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Supervised learning of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can require very large amounts of labeled data. Labeling thousands or millions of training examples can be extremely time consuming and costly. One direction towards addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Amir Ghaderi , Vassilis Athitsos

Modern sensors play a pivotal role in many operating platforms, as they manage to track the platform dynamics at a relatively low manufacturing costs. Their widespread use can be found starting from autonomous vehicles, through tactical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Daniel Engelsman , Itzik Klein

Detecting anomalies is one fundamental aspect of a safety-critical software system, however, it remains a long-standing problem. Numerous branches of works have been proposed to alleviate the complication and have demonstrated their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hyunsoo Cho , Jinseok Seol , Sang-goo Lee

Active learning approaches in computer vision generally involve querying strong labels for data. However, previous works have shown that weak supervision can be effective in training models for vision tasks while greatly reducing annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Sai Vikas Desai , Akshay L Chandra , Wei Guo , Seishi Ninomiya , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Visual defect detection is critical to ensure the quality of most products. However, the majority of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises still rely on tedious and error-prone human manual inspection. The main reasons include:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zijian Kuang , Xinran Tie , Lihang Ying , Shi Jin

Detection of anomalous events in videos is an important problem in applications such as surveillance. Video anomaly detection (VAD) is well-studied in the one-class classification (OCC) and weakly supervised (WS) settings. However, fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Anas Al-lahham , Nurbek Tastan , Zaigham Zaheer , Karthik Nandakumar

Pre-trained Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated notable progress in various zero-shot tasks, such as classification and retrieval. Despite their performance, because improving performance on new tasks requires task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jihwan Bang , Sumyeong Ahn , Jae-Gil Lee

Time series anomaly detection presents various challenges due to the sequential and dynamic nature of time-dependent data. Traditional unsupervised methods frequently encounter difficulties in generalization, often overfitting to known…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-30 Aitor Sánchez-Ferrera , Borja Calvo , Jose A. Lozano

Visual quality inspection in high performance manufacturing can benefit from automation, due to cost savings and improved rigor. Deep learning techniques are the current state of the art for generic computer vision tasks like classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Ahmad Mohamad Mezher , Andrew E. Marble

Learning an object detector or retrieval requires a large data set with manual annotations. Such data sets are expensive and time consuming to create and therefore difficult to obtain on a large scale. In this work, we propose to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Elad Amrani , Rami Ben-Ari , Tal Hakim , Alex Bronstein

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) aims to identify image- and pixel-level anomalies using only normal training data, with wide applications such as industrial inspection and medical analysis, where anomalies are scarce due to privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Zhe Zhang , Mingxiu Cai , Gaochang Wu , Jing Zhang , Lingqiao Liu , Dacheng Tao , Tianyou Chai , Xiatian Zhu

So-called unsupervised anomaly detection is better described as semi-supervised, as it assumes all training data are nominal. This assumption simplifies training but requires manual data curation, introducing bias and limiting adaptability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Muhammad Aqeel , Shakiba Sharifi , Marco Cristani , Francesco Setti

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

In this study, we propose a novel motif-based approach for unsupervised textile anomaly detection that combines the benefits of traditional convolutional neural networks with those of an unsupervised learning paradigm. It consists of five…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Imane Koulali , M. Taner Eskil

In recent years, the deterioration of artificial materials used in structures has become a serious social issue, increasing the importance of inspections. Non-destructive testing is gaining increased demand due to its capability to inspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yusaku Ando , Miya Nakajima , Takahiro Saitoh , Tsuyoshi Kato

Few-shot learning and self-supervised learning address different facets of the same problem: how to train a model with little or no labeled data. Few-shot learning aims for optimization methods and models that can learn efficiently to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Nikos Komodakis , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord

Unsupervised machine learning offers significant opportunities for extracting knowledge from unlabeled data sets and for achieving maximum machine learning performance. This paper demonstrates how to construct, use, and evaluate a high…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-13 Ryan Cohn , Elizabeth Holm

The use of deep features coming from pre-trained neural networks for unsupervised anomaly detection purposes has recently gathered momentum in the computer vision field. In particular, industrial inspection applications can take advantage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Pierre Gutierrez , Antoine Cordier , Thaïs Caldeira , Théophile Sautory

This paper introduces anomalib, a novel library for unsupervised anomaly detection and localization. With reproducibility and modularity in mind, this open-source library provides algorithms from the literature and a set of tools to design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Samet Akcay , Dick Ameln , Ashwin Vaidya , Barath Lakshmanan , Nilesh Ahuja , Utku Genc

In this paper, we introduce a unique variant of the denoising Auto-Encoder and combine it with the perceptual loss to classify images in an unsupervised manner. The proposed method, called Pseudo Labelling, consists of first applying a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Aymene Mohammed Bouayed , Karim Atif , Rachid Deriche , Abdelhakim Saim