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Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) is a key data mining problem owing to its wide real-world applications. Due to the complete absence of supervision signals, UAD methods rely on implicit assumptions about anomalous patterns (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Hangting Ye , Zhining Liu , Xinyi Shen , Wei Cao , Shun Zheng , Xiaofan Gui , Huishuai Zhang , Yi Chang , Jiang Bian

In this work, we introduce a challenging image restoration task, referred to as SuperInpaint, which aims to reconstruct missing regions in low-resolution images and generate completed images with arbitrarily higher resolutions. We have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Canyu Zhang , Qing Guo , Xiaoguang Li , Renjie Wan , Hongkai Yu , Ivor Tsang , Song Wang

Recently, anomaly detection and localization in multimedia data have received significant attention among the machine learning community. In real-world applications such as medical diagnosis and industrial defect detection, anomalies only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Chaoqin Huang , Qinwei Xu , Yanfeng Wang , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang

Unsupervised anomaly detection in brain images is crucial for identifying injuries and pathologies without access to labels. However, the accurate localization of anomalies in medical images remains challenging due to the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Farzad Beizaee , Gregory Lodygensky , Christian Desrosiers , Jose Dolz

Unsupervised Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection consists in identifying anomalous regions in images leveraging only models trained on images of healthy anatomy. An established approach is to tokenize images and model the distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Sergio Naval Marimont , Vasilis Siomos , Giacomo Tarroni

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) is a widely adopted approach in industry due to rare anomaly occurrences and data imbalance. A desirable characteristic of an UAD model is contained generalization ability which excels in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 YeongHyeon Park , Sungho Kang , Myung Jin Kim , Hyeonho Jeong , Hyunkyu Park , Hyeong Seok Kim , Juneho Yi

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) techniques aim to identify and localize anomalies without relying on annotations, only leveraging a model trained on a dataset known to be free of anomalies. Diffusion models learn to modify inputs $x$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Sergio Naval Marimont , Matthew Baugh , Vasilis Siomos , Christos Tzelepis , Bernhard Kainz , Giacomo Tarroni

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) seeks to localize the anomaly mask of an input image with respect to normal samples. Either by reconstructing normal counterparts (reconstruction-based) or by learning an image feature embedding space…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Zhe Zhang , Mingxiu Cai , Hanxiao Wang , Gaochang Wu , Tianyou Chai , Xiatian Zhu

The core challenge in unsupervised anomaly detection is identifying abnormal patterns without prior knowledge of their characteristics. While existing methods have addressed aspects of this problem, they often struggle to learn a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Prithul Sarker , Sushmita Sarker , Nicholas G. Murray , Alireza Tavakkoli

One pivot challenge for image anomaly (AD) detection is to learn discriminative information only from normal class training images. Most image reconstruction based AD methods rely on the discriminative capability of reconstruction error.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Dongyun Lin , Yiqun Li , Shudong Xie , Tin Lay Nwe , Sheng Dong

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

Unsupervised anomaly detection plays a pivotal role in industrial defect inspection and medical image analysis, with most methods relying on the reconstruction framework. However, these methods may suffer from over-generalization, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Wei Luo , Peng Xing , Yunkang Cao , Haiming Yao , Weiming Shen , Zechao Li

Handling contaminated data poses a critical challenge in anomaly detection, as traditional models assume training on purely normal data. Conventional methods mitigate contamination by relying on fixed contamination ratios, but discrepancies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jungi Lee , Jungkwon Kim , Chi Zhang , Kwangsun Yoo , Seok-Joo Byun

Visual surface anomaly detection aims to detect local image regions that significantly deviate from normal appearance. Recent surface anomaly detection methods rely on generative models to accurately reconstruct the normal areas and to fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Vitjan Zavrtanik , Matej Kristan , Danijel Skočaj

Reconstruction-based methods play an important role in unsupervised anomaly detection in images. Ideally, we expect a perfect reconstruction for normal samples and poor reconstruction for abnormal samples. Since the generalizability of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Jinlei Hou , Yingying Zhang , Qiaoyong Zhong , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu , Hong Zhou

Anomaly detection in medical imaging is a challenging task in contexts where abnormalities are not annotated. This problem can be addressed through unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) methods, which identify features that do not match with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Geoffroy Oudoumanessah , Carole Lartizien , Michel Dojat , Florence Forbes

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) with incremental training is crucial in industrial manufacturing, as unpredictable defects make obtaining sufficient labeled data infeasible. However, continual learning methods primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Jiaqi Liu , Kai Wu , Qiang Nie , Ying Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Yong Liu , Jinbao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng

Due to the scarcity and unpredictable nature of defect samples, industrial anomaly detection (IAD) predominantly employs unsupervised learning. However, all unsupervised IAD methods face a common challenge: the inherent bias in normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Xin Chen , Liujuan Cao , Shengchuan Zhang , Xiewu Zheng , Yan Zhang

In this paper, we introduce Masked Anomaly Detection (MAD), a general self-supervised learning task for multivariate time series anomaly detection. With the increasing availability of sensor data from industrial systems, being able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yiwei Fu , Feng Xue

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) learns one-class classifiers exclusively with normal (i.e., healthy) images to detect any abnormal (i.e., unhealthy) samples that do not conform to the expected normal patterns. UAD has two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Yu Tian , Guansong Pang , Fengbei Liu , Yuanhong chen , Seon Ho Shin , Johan W. Verjans , Rajvinder Singh , Gustavo Carneiro