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Despite the rapid advance of unsupervised anomaly detection, existing methods require to train separate models for different objects. In this work, we present UniAD that accomplishes anomaly detection for multiple classes with a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Zhiyuan You , Lei Cui , Yujun Shen , Kai Yang , Xin Lu , Yu Zheng , Xinyi Le

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is crucial for video analysis and surveillance in computer vision. However, existing VAD models rely on learned normal patterns, which makes them difficult to apply to diverse environments. Consequently, users…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Sunghyun Ahn , Youngwan Jo , Kijung Lee , Sein Kwon , Inpyo Hong , Sanghyun Park

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

In line with the development of deep learning, this survey examines the transformative role of Transformers and foundation models in advancing visual anomaly detection (VAD). We explore how these architectures, with their global receptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Mouïn Ben Ammar , Arturo Mendoza , Nacim Belkhir , Antoine Manzanera , Gianni Franchi

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) is a key data mining problem owing to its wide real-world applications. Due to the complete absence of supervision signals, UAD methods rely on implicit assumptions about anomalous patterns (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Hangting Ye , Zhining Liu , Xinyi Shen , Wei Cao , Shun Zheng , Xiaofan Gui , Huishuai Zhang , Yi Chang , Jiang Bian

Many anomaly detection approaches, especially deep learning methods, have been recently developed to identify abnormal image morphology by only employing normal images during training. Unfortunately, many prior anomaly detection methods…

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) enables models trained on a labeled source domain to handle new unlabeled domains. Recently, pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated promising zero-shot performance by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Xinyao Li , Jingjing Li , Zhekai Du , Lei Zhu , Heng Tao Shen

Few-shot anomaly detection (FSAD) has made significant strides, yet existing methods still face critical challenges: (i) dependence on task- or dataset-specific training/fine-tuning, (ii) reliance on language supervision or carefully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guohuan Xie , Xin He , Dingying Fan , Siqi Li , Yun Liu

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) with incremental training is crucial in industrial manufacturing, as unpredictable defects make obtaining sufficient labeled data infeasible. However, continual learning methods primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Jiaqi Liu , Kai Wu , Qiang Nie , Ying Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Yong Liu , Jinbao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng

Precise anomaly detection in medical images is critical for clinical decision-making. While recent unsupervised or semi-supervised anomaly detection methods trained on large-scale normal data show promising results, they lack fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yue Zhou , Yuan Bi , Wenjuan Tong , Wei Wang , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

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

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

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

This paper considers few-shot anomaly detection (FSAD), a practical yet under-studied setting for anomaly detection (AD), where only a limited number of normal images are provided for each category at training. So far, existing FSAD studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Chaoqin Huang , Haoyan Guan , Aofan Jiang , Ya Zhang , Michael Spratling , Yan-Feng Wang

Humans detect real-world object anomalies by perceiving, interacting, and reasoning based on object-conditioned physical knowledge. The long-term goal of Industrial Anomaly Detection (IAD) is to enable machines to autonomously replicate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Wenqiao Li , Yao Gu , Xintao Chen , Xiaohao Xu , Ming Hu , Xiaonan Huang , Yingna Wu

Anomaly detection is vital in various industrial scenarios, including the identification of unusual patterns in production lines and the detection of manufacturing defects for quality control. Existing techniques tend to be specialized in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Xiaohao Xu , Yunkang Cao , Huaxin Zhang , Nong Sang , Xiaonan Huang

Visual anomaly detection aims to learn normality from normal images, but existing approaches are fragmented across various tasks: defect detection, semantic anomaly detection, multi-class anomaly detection, and anomaly clustering. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yujin Lee , Harin Lim , Seoyoon Jang , Hyunsoo Yoon

Zero-Shot Video Anomaly Detection (ZS-VAD) requires temporally localizing anomalies without target domain training data, which is a crucial task due to various practical concerns, e.g., data privacy or new surveillance deployments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Canhui Tang , Sanping Zhou , Haoyue Shi , Le Wang

Anomaly detection (AD) is a fundamental research problem in machine learning and computer vision, with practical applications in industrial inspection, video surveillance, and medical diagnosis. In medical imaging, AD is especially vital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Jinan Bao , Hanshi Sun , Hanqiu Deng , Yinsheng He , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Xingyu Li

Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection (ZSAD) aims to identify and localize anomalous regions in images of unseen object classes. While recent methods based on vision-language models like CLIP show promise, their performance is constrained by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yuheng Shao , Lizhang Wang , Changhao Li , Peixian Chen , Qinyuan Liu