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Despite the eye-catching breakthroughs achieved by deep visual networks in detecting region-level surface defects, the challenge of high-quality pixel-wise defect detection remains due to diverse defect appearances and data scarcity. To…

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Video anomaly detection (VAD) is an important computer vision problem. Thanks to the mode coverage capabilities of generative models, the likelihood-based paradigm is catching growing interest, as it can model normal distribution and detect…

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Visual change detection, aiming at segmentation of video frames into foreground and background regions, is one of the elementary tasks in computer vision and video analytics. The applications of change detection include anomaly detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Murari Mandal , Santosh Kumar Vipparthi

Fine-grained object detection in challenging visual domains, such as vehicle damage assessment, presents a formidable challenge even for human experts to resolve reliably. While DiffusionDet has advanced the state-of-the-art through…

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Visual anomaly inspection is critical in manufacturing, yet hampered by the scarcity of real anomaly samples for training robust detectors. Synthetic data generation presents a viable strategy for data augmentation; however, current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Linchun Wu , Qin Zou , Xianbiao Qi , Bo Du , Zhongyuan Wang , Qingquan Li

Training supervised deep neural networks that perform defect detection and segmentation requires large-scale fully-annotated datasets, which can be hard or even impossible to obtain in industrial environments. Generative AI offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Gabriele Valvano , Antonino Agostino , Giovanni De Magistris , Antonino Graziano , Giacomo Veneri

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

Industrial visual anomaly detection (VAD) methods are typically trained on normal samples only, yet performance improves substantially when even limited anomalous data is available. Existing anomaly generation approaches either require real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jinwei Hu , Francesco Borsatti , Arianna Stropeni , Davide Dalle Pezze , Manuel Barusco , Gian Antonio Susto

Defect inspection is paramount within the closed-loop manufacturing system. However, existing datasets for defect inspection often lack precision and semantic granularity required for practical applications. In this paper, we introduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Shuai Yang , Zhifei Chen , Pengguang Chen , Xi Fang , Yixun Liang , Shu Liu , Yingcong Chen

Existing industrial anomaly detection methods mainly determine whether an anomaly is present. However, real-world applications also require discovering and classifying multiple anomaly types. Since industrial anomalies are semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Botong Zhao , Qijun Shi , Shujing Lyu , Yue Lu

Surface defect detection is an extremely crucial step to ensure the quality of industrial products. Nowadays, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based on encoder-decoder architecture have achieved tremendous success in various defect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Junpu Wang , Guili Xu , Fuju Yan , Jinjin Wang , Zhengsheng Wang

Anomaly Detection (AD) is a critical task that involves identifying observations that do not conform to a learned model of normality. Prior work in deep AD is predominantly based on a familiarity hypothesis, where familiar features serve as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Sarath Sivaprasad , Mario Fritz

Defect detection is a critical research area in artificial intelligence. Recently, synthetic data-based self-supervised learning has shown great potential on this task. Although many sophisticated synthesizing strategies exist, little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yuxuan Cai , Dingkang Liang , Dongliang Luo , Xinwei He , Xin Yang , Xiang Bai

In industrial vision, the anomaly detection problem can be addressed with an autoencoder trained to map an arbitrary image, i.e. with or without any defect, to a clean image, i.e. without any defect. In this approach, anomaly detection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Anne-Sophie Collin , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

This work is addressing the problem of defect anomaly detection based on a clean reference image. Specifically, we focus on SEM semiconductor defects in addition to several natural image anomalies. There are well-known methods to create a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Nati Ofir , Yotam Ben Shoshan , Ran Badanes , Boris Sherman

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

As deep learning models are widely used in software systems, test generation plays a crucial role in assessing the quality of such models before deployment. To date, the most advanced test generators rely on generative AI to synthesize…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xingcheng Chen , Oliver Weissl , Andrea Stocco

Traditional reconstruction-based methods have struggled to achieve competitive performance in anomaly detection. In this paper, we introduce Denoising Diffusion Anomaly Detection (DDAD), a novel denoising process for image reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Arian Mousakhan , Thomas Brox , Jawad Tayyub

Abnormal event detection in video is a complex computer vision problem that has attracted significant attention in recent years. The complexity of the task arises from the commonly-adopted definition of an abnormal event, that is, a rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Marius Popescu , Mubarak Shah

Large pretrained vision foundation models have shown significant potential in various vision tasks. However, for industrial anomaly detection, the scarcity of real defect samples poses a critical challenge in leveraging these models. While…

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