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Anomaly detection identifies departures from expected behavior in safety-critical settings. When target-domain normal data are unavailable, zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) leverages vision-language models (VLMs). However, CLIP's coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Alireza Salehi , Ehsan Karami , Sepehr Noey , Sahand Noey , Makoto Yamada , Reshad Hosseini , Mohammad Sabokrou

Anomaly detection (AD) is essential in identifying rare and often critical events in complex systems, finding applications in fields such as network intrusion detection, financial fraud detection, and fault detection in infrastructure and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Hao Dong , Gaëtan Frusque , Yue Zhao , Eleni Chatzi , Olga Fink

In this paper, we address the problem of image anomaly detection and segmentation. Anomaly detection involves making a binary decision as to whether an input image contains an anomaly, and anomaly segmentation aims to locate the anomaly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Jihun Yi , Sungroh Yoon

Automated surface inspection is an important task in many manufacturing industries and often requires machine learning driven solutions. Supervised approaches, however, can be challenging, since it is often difficult to obtain large amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Matthias Haselmann , Dieter P. Gruber , Paul Tabatabai

Traditional deep learning models often lack annotated data, especially in cross-domain applications such as anomaly detection, which is critical for early disease diagnosis in medicine and defect detection in industry. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wahyu Rahmaniar , Kenji Suzuki

Anomaly detection is a core capability for robotic perception and industrial inspection, yet most existing benchmarks are collected under controlled conditions with fixed viewpoints and stable illumination, failing to reflect real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Kaichen Zhou , Xinhai Chang , Taewhan Kim , Jiadong Zhang , Yang Cao , Chufei Peng , Fangneng Zhan , Hao Zhao , Hao Dong , Kai Ming Ting , Ye Zhu

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

Automated visual inspection in medical-device manufacturing faces unique challenges, including extremely low defect rates, limited annotated data, hardware restrictions on production lines, and the need for validated, explainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Julio Zanon Diaz , Georgios Siogkas , Peter Corcoran

Zero-shot image anomaly classification (AC) and segmentation (AS) are vital for industrial quality control, detecting defects without prior training data. Existing representation-based methods compare patch features with nearest neighbors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tai Le-Gia , Ahn Jaehyun

We introduce Neural Contextual Anomaly Detection (NCAD), a framework for anomaly detection on time series that scales seamlessly from the unsupervised to supervised setting, and is applicable to both univariate and multivariate time series.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Chris U. Carmona , François-Xavier Aubet , Valentin Flunkert , Jan Gasthaus

Being able to spot defective parts is a critical component in large-scale industrial manufacturing. A particular challenge that we address in this work is the cold-start problem: fit a model using nominal (non-defective) example images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Karsten Roth , Latha Pemula , Joaquin Zepeda , Bernhard Schölkopf , Thomas Brox , Peter Gehler

The detection of out of distribution samples for image classification has been widely researched. Safety critical applications, such as autonomous driving, would benefit from the ability to localise the unusual objects causing the image to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Matt Angus , Krzysztof Czarnecki , Rick Salay

In this study, a new Anomaly Detection (AD) approach for industrial and medical images is proposed. This method leverages the theoretical strengths of unsupervised learning and the data availability of both normal and abnormal classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Arnaud Bougaham , Valentin Delchevalerie , Mohammed El Adoui , Benoît Frénay

Traditional reconstruction-based methods have struggled to achieve competitive performance in anomaly detection. In this paper, we introduce Denoising Diffusion Anomaly Detection (DDAD), a novel denoising process for image reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Arian Mousakhan , Thomas Brox , Jawad Tayyub

Unsupervised anomaly detection (AD) in medical images aims to identify abnormal regions without relying on pixel-level annotations, which is crucial for scalable and label-efficient diagnostic systems. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Jiayu Huo , Jingyuan Hong , Liyun Chen

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

Visual anomaly detection targets to detect images that notably differ from normal pattern, and it has found extensive application in identifying defective parts within the manufacturing industry. These anomaly detection paradigms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Anindya Sundar Das , Guansong Pang , Monowar Bhuyan

In the realm of machine learning, the study of anomaly detection and localization within image data has gained substantial traction, particularly for practical applications such as industrial defect detection. While the majority of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Wenping Jin , Fei Guo , Li Zhu

Industrial defect detection is commonly addressed with anomaly detection (AD) methods where no or only incomplete data of potentially occurring defects is available. This work discovers previously unknown problems of student-teacher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Marco Rudolph , Tom Wehrbein , Bodo Rosenhahn , Bastian Wandt

Visual defect detection plays an important role in intelligent industry. Patch based methods consider visual images as a collection of image patches according to positions, which have stronger discriminative ability for small defects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Chao Han , Yudong Yan