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The rapid expansion of data from diverse sources has made anomaly detection (AD) increasingly essential for identifying unexpected observations that may signal system failures, security breaches, or fraud. As datasets become more complex…

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Shearography is a non-destructive testing method for detecting subsurface defects, offering high sensitivity and full-field inspection capabilities. However, its industrial adoption remains limited due to the need for expert interpretation.…

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Deep learning methods have proven to outperform traditional computer vision methods in various areas of image processing. However, the application of deep learning in industrial surface defect detection systems is challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Dominik Martin , Simon Heinzel , Johannes Kunze von Bischhoffshausen , Niklas Kühl

Anomaly detection, a.k.a. outlier detection or novelty detection, has been a lasting yet active research area in various research communities for several decades. There are still some unique problem complexities and challenges that require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Guansong Pang , Chunhua Shen , Longbing Cao , Anton van den Hengel

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

Deep learning approaches to anomaly detection have recently improved the state of the art in detection performance on complex datasets such as large collections of images or text. These results have sparked a renewed interest in the anomaly…

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a crucial role in various domains, including cybersecurity, finance, and healthcare, by identifying patterns or events that deviate from normal behaviour. In recent years, significant progress has been made in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hadi Hojjati , Thi Kieu Khanh Ho , Narges Armanfard

Manufacturing industries require efficient and voluminous production of high-quality finished goods. In the context of Industry 4.0, visual anomaly detection poses an optimistic solution for automatically controlled product quality with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Devang Mehta , Noah Klarmann

Time series anomaly detection presents various challenges due to the sequential and dynamic nature of time-dependent data. Traditional unsupervised methods frequently encounter difficulties in generalization, often overfitting to known…

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Anomaly detection is being regarded as an unsupervised learning task as anomalies stem from adversarial or unlikely events with unknown distributions. However, the predictive performance of purely unsupervised anomaly detection often fails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Nico Goernitz , Marius Micha Kloft , Konrad Rieck , Ulf Brefeld

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

Traditional machine learning-based visual inspection systems require extensive data collection and repetitive model training to improve accuracy. These systems typically require expensive camera, computing equipment and significant machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yunbo Long , Zhengyang Ling , Sam Brook , Duncan McFarlane , Alexandra Brintrup

Universal anomaly detection still remains a challenging problem in machine learning and medical image analysis. It is possible to learn an expected distribution from a single class of normative samples, e.g., through epistemic uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Johanna P. Müller , Matthew Baugh , Jeremy Tan , Mischa Dombrowski , Bernhard Kainz

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection has become a popular method to detect pathologies in medical images as it does not require supervision or labels for training. Most commonly, the anomaly detection model generates a "normal" version of an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Felix Meissen , Johannes Paetzold , Georgios Kaissis , Daniel Rueckert

Detecting anomalies using deep learning has become a major challenge over the last years, and is becoming increasingly promising in several fields. The introduction of self-supervised learning has greatly helped many methods including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Loic Jezequel , Ngoc-Son Vu , Jean Beaudet , Aymeric Histace

The increasing digitization of medical imaging enables machine learning based improvements in detecting, visualizing and segmenting lesions, easing the workload for medical experts. However, supervised machine learning requires reliable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Maximilian E. Tschuchnig , Michael Gadermayr

Deep Learning (DL) is vulnerable to out-of-distribution and adversarial examples resulting in incorrect outputs. To make DL more robust, several posthoc (or runtime) anomaly detection techniques to detect (and discard) these anomalous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Saikiran Bulusu , Bhavya Kailkhura , Bo Li , Pramod K. Varshney , Dawn Song

Automatic detection of visual anomalies and changes in the environment has been a topic of recurrent attention in the fields of machine learning and computer vision over the past decades. A visual anomaly or change detection algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Sahar Salimpour , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Conventional defect detection systems in Automated Fibre Placement (AFP) typically rely on end-to-end supervised learning, necessitating a substantial number of labelled defective samples for effective training. However, the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Assef Ghamisi , Todd Charter , Li Ji , Maxime Rivard , Gil Lund , Homayoun Najjaran

Automatic log file analysis enables early detection of relevant incidents such as system failures. In particular, self-learning anomaly detection techniques capture patterns in log data and subsequently report unexpected log event…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Max Landauer , Sebastian Onder , Florian Skopik , Markus Wurzenberger