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Visual anomaly classification and segmentation are vital for automating industrial quality inspection. The focus of prior research in the field has been on training custom models for each quality inspection task, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jongheon Jeong , Yang Zou , Taewan Kim , Dongqing Zhang , Avinash Ravichandran , Onkar Dabeer

Recently, large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP have demonstrated immense potential in zero-shot anomaly segmentation (ZSAS) task, utilizing a unified model to directly detect anomalies on any unseen product with painstakingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zhen Qu , Xian Tao , Mukesh Prasad , Fei Shen , Zhengtao Zhang , Xinyi Gong , Guiguang Ding

An innovative few-shot anomaly detection approach is presented, leveraging the pre-trained CLIP model for medical data, and adapting it for both image-level anomaly classification (AC) and pixel-level anomaly segmentation (AS). A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mahshid Shiri , Cigdem Beyan , Vittorio Murino

Recent advancements in large-scale visual-language pre-trained models have led to significant progress in zero-/few-shot anomaly detection within natural image domains. However, the substantial domain divergence between natural and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Chaoqin Huang , Aofan Jiang , Jinghao Feng , Ya Zhang , Xinchao Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Zero-shot anomaly segmentation using pre-trained foundation models is a promising approach that enables effective algorithms without expensive, domain-specific training or fine-tuning. Ensuring that these methods work across various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Kevin Stangl , Marius Arvinte , Weilin Xu , Cory Cornelius

Recently, large vision and language models have shown their success when adapting them to many downstream tasks. In this paper, we present a unified framework named CLIP-ADA for Anomaly Detection by Adapting a pre-trained CLIP model. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Yuxuan Cai , Xinwei He , Dingkang Liang , Ao Tong , Xiang Bai

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

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

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), particularly CLIP, have revolutionized anomaly detection by enabling zero-shot and few-shot defect identification without extensive labeled datasets. By learning aligned representations of images and text,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mohit Kakda , Mirudula Shri Muthukumaran , Uttapreksha Patel , Lawrence Swaminathan Xavier Prince

Medical anomaly detection (MAD) and segmentation play a critical role in assisting clinical diagnosis by identifying abnormal regions in medical images and localizing pathological regions. Recent CLIP-based studies are promising for anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Thuy Truong Tran , Minh Kha Do , Phuc Nguyen Duy , Min Hun Lee

Zero-shot (ZS) 3D anomaly detection is a crucial yet unexplored field that addresses scenarios where target 3D training samples are unavailable due to practical concerns like privacy protection. This paper introduces PointAD, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Qihang Zhou , Jiangtao Yan , Shibo He , Wenchao Meng , Jiming Chen

Recent vision language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated impressive anomaly detection performance under significant distribution shift by utilizing high-level semantic information through text prompts. However, these models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Nadeem Nazer , Hongkuan Zhou , Lavdim Halilaj , Ylli Sadikaj , Steffen Staab

In the field of medical decision-making, precise anomaly detection in medical imaging plays a pivotal role in aiding clinicians. However, previous work is reliant on large-scale datasets for training anomaly detection models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ximiao Zhang , Min Xu , Dehui Qiu , Ruixin Yan , Ning Lang , Xiuzhuang Zhou

Fine-grained anomaly detection is crucial in industrial and medical applications, but labeled anomalies are often scarce, making zero-shot detection challenging. While vision-language models like CLIP offer promising solutions, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Ming Hu , Yongsheng Huo , Mingyu Dou , Jianfu Yin , Peng Zhao , Yao Wang , Cong Hu , Bingliang Hu , Quan Wang

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) methods entail detecting anomalies directly without access to any known normal or abnormal samples within the target item categories. Existing approaches typically rely on the robust generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhaopeng Gu , Bingke Zhu , Guibo Zhu , Yingying Chen , Hao Li , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models have shown promising performance on zero-shot visual recognition tasks by learning visual representations under natural language supervision. Recent studies attempt the use of CLIP to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Hanqiu Deng , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Jinan Bao , Xingyu Li

Recently, vision-language models (e.g. CLIP) have demonstrated remarkable performance in zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD). By leveraging auxiliary data during training, these models can directly perform cross-category anomaly detection on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zhen Qu , Xian Tao , Xinyi Gong , Shichen Qu , Qiyu Chen , Zhengtao Zhang , Xingang Wang , Guiguang Ding

In recent years, the focus on anomaly detection and localization in industrial inspection tasks has intensified. While existing studies have demonstrated impressive outcomes, they often rely heavily on extensive training datasets or robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Ho-Weng Lee , Shang-Hong Lai

Few-normal shot anomaly detection (FNSAD) aims to detect abnormal regions in images using only a few normal training samples, making the task highly challenging due to limited supervision and the diversity of potential defects. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Morteza Poudineh , Marc Lalonde

Visual anomaly detection in multi-class settings poses significant challenges due to the diversity of object categories, the scarcity of anomalous examples, and the presence of camouflaged defects. In this paper, we propose PromptMAD, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Duncan McCain , Hossein Kashiani , Fatemeh Afghah