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Time series anomaly detection is important in modern large-scale systems and is applied in a variety of domains to analyze and monitor the operation of diverse systems. Unsupervised approaches have received widespread interest, as they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Buang Zhang , Tung Kieu , Xiangfei Qiu , Chenjuan Guo , Jilin Hu , Aoying Zhou , Christian S. Jensen , Bin Yang

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

In the field of multi-class anomaly detection, reconstruction-based methods derived from single-class anomaly detection face the well-known challenge of "learning shortcuts", wherein the model fails to learn the patterns of normal samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Liren He , Zhengkai Jiang , Jinlong Peng , Liang Liu , Qiangang Du , Xiaobin Hu , Wenbing Zhu , Mingmin Chi , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang

Data augmentation methods are commonly integrated into the training of anomaly detection models. Previous approaches have primarily focused on replicating real-world anomalies or enhancing diversity, without considering that the standard of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiang Lin , Yaping Yan

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

Unsupervised anomaly detection aims to build models to effectively detect unseen anomalies by only training on the normal data. Although previous reconstruction-based methods have made fruitful progress, their generalization ability is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yuxin Zhang , Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Han Yu , Tao Qin

Anomaly detection in videos is a significant yet challenging problem. Previous approaches based on deep neural networks employ either reconstruction-based or prediction-based approaches. Nevertheless, existing reconstruction-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yizhou Wang , Can Qin , Yue Bai , Yi Xu , Xu Ma , Yun Fu

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) has been widely implemented in industrial and medical applications, which reduces the cost of manual annotation and improves efficiency in disease diagnosis. Recently, deep auto-encoder with its variants…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Mingqing Wang , Jiawei Li , Zhenyang Li , Chengxiao Luo , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhi Wang

In recent years, scene text recognition is always regarded as a sequence-to-sequence problem. Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and Attentional sequence recognition (Attn) are two very prevailing approaches to tackle this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Qi Song , Qianyi Jiang , Nan Li , Rui Zhang , Xiaolin Wei

Anomaly detection in multivariate time series (MTS) is hindered by dynamic inter-variable dependencies and feature entanglement under spectral noise, and in practice, is further complicated by the absence of anomaly labels. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yunhua Pei , Zixing Song , Jin Zheng , John Cartlidge

Responding to the challenge of detecting unusual radar targets in a well identified environment, innovative anomaly and novelty detection methods keep emerging in the literature. This work aims at presenting a benchmark gathering common and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Martin Bauw , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo , Claude Adnet , Olivier Airiau

Action recognition and anticipation are key to the success of many computer vision applications. Existing methods can roughly be grouped into those that extract global, context-aware representations of the entire image or sequence, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Mohammad Sadegh Aliakbarian , Fatemehsadat Saleh , Basura Fernando , Mathieu Salzmann , Lars Petersson , Lars Andersson

Anomaly detection and localization without any manual annotations and prior knowledge is a challenging task under the setting of unsupervised learning. The existing works achieve excellent performance in the anomaly detection, but with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Honghui Chen , Pingping Chen , Huan Mao , Mengxi Jiang

Leveraging deep learning models for Anomaly Detection (AD) has seen widespread use in recent years due to superior performances over traditional methods. Recent deep methods for anomalies in images learn better features of normality in an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Andrei Manolache , Florin Brad , Elena Burceanu

The surge in real-time data collection across various industries has underscored the need for advanced anomaly detection in both univariate and multivariate time series data. This paper introduces TransNAS-TSAD, a framework that synergizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ijaz Ul Haq , Byung Suk Lee , Donna M. Rizzo

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) aims to detect anomalies without labeled data, a necessity in many machine learning applications where anomalous samples are rare or not available. Most state-of-the-art methods fall into two categories:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Nicolas Pinon , Carole Lartizien

Unsupervised anomaly detection is vital in industrial fields, with reconstruction-based methods favored for their simplicity and effectiveness. However, reconstruction methods often encounter an identical shortcut issue, where both normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Wei Luo , Haiming Yao , Zhenfeng Qiang , Xiaotian Zhang , Weihang Zhang

A method for unsupervised contextual anomaly detection is proposed using a cross-linked pair of Variational Auto-Encoders for assigning a normality score to an observation. The method enables a distinct separation of contextual from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-02 Yaniv Shulman

Detecting abnormal nodes from attributed networks is of great importance in many real applications, such as financial fraud detection and cyber security. This task is challenging due to both the complex interactions between the anomalous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Jiaqiang Zhang , Senzhang Wang , Songcan Chen

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been regarded as a capable class of models for visual recognition problems. Nevertheless, it is not trivial to develop generic and powerful network architectures, which requires significant efforts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Zhaofan Qiu , Ting Yao , Yiheng Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Tao Mei