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We address the problem of anomaly detection in videos. The goal is to identify unusual behaviours automatically by learning exclusively from normal videos. Most existing approaches are usually data-hungry and have limited generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yiwei Lu , Frank Yu , Mahesh Kumar Krishna Reddy , Yang Wang

With a growing number of robots being deployed across diverse applications, robust multimodal anomaly detection becomes increasingly important. In robotic manipulation, failures typically arise from (1) robot-driven anomalies due to an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Christoph Willibald , Daniel Sliwowski , Dongheui Lee

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs is pivotal for deploying safe vision systems in open-world environments. We revisit diffusion models, not as generators, but as universal perceptual templates for OOD detection. This research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Lemar Abdi , Amaan Valiuddin , Francisco Caetano , Christiaan Viviers , Fons van der Sommen

This research arises from the need to predict the amount of air pollutants in meteorological stations. Air pollution depends on the location of the stations (weather conditions and activities in the surroundings). Frequently, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Miriam Fdez-Díaz , José Ramón Quevedo , Elena Montañés

The deployment of zero-shot anomaly detection (AD) in embodied industrial inspection is severely bottlenecked by its reliance on passive, fixed-viewpoint 2D imagery. Such formulations inherently fail to accommodate the active, dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiaxuan Liu , Yunkang Cao , Yufeng Chen , Chunyang Li , Yuhuan Du , Hui Zhang

Machine learning offers potential solutions to current issues in industrial systems in areas such as quality control and predictive maintenance, but also faces unique barriers in industrial applications. An ongoing challenge is extreme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Lesley Wheat , Martin v. Mohrenschildt , Saeid Habibi

We propose a novel method for Zero-Shot Anomaly Localization on textures. The task refers to identifying abnormal regions in an otherwise homogeneous image. To obtain a high-fidelity localization, we leverage a bijective mapping derived…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Andrei-Timotei Ardelean , Tim Weyrich

Existing approaches towards anomaly detection~(AD) often rely on a substantial amount of anomaly-free data to train representation and density models. However, large anomaly-free datasets may not always be available before the inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jingyi Liao , Xun Xu , Manh Cuong Nguyen , Adam Goodge , Chuan Sheng Foo

With increased reliance on Internet based technologies, cyberattacks compromising users' sensitive data are becoming more prevalent. The scale and frequency of these attacks are escalating rapidly, affecting systems and devices connected to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Rahul Kale , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

A common problem with most zero and few-shot learning approaches is they suffer from bias towards seen classes resulting in sub-optimal performance. Existing efforts aim to utilize unlabeled images from unseen classes (i.e transductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Gaurav Bhatt , Shivam Chandhok , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Action recognition in surveillance video makes our life safer by detecting the criminal events or predicting violent emergencies. However, efficient action recognition is not free of difficulty. First, there are so many action classes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Kun Liu , Wu Liu , Huadong Ma , Wenbing Huang , Xiongxiong Dong

Zero-shot learning provides models for targets for which instances are not available, commonly called unobserved targets. The availability of target side information becomes crucial in this context in order to properly induce models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Miriam Fdez-Díaz , Elena Montañés , José Ramón Quevedo

Anomaly detection is a complex problem due to the ambiguity in defining anomalies, the diversity of anomaly types (e.g., local and global defect), and the scarcity of training data. As such, it necessitates a comprehensive model capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Byeongchan Lee , John Won , Seunghyun Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Anomaly detection aims at identifying data points that show systematic deviations from the majority of data in an unlabeled dataset. A common assumption is that clean training data (free of anomalies) is available, which is often violated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Chen Qiu , Aodong Li , Marius Kloft , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

Detecting anomalies within point clouds is crucial for various industrial applications, but traditional unsupervised methods face challenges due to data acquisition costs, early-stage production constraints, and limited generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Yuqi Cheng , Yunkang Cao , Guoyang Xie , Zhichao Lu , Weiming Shen

Detecting anomalies in surveillance footage is inherently challenging due to their unpredictable and context-dependent nature. This work introduces a novel context-aware zero-shot anomaly detection framework that identifies abnormal events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Md. Rashid Shahriar Khan , Md. Abrar Hasan , Mohammod Tareq Aziz Justice

Anomaly detection is a practical and challenging task due to the scarcity of anomaly samples in industrial inspection. Some existing anomaly detection methods address this issue by synthesizing anomalies with noise or external data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Guan Gui , Bin-Bin Gao , Jun Liu , Chengjie Wang , Yunsheng Wu

This technical report outlines our submission to the zero-shot track of the Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection (VAND) 2023 Challenge. Building on the performance of the WINCLIP framework, we aim to enhance the system's localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Matthew Baugh , James Batten , Johanna P. Müller , Bernhard Kainz

Anomaly detection, finding patterns that substantially deviate from those seen previously, is one of the fundamental problems of artificial intelligence. Recently, classification-based methods were shown to achieve superior results on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Liron Bergman , Yedid Hoshen

Automatic image anomaly detection is important for quality inspection in the manufacturing industry. The usual unsupervised anomaly detection approach is to train a model for each object class using a dataset of normal samples. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuanwei Li , Elizaveta Ivanova , Martins Bruveris