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In this paper, we explore a weakly supervised method for anomaly detection. Since annotating videos is time-consuming, we only look at weak video-level labels during training. This means that given a video, we know that it is either normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Urvi Gianchandani , Praveen Tirupattur , Mubarak Shah

We introduce an adaptive method with formal quality guarantees for weak supervision in a non-stationary setting. Our goal is to infer the unknown labels of a sequence of data by using weak supervision sources that provide independent noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Alessio Mazzetto , Reza Esfandiarpoor , Akash Singirikonda , Eli Upfal , Stephen H. Bach

We apply the model-agnostic anomaly detection method Cathode - originally developed for particle physics - to search for stellar streams in Gaia data. We combine Cathode with Via Machinae 3.0: a re-optimized version of the stellar stream…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-11 Anna Hallin , David Shih , Claudius Krause , Matthew R. Buckley

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

A common class of problems in remote sensing is scene classification, a fundamentally important task for natural hazards identification, geographic image retrieval, and environment monitoring. Recent developments in this field rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Suhas Kotha , Anirudh Koul , Siddha Ganju , Meher Kasam

The immense amount of time series data produced by astronomical surveys has called for the use of machine learning algorithms to discover and classify several million celestial sources. In the case of variable stars, supervised learning…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 R. Pantoja , M. Catelan , K. Pichara , P. Protopapas

Advances in astronomy are often driven by serendipitous discoveries. As survey astronomy continues to grow, the size and complexity of astronomical databases will increase, and the ability of astronomers to manually scour data and make such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Daniel Giles , Lucianne Walkowicz

The hierarchical model of galaxy formation predicts that the Milky Way halo is populated by tidal debris of dwarf galaxies and globular clusters. Due to long dynamical times, debris from the lowest mass objects remains coherent as thin and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-31 Ana Bonaca , Adrian M. Price-Whelan

The accumulation of time-series data and the absence of labels make time-series Anomaly Detection (AD) a self-supervised deep learning task. Single-normality-assumption-based methods, which reveal only a certain aspect of the whole…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Rui Wang , Chongwei Liu , Xudong Mou , Kai Gao , Xiaohui Guo , Pin Liu , Tianyu Wo , Xudong Liu

Survey telescopes such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Square Kilometre Array will discover billions of static and dynamic astronomical sources. Properly mined, these enormous datasets will likely be wellsprings of rare or unknown…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-07 Michelle Lochner , Bruce A. Bassett

Anomalies are samples that significantly deviate from the rest of the data and their detection plays a major role in building machine learning models that can be reliably used in applications such as data-driven design and novelty…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-19 Amin Yousefpour , Mehdi Shishehbor , Zahra Zanjani Foumani , Ramin Bostanabad

The unprecedented volume and quality of data from space- and ground-based telescopes present an opportunity for machine learning to identify new classes of variable stars and peculiar systems that may have been overlooked by traditional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 P. Ranaivomanana , C. Johnston , G. Iorio , P. J. Groot , M. Uzundag , T. Kupfer , C. Aerts

The Gaia mission has led to the discovery of over 100 stellar streams in the Milky Way, most of which likely originated from globular clusters (GCs). As the upcoming wide-field surveys can potentially continue to increase the number of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-12 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Colin Holm-Hansen

Learning to detect real-world anomalous events through video-level labels is a challenging task due to the rare occurrence of anomalies as well as noise in the labels. In this work, we propose a weakly supervised anomaly detection method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Arif Mahmood , Marcella Astrid , Seung-Ik Lee

Most of the existing methods for anomaly detection use only positive data to learn the data distribution, thus they usually need a pre-defined threshold at the detection stage to determine whether a test instance is an outlier.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Kai Tian , Shuigeng Zhou , Jianping Fan , Jihong Guan

As radio telescopes increase in sensitivity and flexibility, so do their complexity and data-rates. For this reason automated system health management approaches are becoming increasingly critical to ensure nominal telescope operations. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Michael Mesarcik , Albert-Jan Boonstra , Marco Iacobelli , Elena Ranguelova , Cees de Laat , Rob van Nieuwpoort

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) has non-Gaussian features in the temperature fluctuations. An anomalous cold spot surrounded with a hot ring, called the Cold Spot is one of such features. If a large underdence region (supervoid)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Yuichi Higuchi , Kaiki Taro Inoue

A deep learning approach is proposed to detect data and system anomalies using high-resolution continuous point-on-wave (CPOW) or phasor measurements. Both the anomaly and anomaly-free measurement models are assumed to have unknown temporal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Kursat Rasim Mestav , Xinyi Wang , Lang Tong

Video anomaly detection is to determine whether there are any abnormal events, behaviors or objects in a given video, which enables effective and intelligent public safety management. As video anomaly labeling is both time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yang Wang , Jiaogen Zhou , Jihong Guan

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a pivotal role in numerous web-based applications, including malware detection, anti-money laundering, device failure detection, and network fault analysis. Most methods, which rely on unsupervised learning, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Haihong Zhao , Chenyi Zi , Yang Liu , Chen Zhang , Yan Zhou , Jia Li