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We introduce a powerful student-teacher framework for the challenging problem of unsupervised anomaly detection and pixel-precise anomaly segmentation in high-resolution images. Student networks are trained to regress the output of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Paul Bergmann , Michael Fauser , David Sattlegger , Carsten Steger

Anomaly detection (AD) is a critical task across domains such as cybersecurity and healthcare. In the unsupervised setting, an effective and theoretically-grounded principle is to train classifiers to distinguish normal data from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-18 Matthew Lau , Tian-Yi Zhou , Xiangchi Yuan , Jizhou Chen , Wenke Lee , Xiaoming Huo

Anomaly detection is being regarded as an unsupervised learning task as anomalies stem from adversarial or unlikely events with unknown distributions. However, the predictive performance of purely unsupervised anomaly detection often fails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Nico Goernitz , Marius Micha Kloft , Konrad Rieck , Ulf Brefeld

In this paper, we consider the problem of conditional anomaly detection that aims to identify data instances with an unusual response or a class label. We develop a new non-parametric approach for conditional anomaly detection based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Michal Valko , Branislav Kveton , Hamed Valizadegan , Gregory F. Cooper , Milos Hauskrecht

Image classification systems recently made a giant leap with the advancement of deep neural networks. However, these systems require an excessive amount of labeled data to be adequately trained. Gathering a correctly annotated dataset is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Görkem Algan , Ilkay Ulusoy

The detection and the quantification of anomalies in image data are critical tasks in industrial scenes such as detecting micro scratches on product. In recent years, due to the difficulty of defining anomalies and the limit of correcting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Masanari Kimura , Takashi Yanagihara

Given a long list of anomaly detection algorithms developed in the last few decades, how do they perform with regard to (i) varying levels of supervision, (ii) different types of anomalies, and (iii) noisy and corrupted data? In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Songqiao Han , Xiyang Hu , Hailiang Huang , Mingqi Jiang , Yue Zhao

Although deep learning has been applied to successfully address many data mining problems, relatively limited work has been done on deep learning for anomaly detection. Existing deep anomaly detection methods, which focus on learning new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Guansong Pang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

With a focus on abnormal events contained within untrimmed videos, there is increasing interest among researchers in video anomaly detection. Among different video anomaly detection scenarios, weakly-supervised video anomaly detection poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Yidan Fan , Yongxin Yu , Wenhuan Lu , Yahong Han

The detection of lesions in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-scans of human brains remains challenging, time-consuming and error-prone. Recently, unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) methods have shown promising results for this task. These…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-13 Finn Behrendt , Marcel Bengs , Frederik Rogge , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

Semantic noise in image classification datasets, where visually similar categories are frequently mislabeled, poses a significant challenge to conventional supervised learning approaches. In this paper, we explore the potential of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yingxuan Li , Jiafeng Mao , Yusuke Matsui

Despite the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification tasks, the human-level performance relies on massive training data with high-quality manual annotations, which are expensive and time-consuming to collect. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan Kankanhalli

Recent studies on visual anomaly detection (AD) of industrial objects/textures have achieved quite good performance. They consider an unsupervised setting, specifically the one-class setting, in which we assume the availability of a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Jie Zhang , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

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

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

Noisy labels, inevitably existing in pseudo segmentation labels generated from weak object-level annotations, severely hampers model optimization for semantic segmentation. Previous works often rely on massive hand-crafted losses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Shenwang Jiang , Jianan Li , Ying Wang , Wenxuan Wu , Jizhou Zhang , Bo Huang , Tingfa Xu

We aim at constructing a high performance model for defect detection that detects unknown anomalous patterns of an image without anomalous data. To this end, we propose a two-stage framework for building anomaly detectors using normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Chun-Liang Li , Kihyuk Sohn , Jinsung Yoon , Tomas Pfister

Label noise is a common problem in real-world datasets, affecting both model training and validation. Clean data are essential for achieving strong performance and ensuring reliable evaluation. While various techniques have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Henrique Pickler , Jorge K. S. Kamassury , Danilo Silva

Supervised learning of deep neural networks heavily relies on large-scale datasets annotated by high-quality labels. In contrast, mislabeled samples can significantly degrade the generalization of models and result in memorizing samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Tsung-Ming Tai , Yun-Jie Jhang , Wen-Jyi Hwang

Visual anomaly detection targets to detect images that notably differ from normal pattern, and it has found extensive application in identifying defective parts within the manufacturing industry. These anomaly detection paradigms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Anindya Sundar Das , Guansong Pang , Monowar Bhuyan