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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-shot detection (ZSD), i.e., detection on classes not seen during training, is essential for real world detection use-cases, but remains a difficult task. Recent research attempts ZSD with detection models that output embeddings instead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Katharina Kornmeier , Ulla Scheler , Pascal Herrmann

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) often leverages pretrained vision or vision-language models, but many existing methods use prompt learning or complex modeling to fit the data distribution, resulting in high training or inference cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chaoran Xu , Chengkan Lv , Qiyu Chen , Feng Zhang , Zhengtao Zhang

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

Industrial anomaly classification (AC) is an indispensable task in industrial manufacturing, which guarantees quality and safety of various product. To address the scarcity of data in industrial scenarios, lots of few-shot anomaly detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Zuo Zuo , Jiahao Dong , Yao Wu , Yanyun Qu , Zongze Wu

Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) recognizes and localizes anomalies in previously unseen objects by establishing feature mapping between textual prompts and inspection images, demonstrating excellent research value in flexible industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Huilin Deng , Hongchen Luo , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Yu Kang

Universal visual anomaly detection aims to identify anomalies from novel or unseen vision domains without additional fine-tuning, which is critical in open scenarios. Recent studies have demonstrated that pre-trained vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Bin-Bin Gao , Yue Zhou , Jiangtao Yan , Yuezhi Cai , Weixi Zhang , Meng Wang , Jun Liu , Yong Liu , Lei Wang , Chengjie Wang

Adapting CLIP for anomaly detection on unseen objects has shown strong potential in a zero-shot manner. However, existing methods typically rely on a single textual space to align with visual semantics across diverse objects and domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Qihang Zhou , Binbin Gao , Guansong Pang , Xin Wang , Jiming Chen , Shibo He

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

Anomaly detection in chest X-rays is a critical task. Most methods mainly model the distribution of normal images, and then regard significant deviation from normal distribution as anomaly. Recently, CLIP-based methods, pre-trained on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhichao Sun , Yuliang Gu , Yepeng Liu , Zerui Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Yongchao Xu

The CLIP model's outstanding generalization has driven recent success in Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection (ZSAD) for detecting anomalies in unseen categories. The core challenge in ZSAD is to specialize the model for anomaly detection tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jun Yeong Park , JunYoung Seo , Minji Kang , Yu Rang Park

Recently, the powerful generalization ability exhibited by foundation models has brought forth new solutions for zero-shot anomaly segmentation tasks. However, guiding these foundation models correctly to address downstream tasks remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yanning Hou , Ke Xu , Junfa Li , Yanran Ruan , Jianfeng Qiu

Anomaly segmentation is essential for industrial quality, maintenance, and stability. Existing text-guided zero-shot anomaly segmentation models are effective but rely on fixed prompts, limiting adaptability in diverse industrial scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 SoYoung Park , Hyewon Lee , Mingyu Choi , Seunghoon Han , Jong-Ryul Lee , Sungsu Lim , Tae-Ho Kim

Multi-modal image-text models such as CLIP and LiT have demonstrated impressive performance on image classification benchmarks and their zero-shot generalization ability is particularly exciting. While the top-5 zero-shot accuracies of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Yunhao Ge , Jie Ren , Andrew Gallagher , Yuxiao Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Hartwig Adam , Laurent Itti , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Jiaping Zhao

Fine-tuning vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP to downstream tasks is often necessary to optimize their performance. However, a major obstacle is the limited availability of labeled data. We study the use of pseudolabels, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Cristina Menghini , Andrew Delworth , Stephen H. Bach

A pre-trained visual-language model, contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP), successfully accomplishes various downstream tasks with text prompts, such as finding images or localizing regions within the image. Despite CLIP's strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 YeongHyeon Park , Myung Jin Kim , Hyeong Seok Kim

Recently, large pre-trained vision-language models have shown remarkable performance in zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD). With fine-tuning on a single auxiliary dataset, the model enables cross-category anomaly detection on diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qiyu Chen , Zhen Qu , Wei Luo , Haiming Yao , Yunkang Cao , Yuxin Jiang , Yinan Duan , Huiyuan Luo , Chengkan Lv , Zhengtao Zhang

The inability of state-of-the-art semantic segmentation methods to detect anomaly instances hinders them from being deployed in safety-critical and complex applications, such as autonomous driving. Recent approaches have focused on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Giancarlo Di Biase , Hermann Blum , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

Generalized Zero-shot Semantic Segmentation aims to segment both seen and unseen categories only under the supervision of the seen ones. To tackle this, existing methods adopt the large-scale Vision Language Models (VLMs) which obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jialei Chen , Daisuke Deguchi , Chenkai Zhang , Xu Zheng , Hiroshi Murase

Current zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) methods show remarkable success in prompting large pre-trained vision-language models to detect anomalies in a target dataset without using any dataset-specific training or demonstration. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Jiawen Zhu , Yew-Soon Ong , Chunhua Shen , Guansong Pang