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Industrial anomaly detection (AD) plays a significant role in manufacturing where a long-standing challenge is data scarcity. A growing body of works have emerged to address insufficient anomaly data via anomaly generation. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Zuo Zuo , Jiahao Dong , Yanyun Qu , Zongze Wu

Anomaly detection is a fundamental task in machine learning and data mining, with significant applications in cybersecurity, industrial fault diagnosis, and clinical disease monitoring. Traditional methods, such as statistical modeling and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yi Chen

Video anomaly detection is a challenging task not only because it involves solving many sub-tasks such as motion representation, object localization and action recognition, but also because it is commonly considered as an unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Yuqi Ouyang , Victor Sanchez

Video anomaly detection is well investigated in weakly-supervised and one-class classification (OCC) settings. However, unsupervised video anomaly detection methods are quite sparse, likely because anomalies are less frequent in occurrence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Arif Mahmood , Muhammad Haris Khan , Mattia Segu , Fisher Yu , Seung-Ik Lee

Learning to detect real-world anomalous events using video-level annotations is a difficult task mainly because of the noise present in labels. An anomalous labelled video may actually contain anomaly only in a short duration while the rest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Jin-ha Lee , Marcella Astrid , Arif Mahmood , Seung-Ik Lee

The growing demand for intelligent security in consumer electronics, such as smart home cameras and personal monitoring systems, is often hindered by the high computational cost and large model sizes of advanced AI. These limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Wen-Dong Jiang , Chih-Yung Chang , Ssu-Chi Kuai , Diptendu Sinha Roy

Videos represent the primary source of information for surveillance applications and are available in large amounts but in most cases contain little or no annotation for supervised learning. This article reviews the state-of-the-art deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-31 B Ravi Kiran , Dilip Mathew Thomas , Ranjith Parakkal

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

Industrial anomaly detection (AD) is characterized by an abundance of normal images but a scarcity of anomalous ones. Although numerous few-shot anomaly synthesis methods have been proposed to augment anomalous data for downstream AD tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Haoxiang Rao , Zhao Wang , Chenyang Si , Yan Lyu , Yuanyi Duan , Fang Zhao , Caifeng Shan

The application of supervised models to clinical screening tasks is challenging due to the need for annotated data for each considered pathology. Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) is an alternative approach that aims to identify any…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Finn Behrendt , Debayan Bhattacharya , Robin Mieling , Lennart Maack , Julia Krüger , Roland Opfer , Alexander Schlaefer

Continual Anomaly Detection (CAD) enables anomaly detection models in learning new classes while preserving knowledge of historical classes. CAD faces two key challenges: catastrophic forgetting and segmentation of small anomalous regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lei Hu , Zhiyong Gan , Ling Deng , Jinglin Liang , Lingyu Liang , Shuangping Huang , Tianshui Chen

In recent years, many works have addressed the problem of finding never-seen-before anomalies in videos. Yet, most work has been focused on detecting anomalous frames in surveillance videos taken from security cameras. Meanwhile, the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Laura Kart , Niv Cohen

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has traditionally been framed as binary classification or outlier detection, providing neither interpretable reasoning nor precise spatial localization of anomalous events. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Sakshi Agarwal , Aishik Konwer , Ankit Parag Shah

Class imbalance is a persistent challenge in visual recognition, particularly in safety-critical domains where collecting positive examples is expensive and rare events are inherently underrepresented. We propose a lightweight synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Daniil Dushenev , Nazariy Karpov , Daniil Zinovjev , Alexander Gorin , Konstantin Kulikov

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is a fundamental challenge in computer vision, particularly due to the open-set nature of anomalies. While recent training-free approaches utilizing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown promise, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Lokman Bekit , Hamza Karim , Nghia T Nguyen , Yasin Yilmaz

Synthetically augmenting training datasets with diffusion models has become an effective strategy for improving the generalization of image classifiers. However, existing approaches typically increase dataset size by 10-30x and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Dang Nguyen , Jiping Li , Jinghao Zheng , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Known for their impressive performance in generative modeling, diffusion models are attractive candidates for density-based anomaly detection. This paper investigates different variations of diffusion modeling for unsupervised and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Victor Livernoche , Vineet Jain , Yashar Hezaveh , Siamak Ravanbakhsh

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) has been extensively studied under the settings of One-Class Classification (OCC) and Weakly-Supervised learning (WS), which however both require laborious human-annotated normal/abnormal labels. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yongwei Nie , Hao Huang , Chengjiang Long , Qing Zhang , Pradipta Maji , Hongmin Cai

Most existing anomaly detection (AD) methods require a dedicated model for each category. Such a paradigm, despite its promising results, is computationally expensive and inefficient, thereby failing to meet the requirements for realworld…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Chaoqin Huang , Haoyan Guan , Aofan Jiang , Ya Zhang , Michael Spratling , Xinchao Wang , Yanfeng Wang

The performance of visual anomaly inspection in industrial quality control is often constrained by the scarcity of real anomalous samples. Consequently, anomaly synthesis techniques have been developed to enlarge training sets and enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yishen Liu , Hongcang Chen , Pengcheng Zhao , Yunfan Bao , Yuxi Tian , Jieming Zhang , Hao Chen , Zheng Zhi , Yongchun Liu , Ying Li , Dongpu Cao