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Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for the reliable deployment of machine learning models in real-world scenarios, enabling the identification of unknown samples or objects. A prominent approach to enhance OOD detection…

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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…

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Detecting out of distribution (OOD) samples is of paramount importance in all Machine Learning applications. Deep generative modeling has emerged as a dominant paradigm to model complex data distributions without labels. However, prior work…

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Matching information across image and text modalities is a fundamental challenge for many applications that involve both vision and natural language processing. The objective is to find efficient similarity metrics to compare the similarity…

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Due to the data imbalance and the diversity of defects, student-teacher networks (S-T) are favored in unsupervised anomaly detection, which explores the discrepancy in feature representation derived from the knowledge distillation process…

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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 vision language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated impressive anomaly detection performance under significant distribution shift by utilizing high-level semantic information through text prompts. However, these models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Nadeem Nazer , Hongkuan Zhou , Lavdim Halilaj , Ylli Sadikaj , Steffen Staab

Deep anomaly detection (AD) aims to provide robust and efficient classifiers for one-class and unbalanced settings. However current AD models still struggle on edge-case normal samples and are often unable to keep high performance over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Loic Jezequel , Ngoc-Son Vu , Jean Beaudet , Aymeric Histace

Aiming to generalize the label knowledge from a source domain with continuous outputs to an unlabeled target domain, Domain Adaptation Regression (DAR) is developed for complex practical learning problems. However, due to the continuity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Hao-Ran Yang , Chuan-Xian Ren , You-Wei Luo

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data is a critical challenge in machine learning due to model overconfidence, often without awareness of their epistemological limits. We hypothesize that ``neural collapse'', a phenomenon affecting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-28 Mouïn Ben Ammar , Nacim Belkhir , Sebastian Popescu , Antoine Manzanera , Gianni Franchi

Industrial defect detection systems face critical limitations when confined to one-class anomaly detection paradigms, which assume uniform outlier distributions and struggle with data scarcity in real-world manufacturing environments. We…

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Analyzing the distribution shift of data is a growing research direction in nowadays Machine Learning (ML), leading to emerging new benchmarks that focus on providing a suitable scenario for studying the generalization properties of ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Marius Dragoi , Elena Burceanu , Emanuela Haller , Andrei Manolache , Florin Brad

One of the early weaknesses identified in deep neural networks trained for image classification tasks was their inability to provide low confidence predictions on out-of-distribution (OOD) data that was significantly different from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Evelyn Mannix , Howard Bondell

Diffusion models have shown superior performance on unsupervised anomaly detection tasks. Since trained with normal data only, diffusion models tend to reconstruct normal counterparts of test images with certain noises added. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Hang Yao , Ming Liu , Haolin Wang , Zhicun Yin , Zifei Yan , Xiaopeng Hong , Wangmeng Zuo

Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision area with many real-world applications. Given a wide range of images belonging to the normal class, emerging from some distribution, the objective of this task is to construct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chengwei Chen , Pan Chen , Haichuan Song , Yiqing Tao , Yuan Xie , Shouhong Ding , Lizhuang Ma

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs is critical for safely deploying deep learning models in the real world. Existing approaches for detecting OOD examples work well when evaluated on benign in-distribution and OOD samples. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Jiefeng Chen , Yixuan Li , Xi Wu , Yingyu Liang , Somesh Jha

Pre-trained vision foundation models have transformed many computer vision tasks. Despite their strong ability to learn discriminative and generalizable features crucial for out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, their impact on this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shizhen Zhao , Jiahui Liu , Xin Wen , Haoru Tan , Xiaojuan Qi

This paper explores the problem of class-agnostic anomaly detection (AD), where the objective is to train one class-agnostic AD model that can generalize to detect anomalies in diverse new classes from different domains without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xincheng Yao , Chao Shi , Muming Zhao , Guangtao Zhai , Chongyang Zhang

How to improve discriminative feature learning is central in classification. Existing works address this problem by explicitly increasing inter-class separability and intra-class similarity, whether by constructing positive and negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Qingsong Zhao , Yi Wang , Shuguang Dou , Chen Gong , Yin Wang , Cairong Zhao

Blind super-resolution methods based on stable diffusion showcase formidable generative capabilities in reconstructing clear high-resolution images with intricate details from low-resolution inputs. However, their practical applicability is…

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