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Industrial and medical anomaly detection faces critical challenges from data scarcity and prohibitive annotation costs, particularly in evolving manufacturing and healthcare settings. To address this, we propose CoZAD, a novel zero-shot…

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

Zero-shot 3D Anomaly Detection is an emerging task that aims to detect anomalies in a target dataset without any target training data, which is particularly important in scenarios constrained by sample scarcity and data privacy concerns.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zehao Deng , An Liu , Yan Wang

Visual anomaly detection is vital in real-world applications, such as industrial defect detection and medical diagnosis. However, most existing methods focus on local structural anomalies and fail to detect higher-level functional anomalies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yun Peng , Xiao Lin , Nachuan Ma , Jiayuan Du , Chuangwei Liu , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Automatic image anomaly detection is important for quality inspection in the manufacturing industry. The usual unsupervised anomaly detection approach is to train a model for each object class using a dataset of normal samples. However, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuanwei Li , Elizaveta Ivanova , Martins Bruveris

Zero- and few-shot visual anomaly segmentation relies on powerful vision-language models that detect unseen anomalies using manually designed textual prompts. However, visual representations are inherently independent of language. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Bin-Bin Gao

This technical report outlines our submission to the zero-shot track of the Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection (VAND) 2023 Challenge. Building on the performance of the WINCLIP framework, we aim to enhance the system's localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Matthew Baugh , James Batten , Johanna P. Müller , Bernhard Kainz

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) enables identifying and localizing defects in unseen categories by relying solely on generalizable features rather than requiring any labeled examples of anomalies. However, existing ZSAD methods, whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zihan Wang , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Narges Armanfard

Anomaly detection (AD) aims at detecting abnormal samples that deviate from the expected normal patterns. Generally, it can be trained merely on normal data, without a requirement for abnormal samples, and thereby plays an important role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yu Cai , Weiwen Zhang , Hao Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng

This paper considers zero-shot Anomaly Detection (AD), performing AD without reference images of the test objects. We propose a framework called CLIP-AD to leverage the zero-shot capabilities of the large vision-language model CLIP.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xuhai Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Guanzhong Tian , Haoyang He , Wuhao Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Yong Liu

Automatic detection of visual anomalies and changes in the environment has been a topic of recurrent attention in the fields of machine learning and computer vision over the past decades. A visual anomaly or change detection algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Sahar Salimpour , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Continual anomaly detection (CAD) addresses the need for industrial inspection systems to adapt to evolving production conditions, yet existing methods share three critical gaps: unrealistic evaluation, no systematic comparison, and no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chad Weatherly , Sen Lin

This paper presents the first application of neural architecture search to the complex task of segmenting visual anomalies. Measurement of anomaly segmentation performance is challenging due to imbalanced anomaly pixels, varying region…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Tommie Kerssies , Joaquin Vanschoren

Large multimodal models (LMMs) exhibit strong task generalization capabilities, offering new opportunities for zero-shot visual anomaly segmentation (ZSAS). However, existing LMM-based segmentation approaches still face fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zhen Qu , Xian Tao , Xiaoyi Bao , Dingrong Wang , ShiChen Qu , Zhengtao Zhang , Xingang Wang

This article provides a thorough meta-analysis of the anomaly detection problem. To accomplish this we first identify approaches to benchmarking anomaly detection algorithms across the literature and produce a large corpus of anomaly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Andrew Emmott , Shubhomoy Das , Thomas Dietterich , Alan Fern , Weng-Keen Wong

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) from images strives to model normal data distributions, creating discriminative representations to distinguish and precisely localize anomalies. Despite recent advancements in the efficient and unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Wenxin Ma , Qingsong Yao , Xiang Zhang , Zhelong Huang , Zihang Jiang , S. Kevin Zhou

In this work, by re-examining the "matching" nature of Anomaly Detection (AD), we propose a new AD framework that simultaneously enjoys new records of AD accuracy and dramatically high running speed. In this framework, the anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hanxi Li , Jianfei Hu , Bo Li , Hao Chen , Yongbin Zheng , Chunhua Shen

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to identify abnormal nodes that differ from the majority of the nodes in a graph, which has been attracting significant attention in recent years. Existing generalist graph models have achieved remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hezhe Qiao , Chaoxi Niu , Ling Chen , Guansong Pang

Industrial image anomaly detection (IAD) is a pivotal topic with huge value. Due to anomaly's nature, real anomalies in a specific modern industrial domain (i.e. domain-specific anomalies) are usually too rare to collect, which severely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Siqi Wang , Yuanze Hu , Xinwang Liu , Siwei Wang , Guangpu Wang , Chuanfu Xu , Jie Liu , Ping Chen

The goal of unsupervised anomaly segmentation (UAS) is to detect the pixel-level anomalies unseen during training. It is a promising field in the medical imaging community, e.g, we can use the model trained with only healthy data to segment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Chenxin Li , Yunlong Zhang , Jiongcheng Li , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding

Anomaly Detection is a relevant problem in numerous real-world applications, especially when dealing with images. However, little attention has been paid to the issue of changes over time in the input data distribution, which may cause a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Nikola Bugarin , Jovana Bugaric , Manuel Barusco , Davide Dalle Pezze , Gian Antonio Susto