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Automatic vision inspection holds significant importance in industry inspection. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) exhibit strong language understanding capabilities and hold promise for this task, their performance remains…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Kai Zhang , Zekai Zhang , Xihe Sun , Anpeng Wang , Jingmeng Nie , Qinghui Chen , Han Hao , Jianyuan Guo , Jinglin Zhang

Visual defect assessment is a form of anomaly detection. This is very relevant in finding faults such as cracks and markings in various surface inspection tasks like pavement and automotive parts. The task involves detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Manpreet Singh Minhas , John Zelek

Semi-supervised video anomaly detection (VAD) methods formulate the task of anomaly detection as detection of deviations from the learned normal patterns. Previous works in the field (reconstruction or prediction-based methods) suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Mohammad Baradaran , Robert Bergevin

Defect detection in the manufacturing industry is of utmost importance for product quality inspection. Recently, optical defect detection has been investigated as an anomaly detection using different deep learning methods. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ammar Mansoor Kamoona , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Reza Hoseinnezhad

In the advancement of industrial informatization, unsupervised anomaly detection technology effectively overcomes the scarcity of abnormal samples and significantly enhances the automation and reliability of smart manufacturing. As an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yuxuan Lin , Yang Chang , Xuan Tong , Jiawen Yu , Antonio Liotta , Guofan Huang , Wei Song , Deyu Zeng , Zongze Wu , Yan Wang , Wenqiang Zhang

Anomaly detection plays a pivotal role in manufacturing quality control, yet its application is constrained by limited abnormal samples and high manual annotation costs. While anomaly synthesis offers a promising solution, existing studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qunyi Zhang , Songan Zhang , Jiaqi Liu , Jinbao Wang , Xiaoning Lei , Guoyang Xie , Guannan Jiang , Zhichao Lu

The current state of machine learning scholarship in Timeseries Anomaly Detection (TAD) is plagued by the persistent use of flawed evaluation metrics, inconsistent benchmarking practices, and a lack of proper justification for the choices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 M. Saquib Sarfraz , Mei-Yen Chen , Lukas Layer , Kunyu Peng , Marios Koulakis

Object anomaly detection is essential for industrial quality inspection, yet traditional single-sensor methods face critical limitations. They fail to capture the wide range of anomaly types, as single sensors are often constrained to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Wenqiao Li , Bozhong Zheng , Xiaohao Xu , Jinye Gan , Fading Lu , Xiang Li , Na Ni , Zheng Tian , Xiaonan Huang , Shenghua Gao , Yingna Wu

Unsupervised visual anomaly detection from multi-view images presents a significant challenge: distinguishing genuine defects from benign appearance variations caused by viewpoint changes. Existing methods, often designed for single-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xintao Chen , Xiaohao Xu , Bozhong Zheng , Yun Liu , Yingna Wu

Visual similarities discovery (VSD) is an important task with broad e-commerce applications. Given an image of a certain object, the goal of VSD is to retrieve images of different objects with high perceptual visual similarity. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Oren Barkan , Tal Reiss , Jonathan Weill , Ori Katz , Roy Hirsch , Itzik Malkiel , Noam Koenigstein

Robustness against noisy imaging is crucial for practical image anomaly detection systems. This study introduces a Robust Anomaly Detection (RAD) dataset with free views, uneven illuminations, and blurry collections to systematically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuqi Cheng , Yunkang Cao , Rui Chen , Weiming Shen

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is an open-set recognition task, which is usually formulated as a one-class classification (OCC) problem, where training data is comprised of videos with normal instances while test data contains both normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ayush K. Rai , Tarun Krishna , Feiyan Hu , Alexandru Drimbarean , Kevin McGuinness , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

Early-stage visual quality inspection is vital for achieving Zero-Defect Manufacturing and minimizing production waste in modern industrial environments. However, the complexity of robust visual inspection systems and their extensive data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jose Moises Araya-Martinez , Gautham Mohan , Kenichi Hayakawa Bolaños , Roberto Mendieta , Sarvenaz Sardari , Jens Lambrecht , Jörg Krüger

Anomaly detection (AD) aims to identify defective images and localize their defects (if any). Ideally, AD models should be able to detect defects over many image classes; without relying on hard-coded class names that can be uninformative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Chih-Hui Ho , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Nuno Vasconcelos

The built environment, encompassing critical infrastructure such as bridges and buildings, requires diligent monitoring of unexpected anomalies or deviations from a normal state in captured imagery. Anomaly detection methods could aid in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Subin Varghese , Vedhus Hoskere

Space missions generate massive volumes of high-resolution orbital and surface imagery that far exceed the capacity for manual inspection. Detecting rare phenomena is scientifically critical, yet traditional supervised learning struggles…

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

Automatic traffic accidents detection has appealed to the machine vision community due to its implications on the development of autonomous intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and importance to traffic safety. Most previous studies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yajun Xu , Chuwen Huang , Yibing Nan , Shiguo Lian

Machine learning has vast potential to improve anomaly detection in satellite telemetry which is a crucial task for spacecraft operations. This potential is currently hampered by a lack of comprehensible benchmarks for multivariate time…

Few-shot anomaly detection (FSAD) has emerged as a crucial yet challenging task in industrial inspection, where normal distribution modeling must be accomplished with only a few normal images. While existing approaches typically employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Qishan Wang , Jia Guo , Shuyong Gao , Haofen Wang , Li Xiong , Junjie Hu , Hanqi Guo , Wenqiang Zhang

Autonomous inspection robots for monitoring industrial sites can reduce costs and risks associated with human-led inspection. However, accurate readings can be challenging due to occlusions, limited viewpoints, or unexpected environmental…