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Synthetic dataset generation in Computer Vision, particularly for industrial applications, is still underexplored. Industrial defect segmentation, for instance, requires highly accurate labels, yet acquiring such data is costly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Emanuele Caruso , Alessandro Simoni , Francesco Pelosin

We propose a new machine-learning-based anomaly detection strategy for comparing data with a background-only reference (a form of weak supervision). The sensitivity of previous strategies degrades significantly when the signal is too rare…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-03 Chi Lung Cheng , Gup Singh , Benjamin Nachman

Recently, diffusion models have shown remarkable results in image synthesis by gradually removing noise and amplifying signals. Although the simple generative process surprisingly works well, is this the best way to generate image data? For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sangyun Lee , Hyungjin Chung , Jaehyeon Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Anomalies and outliers are common in real-world data, and they can arise from many sources, such as sensor faults. Accordingly, anomaly detection is important both for analyzing the anomalies themselves and for cleaning the data for further…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-13 Haitao Liu , Randy C. Paffenroth , Jian Zou , Chong Zhou

Most deep anomaly detection models are based on learning normality from datasets due to the difficulty of defining abnormality by its diverse and inconsistent nature. Therefore, it has been a common practice to learn normality under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Minkyung Kim , Jongmin Yu , Junsik Kim , Tae-Hyun Oh , Jun Kyun Choi

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) techniques aim to identify and localize anomalies without relying on annotations, only leveraging a model trained on a dataset known to be free of anomalies. Diffusion models learn to modify inputs $x$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Sergio Naval Marimont , Matthew Baugh , Vasilis Siomos , Christos Tzelepis , Bernhard Kainz , Giacomo Tarroni

The detection of anomalies in manufacturing processes is crucial to ensure product quality and identify process deviations. Statistical and data-driven approaches remain the standard in industrial anomaly detection, yet their adaptability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Bernd Hofmann , Albert Scheck , Joerg Franke , Patrick Bruendl

RGB-based surface anomaly detection methods have advanced significantly. However, certain surface anomalies remain practically invisible in RGB alone, necessitating the incorporation of 3D information. Existing approaches that employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Vitjan Zavrtanik , Matej Kristan , Danijel Skočaj

Existing representation-based methods usually conduct industrial anomaly detection in two stages: obtain feature representations with a pre-trained model and perform distance measures for anomaly detection. Among them, K-nearest neighbor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Shuai Lyu , Dongmei Mo , Waikeung Wong

Battery safety is critical in applications ranging from consumer electronics to electric vehicles and aircraft, where undetected anomalies could trigger safety hazards or costly downtime. In this study, we present OSBAD as an open-source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mei-Chin Pang , Suraj Adhikari , Takuma Kasahara , Nagihiro Haba , Saneyuki Ohno

This paper considers an anomaly detection problem in which a detection algorithm assigns anomaly scores to multi-dimensional data points, such as cellular networks' Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). We propose an optimization framework to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Ali Maatouk , Fadhel Ayed , Wenjie Li , Yu Wang , Hong Zhu , Jiantao Ye

How can we detect anomalies: that is, samples that significantly differ from a given set of high-dimensional data, such as images or sensor data? This is a practical problem with numerous applications and is also relevant to the goal of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Adam Goodge , Bryan Hooi , See Kiong Ng , Wee Siong Ng

Effective anomaly detection in time series is pivotal for modern industrial applications and financial systems. Due to the scarcity of anomaly labels and the high cost of manual labeling, reconstruction-based unsupervised approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tiejun Wang , Rui Wang , Xudong Mou , Mengyuan Ma , Tianyu Wo , Renyu Yang , Xudong Liu

Visual anomaly detection (AD) presents significant challenges due to the scarcity of anomalous data samples. While numerous works have been proposed to synthesize anomalous samples, these synthetic anomalies often lack authenticity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Han Sun , Yunkang Cao , Hao Dong , Olga Fink

Data sampling enhances classifier efficiency and robustness through data compression and quality improvement. Recently, the sampling method based on granular-ball (GB) has shown promising performance in generality and noisy classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Qin Xie , Qinghua Zhang , Shuyin Xia

Multi-camera systems provide richer contextual information for industrial anomaly detection. However, traditional methods process each view independently, disregarding the complementary information across viewpoints. Existing multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yifan Liu , Xun Xu , Shijie Li , Jingyi Liao , Xulei Yang

Anomaly Detection and Segmentation (AD&S) is crucial for industrial quality control. While existing methods excel in generating anomaly scores for each pixel, practical applications require producing a binary segmentation to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Alex Costanzino , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Mirko Del Moro , Agostino Aiezzo , Giuseppe Lisanti , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Image-based inspection systems have been widely deployed in manufacturing production lines. Due to the scarcity of defective samples, unsupervised anomaly detection that only leverages normal samples during training to detect various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Chengyu Tao , Hao Xu , Juan Du

Anomaly detection (AD) is a fundamental task in computer vision. It aims to identify incorrect image data patterns which deviate from the normal ones. Conventional methods generally address AD by preparing augmented negative samples to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Jianjian Qin , Chunzhi Gu , Jun Yu , Chao Zhang

Anomaly Detection (AD), as a critical problem, has been widely discussed. In this paper, we specialize in one specific problem, Visual Defect Detection (VDD), in many industrial applications. And in practice, defect image samples are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yapeng Teng , Haoyang Li , Fuzhen Cai , Ming Shao , Siyu Xia