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Industrial Anomaly Detection (IAD) is a subproblem within Computer Vision Anomaly Detection that has been receiving increasing amounts of attention due to its applicability to real-life scenarios. Recent research has focused on how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mariette Schönfeld , Wannes Meert , Hendrik Blockeel

This paper presents LogiCode, a novel framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) for identifying logical anomalies in industrial settings, moving beyond traditional focus on structural inconsistencies. By harnessing LLMs for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yiheng Zhang , Yunkang Cao , Xiaohao Xu , Weiming Shen

Anomaly Detection (AD) focuses on detecting samples that differ from the standard pattern, making it a vital tool in process control. Logical anomalies may appear visually normal yet violate predefined constraints on object presence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yejin Kwon , Daeun Moon , Youngje Oh , Hyunsoo Yoon

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable reasoning and perceptual abilities for anomaly detection. However, most approaches remain confined to image-level anomaly detection and textual reasoning, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yizhou Jin , Yuezhu Feng , Jinjin Zhang , Peng Wang , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

In recent years, Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) has gained significant attention due to its ability to identify defects using only normal images during training. Many VAD models work without supervision but are still able to provide visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Arianna Stropeni , Valentina Zaccaria , Francesco Borsatti , Davide Dalle Pezze , Manuel Barusco , Gian Antonio Susto

Real-world industrial inspection requires not only localizing defects, but also explaining them in natural language and generating controlled defect edits. However, existing approaches fail to jointly support all three capabilities within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Haoyu Zheng , Tianwei Lin , Wei Wang , Zhuonan Wang , Wenqiao Zhang , Jiaqi Zhu , Feifei Shao

Medical Anomaly Detection (MedAD) presents a significant opportunity to enhance diagnostic accuracy using Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) to interpret and answer questions based on medical images. However, the reliance on Supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Haitao Zhang , Yingying Wang , Jiaxiang Wang , Haote Xu , Hongyang Zhang , Yirong Chen , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding

Automated video surveillance with Large Vision-Language Models is limited by their inherent bias towards normality, often failing to detect crimes. While Chain-of-Thought reasoning strategies show significant potential for improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Pedro Domingos , João Pereira , Vasco Lopes , João Neves , David Semedo

Industrial anomaly detection based on RGB-3D multimodal data has emerged as a mainstream paradigm for intelligent quality inspection. However, existing unsupervised methods suffer from two critical limitations: ambiguous cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zewen Li , Shuo Ye , Zitong Yu , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen

Industrial Anomaly Detection (IAD) is vital for manufacturing, yet traditional methods face significant challenges: unsupervised approaches yield rough localizations requiring manual thresholds, while supervised methods overfit due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Pengfei Yue , Xiaokang Jiang , Yilin Lu , Jianghang Lin , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao

Logical anomalies are violations of predefined constraints on object quantity, spatial layout, and compositional relationships in industrial images. While prior work largely treats anomaly detection as a binary decision, such formulations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xufei Zhang , Xinjiao Zhou , Ziling Deng , Dongdong Geng , Jianxiong Wang

Due to the scarcity and unpredictable nature of defect samples, industrial anomaly detection (IAD) predominantly employs unsupervised learning. However, all unsupervised IAD methods face a common challenge: the inherent bias in normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Xin Chen , Liujuan Cao , Shengchuan Zhang , Xiewu Zheng , Yan Zhang

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

Time series anomaly detection is critical in many real-world applications, where effective solutions must localize anomalous regions and support reliable decision-making under complex settings. However, most existing methods frame anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xiaoyu Tao , Yuchong Wu , Mingyue Cheng , Ze Guo , Tian Gao

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown promising progress in general multimodal tasks, they often struggle in industrial anomaly detection and reasoning, particularly in delivering interpretable explanations and generalizing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Guoxin Zang , Xue Li , Donglin Di , Lanshun Nie , Dechen Zhan , Yang Song , Lei Fan

Time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) increasingly demands explanations that articulate not only if an anomaly occurred, but also what pattern it exhibits and why it is anomalous. Leveraging the impressive explanatory capabilities of Large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Tian Lan , Hao Duong Le , Jinbo Li , Wenjun He , Meng Wang , Chenghao Liu , Chen Zhang

Pursuing fast and robust interpretability in Anomaly Detection is crucial, especially due to its significance in practical applications. Traditional Anomaly Detection methods excel in outlier identification but are often black-boxes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Valentina Zaccaria , David Dandolo , Chiara Masiero , Gian Antonio Susto

Foundation models, e.g., large language models (LLMs), trained on internet-scale data possess zero-shot generalization capabilities that make them a promising technology towards detecting and mitigating out-of-distribution failure modes of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Rohan Sinha , Amine Elhafsi , Christopher Agia , Matthew Foutter , Edward Schmerling , Marco Pavone

Although multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced industrial anomaly detection toward a zero-shot paradigm, they still tend to produce high-confidence yet unreliable decisions in fine-grained and structurally complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chao Huang , Yanhui Li , Yunkang Cao , Wei Wang , Hongxi Huang , Jie Wen , Wenqi Ren , Xiaochun Cao

In the field of industrial inspection, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have a high potential to renew the paradigms in practical applications due to their robust language capabilities and generalization abilities. However, despite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Xi Jiang , Jian Li , Hanqiu Deng , Yong Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Yifeng Zhou , Jialin Li , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng