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Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) underpins real-time monitoring in cloud services and web systems, allowing rapid identification of anomalies to prevent costly failures. Most TSAD methods driven by forecasting models tend to overfit by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Quan Zhou , Changhua Pei , Fei Sun , Jing Han , Zhengwei Gao , Dan Pei , Haiming Zhang , Gaogang Xie , Jianhui Li

Time series Anomaly Detection (AD) plays a crucial role for web systems. Various web systems rely on time series data to monitor and identify anomalies in real time, as well as to initiate diagnosis and remediation procedures. Variational…

Robust Anomaly Detection (AD) on time series data is a key component for monitoring many complex modern systems. These systems typically generate high-dimensional time series that can be highly noisy, seasonal, and inter-correlated. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Farzaneh Khoshnevisan , Zhewen Fan , Vitor R. Carvalho

We introduce Neural Contextual Anomaly Detection (NCAD), a framework for anomaly detection on time series that scales seamlessly from the unsupervised to supervised setting, and is applicable to both univariate and multivariate time series.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Chris U. Carmona , François-Xavier Aubet , Valentin Flunkert , Jan Gasthaus

Several techniques for multivariate time series anomaly detection have been proposed recently, but a systematic comparison on a common set of datasets and metrics is lacking. This paper presents a systematic and comprehensive evaluation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Astha Garg , Wenyu Zhang , Jules Samaran , Savitha Ramasamy , Chuan-Sheng Foo

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) seeks to localize the anomaly mask of an input image with respect to normal samples. Either by reconstructing normal counterparts (reconstruction-based) or by learning an image feature embedding space…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Zhe Zhang , Mingxiu Cai , Hanxiao Wang , Gaochang Wu , Tianyou Chai , Xiatian Zhu

In practice, machine learning methods commonly require anomaly detection (AD) to filter inputs or detect distributional shifts. Typically, this is implemented by running a separate AD model alongside the primary model. However, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Luca Hinkamp , Simon Klüttermann , Emmanuel Müller

Anomaly detection is fundamental for ensuring quality control and operational efficiency in industrial environments, yet conventional approaches face significant challenges when training data contains mislabeled samples-a common occurrence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Muhammad Aqeel , Shakiba Sharifi , Marco Cristani , Francesco Setti

Time series anomaly detection has achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, evaluation practices have received comparatively less attention, despite their critical importance. Existing metrics exhibit several limitations: (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuewei Li , Dalin Zhang , Huan Li , Xinyi Gong , Hongjun Chu , Zhaohui Song

Underwater video monitoring is a promising strategy for assessing marine biodiversity, but the vast volume of uneventful footage makes manual inspection highly impractical. In this work, we explore the use of visual anomaly detection (VAD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Laura Weihl , Stefan H. Bengtson , Nejc Novak , Malte Pedersen

Time series are ubiquitous and occur naturally in a variety of applications -- from data recorded by sensors in manufacturing processes, over financial data streams to climate data. Different tasks arise, such as regression, classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sebastian Wette , Florian Heinrichs

Anomaly detection (AD) is essential for automating visual inspection in manufacturing. This field of computer vision is rapidly evolving, with increasing attention towards real-world applications. Meanwhile, popular datasets are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Aimira Baitieva , Yacine Bouaouni , Alexandre Briot , Dick Ameln , Souhaiel Khalfaoui , Samet Akcay

The field of time series anomaly detection is constantly advancing, with several methods available, making it a challenge to determine the most appropriate method for a specific domain. The evaluation of these methods is facilitated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Sondre Sørbø , Massimiliano Ruocco

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to discover behaviors or events deviating from the normality in videos. As a long-standing task in the field of computer vision, VAD has witnessed much good progress. In the era of deep learning, with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Peng Wu , Chengyu Pan , Yuting Yan , Guansong Pang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

Cybersecurity attacks in Cloud data centres are increasing alongside the growth of the Cloud services market. Existing research proposes a number of anomaly detection systems for detecting such attacks. However, these systems encounter a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Sakil Barbhuiya , Zafeirios Papazachos , Peter Kilpatrick , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

This paper investigates the performance of diffusion models for video anomaly detection (VAD) within the most challenging but also the most operational scenario in which the data annotations are not used. As being sparse, diverse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Anil Osman Tur , Nicola Dall'Asen , Cigdem Beyan , Elisa Ricci

The rapid expansion of data from diverse sources has made anomaly detection (AD) increasingly essential for identifying unexpected observations that may signal system failures, security breaches, or fraud. As datasets become more complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Haoqi Huang , Ping Wang , Jianhua Pei , Jiacheng Wang , Shahen Alexanian , Dusit Niyato

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

Current state-of-the-art multi-class unsupervised anomaly detection (MUAD) methods rely on training encoder-decoder models to reconstruct anomaly-free features. We first show these approaches have an inherent fidelity-stability dilemma in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xingwu Zhang , Guanxuan Li , Paul Henderson , Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa , Zijun Long

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