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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

Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) is tasked with pinpointing temporal intervals containing anomalous events within untrimmed videos, utilizing only video-level annotations. However, a significant challenge arises due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yu Wang , Shiwei Chen

Detecting rare and diverse anomalies in highly imbalanced datasets-such as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) in cybersecurity-remains a fundamental challenge for machine learning systems. Active learning offers a promising direction by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Sidahmed Benabderrahmane , Petko Valtchev , James Cheney , Talal Rahwan

The primary objective of Continual Anomaly Detection (CAD) is to learn the normal patterns of new tasks under dynamic data distribution assumptions while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Existing embedding-based CAD approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Gen Yang , Zhipeng Deng , Junfeng Man

Variational auto-encoders (VAEs) are a powerful approach to unsupervised learning. They enable scalable approximate posterior inference in latent-variable models using variational inference (VI). A VAE posits a variational family…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Samarth Sinha , Adji B. Dieng

In time series anomaly detection (TSAD), the scarcity of labeled data poses a challenge to the development of accurate models. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) offers a solution by leveraging labeled data from a related domain to detect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zahra Zamanzadeh Darban , Yiyuan Yang , Geoffrey I. Webb , Charu C. Aggarwal , Qingsong Wen , Shirui Pan , Mahsa Salehi

Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) is essential for maintaining the reliability and security of IoT-enabled service systems. Existing methods require training one specific model for each dataset, which exhibits limited generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 PengYu Chen , Shang Wan , Xiaohou Shi , Yuan Chang , Yan Sun , Sajal K. Das

This study proposes a theory of unsupervised super-resolution data assimilation (SRDA) using conditional variational autoencoders (CVAEs). We derive an evidence lower bound for unsupervised learning, showing that our theory is an extension…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Yuki Yasuda , Ryo Onishi

We present a refined version of the Anomaly Awareness framework for enhancing unsupervised anomaly detection. Our approach introduces minimal supervision into Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) through a two-stage training strategy: the model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-17 Adam Banda , Charanjit K. Khosa , Veronica Sanz

The surrogate loss of variational autoencoders (VAEs) poses various challenges to their training, inducing the imbalance between task fitting and representation inference. To avert this, the existing strategies for VAEs focus on adjusting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zhangkai Wu , Longbing Cao , Lei Qi

Detection of artificial objects from underwater imagery gathered by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is a key requirement for many subsea applications. Real-world AUV image datasets tend to be very large and unlabelled. Furthermore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Suraj Bijjahalli , Oscar Pizarro , Stefan B. Williams

Advancements in deep learning techniques have given a boost to the performance of anomaly detection. However, real-world and safety-critical applications demand a level of transparency and reasoning beyond accuracy. The task of anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Laya Rafiee Sevyeri , Ivaxi Sheth , Farhood Farahnak , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Shirin Abbasinejad Enger

Anomaly detection is a classical problem in computer vision, namely the determination of the normal from the abnormal when datasets are highly biased towards one class (normal) due to the insufficient sample size of the other class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Samet Akcay , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Unsupervised anomaly detection (AD) is critical for a wide range of practical applications, from network security to health and medical tools. Due to the diversity of problems, no single algorithm has been found to be superior for all AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Małgorzata Gutowska , Suzanne Little , Andrew McCarren

We propose a semi-supervised localization approach based on deep generative modeling with variational autoencoders (VAEs). Localization in reverberant environments remains a challenge, which machine learning (ML) has shown promise in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-15 Michael J. Bianco , Sharon Gannot , Peter Gerstoft

Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) is a critical task in computer vision with numerous real-world applications. However, deploying these models on edge devices presents significant challenges, such as constrained computational and memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Manuel Barusco , Lorenzo D'Antoni , Davide Dalle Pezze , Francesco Borsatti , Gian Antonio Susto

Anomaly detection on attributed networks attracts considerable research interests due to wide applications of attributed networks in modeling a wide range of complex systems. Recently, the deep learning-based anomaly detection methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Yixin Liu , Zhao Li , Shirui Pan , Chen Gong , Chuan Zhou , George Karypis

For a robot to perform complex manipulation tasks, it is necessary for it to have a good grasping ability. However, vision based robotic grasp detection is hindered by the unavailability of sufficient labelled data. Furthermore, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Mridul Mahajan , Tryambak Bhattacharjee , Arya Krishnan , Priya Shukla , G C Nandi

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) with incremental training is crucial in industrial manufacturing, as unpredictable defects make obtaining sufficient labeled data infeasible. However, continual learning methods primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Jiaqi Liu , Kai Wu , Qiang Nie , Ying Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Yong Liu , Jinbao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng

Current state-of-the-art anomaly detection (AD) methods exploit the powerful representations yielded by large-scale ImageNet training. However, catastrophic forgetting prevents the successful fine-tuning of pre-trained representations on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Oliver Rippel , Arnav Chavan , Chucai Lei , Dorit Merhof