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Recent studies highlighted a practical setting of unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) that builds a unified model for multi-class images. Despite various advancements addressing this challenging task, the detection performance under the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Jia Guo , Shuai Lu , Weihang Zhang , Fang Chen , Huiqi Li , Hongen Liao

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as a powerful class of generative AI models, showing remarkable potential in anomaly detection (AD) tasks across various domains, such as cybersecurity, fraud detection, healthcare, and manufacturing. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jing Liu , Zhenchao Ma , Zepu Wang , Chenxuanyin Zou , Jiayang Ren , Zehua Wang , Liang Song , Bo Hu , Yang Liu , Victor C. M. Leung

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

Few-shot anomaly detection streamlines and simplifies industrial safety inspection. However, limited samples make accurate differentiation between normal and abnormal features challenging, and even more so under category-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Guangyao Zhai , Yue Zhou , Xinyan Deng , Lars Heckler , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

Industrial surface defect detection often suffers from limited defect samples, severe long-tailed distributions, and difficulties in accurately localizing subtle defects under complex backgrounds. To address these challenges, this paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Shuo Feng , Runlin Zhou , Yuyang Li , Guangcan Liu

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying atypical data samples that significantly deviate from the majority of the dataset. In the realm of clinical screening and diagnosis, detecting abnormalities in medical images holds great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Xianyao Hu , Congming Jin

Anomaly detection (AD) is a crucial machine learning task that aims to learn patterns from a set of normal training samples to identify abnormal samples in test data. Most existing AD studies assume that the training and test data are drawn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tri Cao , Jiawen Zhu , Guansong Pang

Despite the remarkable success, recent reconstruction-based anomaly detection (AD) methods via diffusion modeling still involve fine-grained noise-strength tuning and computationally expensive multi-step denoising, leading to a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Shunsuke Sakai , Xiangteng He , Chunzhi Gu , Leonid Sigal , Tatsuhito Hasegawa

Recent advances in diffusion models have spurred research into their application for Reconstruction-based unsupervised anomaly detection. However, these methods may struggle with maintaining structural integrity and recovering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Farzad Beizaee , Gregory A. Lodygensky , Christian Desrosiers , Jose Dolz

In the context of flexible manufacturing systems that are required to produce different types and quantities of products with minimal reconfiguration, this paper addresses the problem of unsupervised multi-class anomaly detection: develop a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Haonan Yin , Guanlong Jiao , Qianhui Wu , Borje F. Karlsson , Biqing Huang , Chin Yew Lin

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

Diffusion models are rapidly redefining 3D anomaly detection in point cloud data. As 3D sensing becomes integral to modern manufacturing, reliable anomaly detection is essential for high-throughput quality assurance and process control. Yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Pranav A , Shashank B , Pranav Siddappa , Dominik Seuss , Minal Moharir , Subramanya KN

Known for their impressive performance in generative modeling, diffusion models are attractive candidates for density-based anomaly detection. This paper investigates different variations of diffusion modeling for unsupervised and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Victor Livernoche , Vineet Jain , Yashar Hezaveh , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Recently, multi-class anomaly classification has garnered increasing attention. Previous methods directly cluster anomalies but often struggle due to the lack of anomaly-prior knowledge. Acquiring this knowledge faces two issues: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ziming Huang , Xurui Li , Haotian Liu , Feng Xue , Yuzhe Wang , Yu Zhou

Reconstruction-based methods have been commonly used for unsupervised anomaly detection, in which a normal image is reconstructed and compared with the given test image to detect and locate anomalies. Recently, diffusion models have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Di Wu , Shicai Fan , Xue Zhou , Li Yu , Yuzhong Deng , Jianxiao Zou , Baihong Lin

This paper explores the utility of diffusion-based models for anomaly detection, focusing on their efficacy in identifying deviations in both compact and high-resolution datasets. Diffusion-based architectures, including Denoising Diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Aryan Bhosale , Samrat Mukherjee , Biplab Banerjee , Fabio Cuzzolin

Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have shown incredible performance on text-to-image generation. Since text-to-image generation often requires models to generate visual concepts with fine-grained details and attributes specified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xuehai He , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Varun Jampani , Arjun Akula , Pradyumna Narayana , Sugato Basu , William Yang Wang , Xin Eric Wang

3D anomaly detection plays a crucial role in monitoring parts for localized inherent defects in precision manufacturing. Embedding-based and reconstruction-based approaches are among the most popular and successful methods. However, there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zheyuan Zhou , Le Wang , Naiyu Fang , Zili Wang , Lemiao Qiu , Shuyou Zhang

Generative models have demonstrated significant success in anomaly detection and segmentation over the past decade. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as a powerful alternative, outperforming previous approaches such as GANs and VAEs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Mehrdad Moradi , Marco Grasso , Bianca Maria Colosimo , Kamran Paynabar

Multi-class anomaly detection aims to build unified models across diverse product categories. However, as the number of categories grows, its performance often degrades due to increasingly complex and heterogeneous normal distributions. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yaoxuan Feng , Yuxin Li , Weijiang Lv , Zixuan Zhao , Yubiao Wang , Wenchao Chen , Bo Chen , Hongwei Liu