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In the realm of diverse high-dimensional data, images play a significant role across various processes of manufacturing systems where efficient image anomaly detection has emerged as a core technology of utmost importance. However, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Ji Song , Xing Wang , Jianguo Wu , Xiaowei Yue

During the operation of industrial robots, unusual events may endanger the safety of humans and the quality of production. When collecting data to detect such cases, it is not ensured that data from all potentially occurring errors is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Jan Thieß Brockmann , Marco Rudolph , Bodo Rosenhahn , Bastian Wandt

We introduce the first comprehensive 3D dataset for the task of unsupervised anomaly detection and localization. It is inspired by real-world visual inspection scenarios in which a model has to detect various types of defects on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Paul Bergmann , Xin Jin , David Sattlegger , Carsten Steger

Surface inspection systems are an important application domain for computer vision, as they are used for defect detection and classification in the manufacturing industry. Existing systems use hand-crafted features which require extensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-10 Selim Arikan , Kiran Varanasi , Didier Stricker

Automated surface-anomaly detection using machine learning has become an interesting and promising area of research, with a very high and direct impact on the application domain of visual inspection. Deep-learning methods have become the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Domen Tabernik , Samo Šela , Jure Skvarč , Danijel Skočaj

Event cameras capture brightness changes asynchronously with microsecond resolution, yet existing optical flow methods fail to fully exploit this temporal continuity. Frame-based approaches impose artificial accumulation latency and suffer…

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Traditional discriminative computer vision relies predominantly on static projections, mapping input features to outputs in a single computational step. Although efficient, this paradigm lacks the iterative refinement and robustness…

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Oversight in medical images is a crucial problem, and timely reporting of medical images is desired. Therefore, an all-purpose anomaly detection method that can detect virtually all types of lesions/diseases in a given image is strongly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 H. Shibata , S. Hanaoka , Y. Nomura , T. Nakao , I. Sato , D. Sato , N. Hayashi , O. Abe

An approach to utilize recent advances in deep generative models for anomaly detection in a granular (continuous) sense on a real-world image dataset with quality issues is detailed using recent normalizing flow models, with implications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 John Just

Optical flow models trained on high-quality data often degrade severely when confronted with real-world corruptions such as blur, noise, and compression artifacts. To overcome this limitation, we formulate Degradation-Aware Optical Flow, a…

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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

Underwater images suffer from light refraction and absorption, which impairs visibility and interferes the subsequent applications. Existing underwater image enhancement methods mainly focus on image quality improvement, ignoring the effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Zengxi Zhang , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

We propose a simple, interpretable framework for solving a wide range of image reconstruction problems such as denoising and deconvolution. Given a corrupted input image, the model synthesizes a spatially varying linear filter which, when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-29 Shu Kong , Charless Fowlkes

We aim at constructing a high performance model for defect detection that detects unknown anomalous patterns of an image without anomalous data. To this end, we propose a two-stage framework for building anomaly detectors using normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Chun-Liang Li , Kihyuk Sohn , Jinsung Yoon , Tomas Pfister

Anomalies in images occur in various scales from a small hole on a carpet to a large stain. However, anomaly detection based on sparse coding, one of the widely used anomaly detection methods, has an issue in dealing with anomalies that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Ryuji Imamura , Kohei Azuma , Atsushi Hanamoto , Atsunori Kanemura

Latent defect screening is challenged by extremely low failure rates, high-dimensional test data, and absence of labeled anomalies. We propose the first unsupervised anomaly detection framework incorporating a Diffusion Transformer. Raw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuxuan Yin , Chen He , Todd Jacobs , Jialei He , Boxun Xu , Robert Jin , Peng Li

In this paper, we introduce the novel state-of-the-art Dual-attention Transformer and Discriminative Flow (DADF) framework for visual anomaly detection. Based on only normal knowledge, visual anomaly detection has wide applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Haiming Yao , Wei Luo , Wenyong Yu

Microfluidic devices offer numerous advantages in medical applications, including the capture of single cells in microwell-based platforms for genomic analysis. As the cost of sequencing decreases, the demand for high-throughput single-cell…

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In the realm of industrial manufacturing, product inspection remains a significant bottleneck, with only a small fraction of manufactured items undergoing inspection for surface defects. Advances in imaging systems and AI can allow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Tapan Ganatma Nakkina , Adithyaa Karthikeyan , Yuhao Zhong , Ceyhun Eksin , Satish T. S. Bukkapatnam