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Few-normal shot anomaly detection (FNSAD) aims to detect abnormal regions in images using only a few normal training samples, making the task highly challenging due to limited supervision and the diversity of potential defects. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Morteza Poudineh , Marc Lalonde

Industrial anomaly detection is increasingly relying on foundation models, aiming for strong out-of-distribution generalization and rapid adaptation in real-world deployments. Notably, past studies have primarily focused on textual prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Po-Han Huang , Jeng-Lin Li , Po-Hsuan Huang , Ming-Ching Chang , Wei-Chao Chen

Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection (ZSAD) leverages Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to enable supervision-free industrial inspection. However, existing ZSAD paradigms are constrained by single visual backbones, which struggle to balance global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chenhao Fu , Han Fang , Xiuzheng Zheng , Wenbo Wei , Yonghua Li , Hao Sun , Xuelong Li

Visual anomaly detection is a strongly application-driven field of research. Consequently, the connection between academia and industry is of paramount importance. In this regard, we present the VAND 3.0 Challenge to showcase current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Lars Heckler-Kram , Ashwin Vaidya , Jan-Hendrik Neudeck , Ulla Scheler , Dick Ameln , Samet Akcay , Paula Ramos

Anomaly detection is vital in various industrial scenarios, including the identification of unusual patterns in production lines and the detection of manufacturing defects for quality control. Existing techniques tend to be specialized in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Xiaohao Xu , Yunkang Cao , Huaxin Zhang , Nong Sang , Xiaonan Huang

Visual anomaly detection is vital in real-world applications, such as industrial defect detection and medical diagnosis. However, most existing methods focus on local structural anomalies and fail to detect higher-level functional anomalies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yun Peng , Xiao Lin , Nachuan Ma , Jiayuan Du , Chuangwei Liu , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Large multimodal models (LMMs) exhibit strong task generalization capabilities, offering new opportunities for zero-shot visual anomaly segmentation (ZSAS). However, existing LMM-based segmentation approaches still face fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhen Qu , Xian Tao , Xiaoyi Bao , Dingrong Wang , ShiChen Qu , Zhengtao Zhang , Xingang Wang

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) recognizes and localizes anomalies in previously unseen objects by establishing feature mapping between textual prompts and inspection images, demonstrating excellent research value in flexible industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Huilin Deng , Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Yu Kang

Segment Anything Model (SAM), a prompt-driven foundation model for natural image segmentation, has demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance. However, SAM does not work when directly applied to medical image segmentation, since SAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Bin Xie , Hao Tang , Bin Duan , Dawen Cai , Yan Yan , Gady Agam

Universal visual anomaly detection (AD) aims to identify anomaly images and segment anomaly regions towards open and dynamic scenarios, following zero- and few-shot paradigms without any dataset-specific fine-tuning. We have witnessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Bin-Bin Gao , Chengjie Wang

Current zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) methods show remarkable success in prompting large pre-trained vision-language models to detect anomalies in a target dataset without using any dataset-specific training or demonstration. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Jiawen Zhu , Yew-Soon Ong , Chunhua Shen , Guansong Pang

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) requires detecting and localizing anomalies without access to target-class anomaly samples. Mainstream methods rely on vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP: they build hand-crafted or learned prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yanning Hou , Peiyuan Li , Zirui Liu , Yitong Wang , Yanran Ruan , Jianfeng Qiu , Ke Xu

The Segment-Anything Model (SAM) is a vision foundation model for segmentation with a prompt-driven framework. SAM generates class-agnostic masks based on user-specified instance-referring prompts. However, adapting SAM for automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Hussni Mohd Zakir , Eric Tatt Wei Ho

In recent years, Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) has gained significant attention due to its ability to identify defects using only normal images during training. Many VAD models work without supervision but are still able to provide visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Arianna Stropeni , Valentina Zaccaria , Francesco Borsatti , Davide Dalle Pezze , Manuel Barusco , Gian Antonio Susto

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) enables identifying and localizing defects in unseen categories by relying solely on generalizable features rather than requiring any labeled examples of anomalies. However, existing ZSAD methods, whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zihan Wang , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Narges Armanfard

Although most existing multi-modal salient object detection (SOD) methods demonstrate effectiveness through training models from scratch, the limited multi-modal data hinders these methods from reaching optimality. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kunpeng Wang , Danying Lin , Chenglong Li , Zhengzheng Tu , Bin Luo

The recently introduced Segment Anything Model (SAM), a Visual Foundation Model (VFM), has demonstrated impressive capabilities in zero-shot segmentation tasks across diverse natural image datasets. Despite its success, SAM encounters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Chunpeng Zhou , Kangjie Ning , Qianqian Shen , Sheng Zhou , Zhi Yu , Haishuai Wang

Pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently shown promise in detecting anomalies. However, previous approaches are fundamentally limited by their reliance on human-designed prompts and the lack of accessible anomaly samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Pi-Wei Chen , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin , Wei-Han Chen , Jia Ji , Zih-Ching Chen , Feng-Hao Yeh , Chao-Chun Chen

Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection (ZSAD) is an emerging AD paradigm. Unlike the traditional unsupervised AD setting that requires a large number of normal samples to train a model, ZSAD is more practical for handling data-restricted real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jiacong Xu , Shao-Yuan Lo , Bardia Safaei , Vishal M. Patel , Isht Dwivedi

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has traditionally been framed as binary classification or outlier detection, providing neither interpretable reasoning nor precise spatial localization of anomalous events. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sakshi Agarwal , Aishik Konwer , Ankit Parag Shah