propose an unsupervised image segmentation method using features from pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models. Inspired by classic spectral clustering approaches, we construct adjacency matrices from self-attention layers between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Daniela Ivanova , Marco Aversa , Paul Henderson , John Williamson

Despite tremendous efforts, it is very challenging to generate a robust model to assist in the accurate quantification assessment of COVID-19 on chest CT images. Due to the nature of blurred boundaries, the supervised segmentation methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Yang Yang , Jiancong Chen , Ruixuan Wang , Ting Ma , Lingwei Wang , Jie Chen , Wei-Shi Zheng , Tong Zhang

Unsupervised anomaly detection aims to build models to effectively detect unseen anomalies by only training on the normal data. Although previous reconstruction-based methods have made fruitful progress, their generalization ability is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yuxin Zhang , Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Han Yu , Tao Qin

Contrastive Analysis (CA) detects anomalies by contrasting patterns unique to a target group (e.g., unhealthy subjects) from those in a background group (e.g., healthy subjects). In the context of brain MRIs, existing CA approaches rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Cristiano Patrício , Carlo Alberto Barbano , Attilio Fiandrotti , Riccardo Renzulli , Marco Grangetto , Luis F. Teixeira , João C. Neves

Dynamic graph anomaly detection (DGAD) is critical for many real-world applications but remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled anomalies. Existing methods are either unsupervised or semi-supervised: unsupervised methods avoid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yuxing Tian , Yiyan Qi , Fengran Mo , Weixu Zhang , Jian Guo , Jian-Yun Nie

Unsupervised anomaly detection aims to detect defective parts of a sample by having access, during training, to a set of normal, i.e. defect-free, data. It has many applications in fields, such as industrial inspection or medical imaging,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Robin Trombetta , Carole Lartizien

Detecting novel anomalies in medical imaging is challenging due to the limited availability of labeled data for rare abnormalities, which often display high variability and subtlety. This challenge is further compounded when small abnormal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Jingkun Chen , Guang Yang , Xiao Zhang , Jingchao Peng , Tianlu Zhang , Jianguo Zhang , Jungong Han , Vicente Grau

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Medical experts often manually segment images to obtain diagnostic statistics and discard the resulting annotations. We aim to train segmentation models to alleviate this burden, but constrained to the retained summary statistics (e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Omkar Kulkarni , Edward Raff , Tim Oates

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) from images strives to model normal data distributions, creating discriminative representations to distinguish and precisely localize anomalies. Despite recent advancements in the efficient and unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Wenxin Ma , Qingsong Yao , Xiang Zhang , Zhelong Huang , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

Unsupervised anomaly segmentation approaches to pathology segmentation train a model on images of healthy subjects, that they define as the 'normal' data distribution. At inference, they aim to segment any pathologies in new images as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Ziyun Liang , Xiaoqing Guo , J. Alison Noble , Konstantinos Kamnitsas

This work presents a novel deep learning framework for segmenting cerebral vasculature in hyperspectral brain images. We address the critical challenge of severe label scarcity, which impedes conventional supervised training. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tim Mach , Daniel Rueckert , Alex Berger , Laurin Lux , Ivan Ezhov

Detection of visual anomalies refers to the problem of finding patterns in different imaging data that do not conform to the expected visual appearance and is a widely studied problem in different domains. Due to the nature of anomaly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Dejan Stepec , Danijel Skocaj

Unsupervised image segmentation aims at assigning the pixels with similar feature into a same cluster without annotation, which is an important task in computer vision. Due to lack of prior knowledge, most of existing model usually need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Zhichao Wu , Lei Guo , Hao Zhang , Dan Xu

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

The recent prevalence of deep neural networks has lead semantic segmentation networks to achieve human-level performance in the medical field when sufficient training data is provided. Such networks however fail to generalize when tasked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Serban Stan , Mohammad Rostami

The performance of supervised deep learning methods for medical image segmentation is often limited by the scarcity of labeled data. As a promising research direction, semi-supervised learning addresses this dilemma by leveraging unlabeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Zihang Liu , Chunhui Zhao

The inability of state-of-the-art semantic segmentation methods to detect anomaly instances hinders them from being deployed in safety-critical and complex applications, such as autonomous driving. Recent approaches have focused on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Giancarlo Di Biase , Hermann Blum , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

Robust autonomous driving requires agents to accurately identify unexpected areas (anomalies) in urban scenes. To this end, some critical issues remain open: how to design advisable metric to measure anomalies, and how to properly generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yuanpeng Tu , Yuxi Li , Boshen Zhang , Liang Liu , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Cai Rong Zhao