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Anomaly detection in time-series has a wide range of practical applications. While numerous anomaly detection methods have been proposed in the literature, a recent survey concluded that no single method is the most accurate across various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mononito Goswami , Cristian Challu , Laurent Callot , Lenon Minorics , Andrey Kan

Although mainstream unsupervised anomaly detection (AD) algorithms perform well in academic datasets, their performance is limited in practical application due to the ideal experimental setting of clean training data. Training with noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Xi Jiang , Ying Chen , Qiang Nie , Yong Liu , Jianlin Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Jun Liu , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng

The increasing automation in many areas of the Industry expressly demands to design efficient machine-learning solutions for the detection of abnormal events. With the ubiquitous deployment of sensors monitoring nearly continuously the…

The progress of Anomaly Detection (AD) in safety-critical domains, such as transportation, is severely constrained by the lack of large-scale, real-world benchmarks. To address this, we introduce EngineAD, a novel, multivariate dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Hadi Hojjati , Christopher Roth , Rory Woods , Ken Sills , Narges Armanfard

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has emerged as a pivotal task in computer vision, with broad relevance across multiple fields. Recent advances in deep learning have driven significant progress in this area, yet the field remains fragmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Armin Danesh Pazho , Hamed Tabkhi

Recent studies on visual anomaly detection (AD) of industrial objects/textures have achieved quite good performance. They consider an unsupervised setting, specifically the one-class setting, in which we assume the availability of a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Jie Zhang , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

3D Anomaly Detection (AD) is a promising means of controlling the quality of manufactured products. However, existing methods typically require carefully training a task-specific model for each category independently, leading to high cost,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jiayi Cheng , Can Gao , Jie Zhou , Jiajun Wen , Tao Dai , Jinbao Wang

Current unsupervised anomaly localization approaches rely on generative models to learn the distribution of normal images, which is later used to identify potential anomalous regions derived from errors on the reconstructed images. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Julio Silva-Rodríguez , Valery Naranjo , Jose Dolz

Unsupervised embedding learning aims to extract good representation from data without the need for any manual labels, which has been a critical challenge in many supervised learning tasks. This paper proposes a new unsupervised embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Sungwon Han , Yizhan Xu , Sungwon Park , Meeyoung Cha , Cheng-Te Li

Anomaly detection (AD) aims to identify defects using normal-only training data. Existing anomaly detection benchmarks (e.g., MVTec-AD with 15 categories) cover only a narrow range of categories, limiting the evaluation of cross-context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Hai Ling , Jia Guo , Zhulin Tao , Yunkang Cao , Donglin Di , Hongyan Xu , Xiu Su , Yang Song , Lei Fan

Anomaly detection in time series is a complex task that has been widely studied. In recent years, the ability of unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms has received much attention. This trend has led researchers to compare only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Julien Audibert , Pietro Michiardi , Frédéric Guyard , Sébastien Marti , Maria A. Zuluaga

Unsupervised anomaly detection with localization has many practical applications when labeling is infeasible and, moreover, when anomaly examples are completely missing in the train data. While recently proposed models for such data setup…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Denis Gudovskiy , Shun Ishizaka , Kazuki Kozuka

In this paper, we study unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms that learn a neural network representation, i.e. regular patterns of normal data, which anomalies are deviating from. Inspired by a similar concept in engineering, we refer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Simon Klüttermann , Tim Katzke , Emmanuel Müller

In the advancement of industrial informatization, unsupervised anomaly detection technology effectively overcomes the scarcity of abnormal samples and significantly enhances the automation and reliability of smart manufacturing. As an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yuxuan Lin , Yang Chang , Xuan Tong , Jiawen Yu , Antonio Liotta , Guofan Huang , Wei Song , Deyu Zeng , Zongze Wu , Yan Wang , Wenqiang Zhang

Anomaly Detection (AD) and Anomaly Localization (AL) are crucial in fields that demand high reliability, such as medical imaging and industrial monitoring. However, current AD and AL approaches are often susceptible to adversarial attacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mojtaba Nafez , Amirhossein Koochakian , Arad Maleki , Jafar Habibi , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

The essence of unsupervised anomaly detection is to learn the compact distribution of normal samples and detect outliers as anomalies in testing. Meanwhile, the anomalies in real-world are usually subtle and fine-grained in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Ye Zheng , Xiang Wang , Rui Deng , Tianpeng Bao , Rui Zhao , Liwei Wu

We consider the problem of anomaly detection with a small set of partially labeled anomaly examples and a large-scale unlabeled dataset. This is a common scenario in many important applications. Existing related methods either exclusively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Guansong Pang , Anton van den Hengel , Chunhua Shen , Longbing Cao

Despite the continuous proposal of new anomaly detection algorithms and extensive benchmarking efforts, progress seems to stagnate, with only minor performance differences between established baselines and new algorithms. In this position…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Philipp Röchner , Simon Klüttermann , Franz Rothlauf , Daniel Schlör

Weakly supervised anomaly detection (WSAD) has developed in three primary directions: incomplete, inexact, and inaccurate supervision. However, these directions remain isolated, lacking a unified framework to assess whether they address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xu Yao , Siyuan Zhou , Zhenbo Wu , Chaochuan Hou , Shuang Liang , Shiping Wang , Hailiang Huang , Songqiao Han , Minqi Jiang

Unsupervised anomaly detection in brain images is crucial for identifying injuries and pathologies without access to labels. However, the accurate localization of anomalies in medical images remains challenging due to the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Farzad Beizaee , Gregory Lodygensky , Christian Desrosiers , Jose Dolz