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It is hard to collect enough flaw images for training deep learning network in industrial production. Therefore, existing industrial anomaly detection methods prefer to use CNN-based unsupervised detection and localization network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jianfeng Huang , Chenyang Li , Yimin Lin , Shiguo Lian

Conventional unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) methods build separate models for each object category. Recent studies have proposed to train a unified model for multiple classes, namely model-unified UAD. However, such methods still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Jia Guo , Haonan Han , Shuai Lu , Weihang Zhang , Huiqi Li

Anomaly Detection (AD), as a critical problem, has been widely discussed. In this paper, we specialize in one specific problem, Visual Defect Detection (VDD), in many industrial applications. And in practice, defect image samples are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yapeng Teng , Haoyang Li , Fuzhen Cai , Ming Shao , Siyu Xia

Deep unsupervised representation learning has recently led to new approaches in the field of Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) in brain MRI. The main principle behind these works is to learn a model of normal anatomy by learning to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Christoph Baur , Stefan Denner , Benedikt Wiestler , Shadi Albarqouni , Nassir Navab

Unified anomaly detection (AD) is one of the most challenges for anomaly detection, where one unified model is trained with normal samples from multiple classes with the objective to detect anomalies in these classes. For such a challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Xincheng Yao , Ruoqi Li , Zefeng Qian , Lu Wang , Chongyang Zhang

Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoders (VQ-VAE)[1] provide an unsupervised model for learning discrete representations by combining vector quantization and autoencoders. In this paper, we study the use of VQ-VAE for representation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-05 Hanwei Wu , Markus Flierl

Reconstruction-based anomaly detection models achieve their purpose by suppressing the generalization ability for anomaly. However, diverse normal patterns are consequently not well reconstructed as well. Although some efforts have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Wenrui Liu , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Anomaly detection is an important task for complex systems (e.g., industrial facilities, manufacturing, large-scale science experiments), where failures in a sub-system can lead to low yield, faulty products, or even damage to components.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ryan Humble , Zhe Zhang , Finn O'Shea , Eric Darve , Daniel Ratner

In this work, we present a novel approach to transform supervised classifiers into effective unsupervised anomaly detectors. The method we have developed, termed Discriminatory Detection of Distortions (DDD), enhances anomaly detection by…

Vector-quantized variational autoencoders (VQ-VAEs) are central to models that rely on high reconstruction fidelity, from neural compression to generative pipelines. Hierarchical extensions, such as VQ-VAE2, are often credited with superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shirin Reyhanian , Laurenz Wiskott

Quantum-inspired tensor networks algorithms have shown to be effective and efficient models for machine learning tasks, including anomaly detection. Here, we propose a highly parallelizable quantum-inspired approach which we call SMT-AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Apimuk Sornsaeng , Si Min Chan , Wenxuan Zhang , Swee Liang Wong , Joshua Lim , Dario Poletti

Anomaly detection is a crucial task in various domains. Most of the existing methods assume the normal sample data clusters around a single central prototype while the real data may consist of multiple categories or subgroups. In addition,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-03 Zhijin Dong , Hongzhi Liu , Boyuan Ren , Weimin Xiong , Zhonghai Wu

This paper introduces the first fully unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) framework for unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD). The performance of UAD techniques degrades significantly in the presence of a domain shift, difficult to avoid in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Nesryne Mejri , Enjie Ghorbel , Anis Kacem , Pavel Chernakov , Niki Foteinopoulou , Djamila Aouada

Hyperspectral anomaly detection (HAD), a crucial approach for many civilian and military applications, seeks to identify pixels with spectral signatures that are anomalous relative to a preponderance of background signatures. Significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Abu Hasnat Mohammad Rubaiyat , Jordan Vincent , Colin Olson

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

We propose a multi-layer variational autoencoder method, we call HR-VQVAE, that learns hierarchical discrete representations of the data. By utilizing a novel objective function, each layer in HR-VQVAE learns a discrete representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Mohammad Adiban , Kalin Stefanov , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi , Giampiero Salvi

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) in deep learning regression is of wide interest, as it supports critical applications including sequential decision making and risk-sensitive tasks. In heteroskedastic regression, where the uncertainty of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Mikkel Jordahn , Jonas Vestergaard Jensen , James Harrison , Michael Riis Andersen , Mikkel N. Schmidt

Shortcut learning, i.e., a model's reliance on undesired features not directly relevant to the task, is a major challenge that severely limits the applications of machine learning algorithms, particularly when deploying them to assist in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Lukas Kuhn , Sari Sadiya , Jorg Schlotterer , Florian Buettner , Christin Seifert , Gemma Roig

The present phase of Machine Learning is characterized by supervised learning algorithms relying on large sets of labeled examples ($n \to \infty$). The next phase is likely to focus on algorithms capable of learning from very few labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-12 Fabio Anselmi , Joel Z. Leibo , Lorenzo Rosasco , Jim Mutch , Andrea Tacchetti , Tomaso Poggio

The application of supervised models to clinical screening tasks is challenging due to the need for annotated data for each considered pathology. Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) is an alternative approach that aims to identify any…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Robin Mieling , Lennart Maack , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer