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Given high-dimensional time series data (e.g., sensor data), how can we detect anomalous events, such as system faults and attacks? More challengingly, how can we do this in a way that captures complex inter-sensor relationships, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ailin Deng , Bryan Hooi

In the research area of anomaly detection, novel and promising methods are frequently developed. However, most existing studies exclusively focus on the detection task only and ignore the interpretability of the underlying models as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Cheng Feng , Pingge Hu

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

Despite inherent ill-definition, anomaly detection is a research endeavor of great interest within machine learning and visual scene understanding alike. Most commonly, anomaly detection is considered as the detection of outliers within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Samet Akçay , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Unsupervised learning of anomaly detection in high-dimensional data, such as images, is a challenging problem recently subject to intense research. Through careful modelling of the data distribution of normal samples, it is possible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Amanda Berg , Jörgen Ahlberg , Michael Felsberg

Anomaly detection plays a vital role in industrial manufacturing. Due to the scarcity of real defect images, unsupervised approaches that rely solely on normal images have been extensively studied. Recently, diffusion-based generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Sungho Kang , Hyunkyu Park , Yeonho Lee , Hanbyul Lee , Mijoo Jeong , YeongHyeon Park , Injae Lee , Juneho Yi

Deep neural networks are often ignorant about what they do not know and overconfident when they make uninformed predictions. Some recent approaches quantify classification uncertainty directly by training the model to output high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Murat Sensoy , Lance Kaplan , Federico Cerutti , Maryam Saleki

Anomalies can be defined as any non-random structure which deviates from normality. Anomaly detection methods reported in the literature are numerous and diverse, as what is considered anomalous usually varies depending on particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Matías Tailanian , Pablo Musé , Álvaro Pardo

Unsupervised anomaly detection is a challenging problem due to the diversity of data distributions and the lack of labels. Ensemble methods are often adopted to mitigate these challenges by combining multiple detectors, which can reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jordan Levy , Paul Saves , Moncef Garouani , Nicolas Verstaevel , Benoit Gaudou

Anomaly detection without priors of the anomalies is challenging. In the field of unsupervised anomaly detection, traditional auto-encoder (AE) tends to fail based on the assumption that by training only on normal images, the model will not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Yajie Cui , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian

Deep autoencoder has been extensively used for anomaly detection. Training on the normal data, the autoencoder is expected to produce higher reconstruction error for the abnormal inputs than the normal ones, which is adopted as a criterion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Dong Gong , Lingqiao Liu , Vuong Le , Budhaditya Saha , Moussa Reda Mansour , Svetha Venkatesh , Anton van den Hengel

A popular method for anomaly detection is to use the generator of an adversarial network to formulate anomaly scores over reconstruction loss of input. Due to the rare occurrence of anomalies, optimizing such networks can be a cumbersome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Jin-ha Lee , Marcella Astrid , Seung-Ik Lee

The main difficulty in high-dimensional anomaly detection tasks is the lack of anomalous data for training. And simply collecting anomalous data from the real world, common distributions, or the boundary of normal data manifold may face the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Songmin Dai , Jide Li , Lu Wang , Congcong Zhu , Yifan Wu , Xiaoqiang Li

Deep generative models have emerged as promising tools for detecting arbitrary anomalies in data, dispensing with the necessity for manual labelling. Recently, autoregressive transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance for…

Anomaly detection on attributed networks aims at finding nodes whose patterns deviate significantly from the majority of reference nodes, which is pervasive in many applications such as network intrusion detection and social spammer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Haoyi Fan , Fengbin Zhang , Zuoyong Li

Many unsupervised visual anomaly detection methods train an auto-encoder to reconstruct normal samples and then leverage the reconstruction error map to detect and localize the anomalies. However, due to the powerful modeling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Qingqing Fang , Qinliang Su , Wenxi Lv , Wenchao Xu , Jianxing Yu

We introduce an anomaly detection method for multivariate time series data with the aim of identifying critical periods and features influencing extreme climate events like snowmelt in the Arctic. This method leverages the Variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Tolulope Ale , Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel , Vandana P. Janeja

In the digitization of energy systems, sensors and smart meters are increasingly being used to monitor production, operation and demand. Detection of anomalies based on smart meter data is crucial to identify potential risks and unusual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Wenjing Dai , Xiufeng Liu , Alfred Heller , Per Sieverts Nielsen

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

Anomaly detection is important in many real-life applications. Recently, self-supervised learning has greatly helped deep anomaly detection by recognizing several geometric transformations. However these methods lack finer features, usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Loic Jezequel , Ngoc-Son Vu , Jean Beaudet , Aymeric Histace