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In this paper, we address the challenging problem of single-scene, fully unsupervised video anomaly detection (VAD), where raw videos containing both normal and abnormal events are used directly for training and testing without any labels.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuang Geng , Junkai Zhou , Kang Yang , Pan He , Zhuoyang Zhou , Jose C. Principe , Joel Harley , Ivan Ruchkin

While classic video anomaly detection (VAD) requires labeled normal videos for training, emerging unsupervised VAD (UVAD) aims to discover anomalies directly from fully unlabeled videos. However, existing UVAD methods still rely on shallow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Guang Yu , Siqi Wang , Zhiping Cai , Xinwang Liu , Chuanfu Xu , Chengkun Wu

Visual sensory anomaly detection (AD) is an essential problem in computer vision, which is gaining momentum recently thanks to the development of AI for good. Compared with semantic anomaly detection which detects anomaly at the label level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Xi Jiang , Guoyang Xie , Jinbao Wang , Yong Liu , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng , Yaochu Jin

Deploying video anomaly detection in practice is hampered by the scarcity and collection cost of real abnormal footage. We address this by training without any real abnormal videos while evaluating under the standard weakly supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Satoshi Hashimoto , Hitoshi Nishimura , Yanan Wang , Mori Kurokawa

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

This paper investigates the performance of diffusion models for video anomaly detection (VAD) within the most challenging but also the most operational scenario in which the data annotations are not used. As being sparse, diverse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Anil Osman Tur , Nicola Dall'Asen , Cigdem Beyan , Elisa Ricci

In industrial vision, the anomaly detection problem can be addressed with an autoencoder trained to map an arbitrary image, i.e. with or without any defect, to a clean image, i.e. without any defect. In this approach, anomaly detection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Anne-Sophie Collin , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

We propose a novel approach to video anomaly detection: we treat feature vectors extracted from videos as realizations of a random variable with a fixed distribution and model this distribution with a neural network. This lets us estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jakub Micorek , Horst Possegger , Dominik Narnhofer , Horst Bischof , Mateusz Kozinski

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) aims to detect anomalies without labeled data, a necessity in many machine learning applications where anomalous samples are rare or not available. Most state-of-the-art methods fall into two categories:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Nicolas Pinon , Carole Lartizien

Edge detection is typically viewed as a pixel-level classification problem mainly addressed by discriminative methods. Recently, generative edge detection methods, especially diffusion model based solutions, are initialized in the edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Caixia Zhou , Yaping Huang , Mochu Xiang , Jiahui Ren , Haibin Ling , Jing Zhang

Responding to the challenge of detecting unusual radar targets in a well identified environment, innovative anomaly and novelty detection methods keep emerging in the literature. This work aims at presenting a benchmark gathering common and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Martin Bauw , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo , Claude Adnet , Olivier Airiau

Convolutional autoencoders have emerged as popular methods for unsupervised defect segmentation on image data. Most commonly, this task is performed by thresholding a pixel-wise reconstruction error based on an $\ell^p$ distance. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Paul Bergmann , Sindy Löwe , Michael Fauser , David Sattlegger , Carsten Steger

How can we detect anomalies: that is, samples that significantly differ from a given set of high-dimensional data, such as images or sensor data? This is a practical problem with numerous applications and is also relevant to the goal of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Adam Goodge , Bryan Hooi , See Kiong Ng , Wee Siong Ng

Anomaly detection in images plays a significant role for many applications across all industries, such as disease diagnosis in healthcare or quality assurance in manufacturing. Manual inspection of images, when extended over a monotonously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Vincent Wilmet , Sauraj Verma , Tabea Redl , Håkon Sandaker , Zhenning Li

Automated detection of abnormalities in data has been studied in research area in recent years because of its diverse applications in practice including video surveillance, industrial damage detection and network intrusion detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Hung Vu , Dinh Phung , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Anthony Trevors , Svetha Venkatesh

Video anomaly detection is a subject of great interest across industrial and academic domains due to its crucial role in computer vision applications. However, the inherent unpredictability of anomalies and the scarcity of anomaly samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Yalong Jiang , Liquan Mao

Deep generative models have been demonstrated as problematic in the unsupervised out-of-distribution (OOD) detection task, where they tend to assign higher likelihoods to OOD samples. Previous studies on this issue are usually not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Zezhen Zeng , Bin Liu

Most advanced unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) methods rely on modeling feature representations of frozen encoder networks pre-trained on large-scale datasets, e.g. ImageNet. However, the features extracted from the encoders that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jia Guo , Shuai Lu , Lize Jia , Weihang Zhang , Huiqi Li

Ensuring the safety of surgical instruments requires reliable detection of visual defects. However, manual inspection is prone to error, and existing automated defect detection methods, typically trained on natural/industrial images, fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Joseph Huang , Yichi Zhang , Jingxi Yu , Wei Chen , Seunghyun Hwang , Qiang Qiu , Amy R. Reibman , Edward J. Delp , Fengqing Zhu

In recent years, the deterioration of artificial materials used in structures has become a serious social issue, increasing the importance of inspections. Non-destructive testing is gaining increased demand due to its capability to inspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yusaku Ando , Miya Nakajima , Takahiro Saitoh , Tsuyoshi Kato