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We study the problem of semi-supervised anomaly detection with domain adaptation. Given a set of normal data from a source domain and a limited amount of normal examples from a target domain, the goal is to have a well-performing anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Ziyi Yang , Iman Soltani Bozchalooi , Eric Darve

Anomaly detection (AD) is essential for industrial inspection and medical diagnosis, yet existing methods typically rely on ``comparing'' test images to normal references from a training set. However, variations in appearance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Wei Luo , Haiming Yao , Yunkang Cao , Qiyu Chen , Ang Gao , Weiming Shen , Wenyong Yu

Universal anomaly detection still remains a challenging problem in machine learning and medical image analysis. It is possible to learn an expected distribution from a single class of normative samples, e.g., through epistemic uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Johanna P. Müller , Matthew Baugh , Jeremy Tan , Mischa Dombrowski , Bernhard Kainz

Recent advances in diffusion models have spurred research into their application for Reconstruction-based unsupervised anomaly detection. However, these methods may struggle with maintaining structural integrity and recovering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Farzad Beizaee , Gregory A. Lodygensky , Christian Desrosiers , Jose Dolz

Prototype-based meta-learning has emerged as a powerful technique for addressing few-shot learning challenges. However, estimating a deterministic prototype using a simple average function from a limited number of examples remains a fragile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yingjun Du , Zehao Xiao , Shengcai Liao , Cees Snoek

The robust causal capability of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) hold the potential of detecting defective objects in Industrial Anomaly Detection (IAD). However, most traditional IAD methods lack the ability to provide multi-turn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Zewen Li , Zitong Yu , Qilang Ye , Weicheng Xie , Wei Zhuo , Linlin Shen

The ongoing challenges in time series anomaly detection (TSAD), notably the scarcity of anomaly labels and the variability in anomaly lengths and shapes, have led to the need for a more efficient solution. As limited anomaly labels hinder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yuting Sun , Guansong Pang , Guanhua Ye , Tong Chen , Xia Hu , Hongzhi Yin

Anomaly detection (AD) is the machine learning task of identifying highly discrepant abnormal samples by solely relying on the consistency of the normal training samples. Under the constraints of a distribution shift, the assumption that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 João B. S. Carvalho , Mengtao Zhang , Robin Geyer , Carlos Cotrini , Joachim M. Buhmann

Deep anomaly detection models using a supervised mode of learning usually work under a closed set assumption and suffer from overfitting to previously seen rare anomalies at training, which hinders their applicability in a real scenario. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Guillaume Vray , Jean-Philippe Thiran

This paper introduces the first fully unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) framework for unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD). The performance of UAD techniques degrades significantly in the presence of a domain shift, difficult to avoid in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Nesryne Mejri , Enjie Ghorbel , Anis Kacem , Pavel Chernakov , Niki Foteinopoulou , Djamila Aouada

Prototypical self-supervised learning methods consistently suffer from partial prototype collapse, where multiple prototypes converge to nearly identical representations. This undermines their central purpose -- providing diverse and…

Unsupervised medical anomaly detection is severely limited by the scarcity of normal training samples. Existing methods typically train dedicated models for each dataset or disease, requiring hundreds of normal images per task and lacking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Ning Zhu

This study explores the recently proposed and challenging multi-view Anomaly Detection (AD) task. Single-view tasks will encounter blind spots from other perspectives, resulting in inaccuracies in sample-level prediction. Therefore, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Haoyang He , Jiangning Zhang , Guanzhong Tian , Chengjie Wang , Lei Xie

Semi-supervised anomaly detection (SSAD) methods have demonstrated their effectiveness in enhancing unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) by leveraging few-shot but instructive abnormal instances. However, the dominance of homogeneous normal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Yixuan Zhou , Peiyu Yang , Yi Qu , Xing Xu , Zhe Sun , Andrzej Cichocki

Most models for weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WS-VAD) rely on multiple instance learning, aiming to distinguish normal and abnormal snippets without specifying the type of anomaly. However, the ambiguous nature of anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Chenchen Tao , Xiaohao Peng , Chong Wang , Jiafei Wu , Puning Zhao , Jun Wang , Jiangbo Qian

Anomaly detection methods require high-quality features. In recent years, the anomaly detection community has attempted to obtain better features using advances in deep self-supervised feature learning. Surprisingly, a very promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Tal Reiss , Niv Cohen , Liron Bergman , Yedid Hoshen

In recommendation systems, items are likely to be exposed to various users and we would like to learn about the familiarity of a new user with an existing item. This can be formulated as an anomaly detection (AD) problem distinguishing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Ke Bai , Aonan Zhang , Zhizhong Li , Ricardo Heano , Chong Wang , Lawrence Carin

Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection (AD) is a kind of data mining task which aims at learning features from partially-labeled datasets to help detect outliers. In this paper, we classify existing semi-supervised AD methods into two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Chao Chen , Dawei Wang , Feng Mao , Zongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu

Anomaly detection from a single image is challenging since anomaly data is always rare and can be with highly unpredictable types. With only anomaly-free data available, most existing methods train an AutoEncoder to reconstruct the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yunfei Liu , Chaoqun Zhuang , Feng Lu

Anomaly detection is a fundamental yet challenging problem in machine learning due to the lack of label information. In this work, we propose a novel and powerful framework, dubbed as SLA$^2$P, for unsupervised anomaly detection. After…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Yizhou Wang , Can Qin , Rongzhe Wei , Yi Xu , Yue Bai , Yun Fu