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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

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are used to analyze embeddings, but their role and practical value are debated. We propose a new perspective on SAEs by demonstrating that they can be naturally understood as topic models. We propose a continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Leander Girrbach , Zeynep Akata

Adapting foundation models for specific purposes has become a standard approach to build machine learning systems for downstream applications. Yet, it is an open question which mechanisms take place during adaptation. Here we develop a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Hyesu Lim , Jinho Choi , Jaegul Choo , Steffen Schneider

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to classify unlabelled images from both `seen' and `unseen' classes by transferring knowledge from a set of labelled `seen' class images. A key theme in existing GCD approaches is adapting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hongjun Wang , Sagar Vaze , Kai Han

Interpolation of sparse pixel information towards a dense target resolution finds its application across multiple disciplines in computer vision. State-of-the-art interpolation of motion fields applies model-based interpolation that makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Christian Unger , Didier Stricker

Robust autonomous driving requires agents to accurately identify unexpected areas (anomalies) in urban scenes. To this end, some critical issues remain open: how to design advisable metric to measure anomalies, and how to properly generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yuanpeng Tu , Yuxi Li , Boshen Zhang , Liang Liu , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Cai Rong Zhao

Anomaly detection plays a crucial role in various real-world applications, including healthcare and finance systems. Owing to the limited number of anomaly labels in these complex systems, unsupervised anomaly detection methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Zongyuan Huang , Baohua Zhang , Guoqiang Hu , Longyuan Li , Yanyan Xu , Yaohui Jin

Zero-shot 3D Anomaly Detection is an emerging task that aims to detect anomalies in a target dataset without any target training data, which is particularly important in scenarios constrained by sample scarcity and data privacy concerns.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zehao Deng , An Liu , Yan Wang

This study investigates unsupervised anomaly action recognition, which identifies video-level abnormal-human-behavior events in an unsupervised manner without abnormal samples, and simultaneously addresses three limitations in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Fumiaki Sato , Ryo Hachiuma , Taiki Sekii

This paper considers zero-shot Anomaly Detection (AD), performing AD without reference images of the test objects. We propose a framework called CLIP-AD to leverage the zero-shot capabilities of the large vision-language model CLIP.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xuhai Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Guanzhong Tian , Haoyang He , Wuhao Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Yong Liu

The deployment of automated pavement defect detection is often hindered by poor cross-domain generalization. Supervised detectors achieve strong in-domain accuracy but require costly re-annotation for new environments, while standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xi Xiao , Zhuxuanzi Wang , Mingqiao Mo , Chen Liu , Chenrui Ma , Yanshu Li , Smita Krishnaswamy , Xiao Wang , Tianyang Wang

In autonomous driving, a LiDAR-based object detector should perform reliably at different geographic locations and under various weather conditions. While recent 3D detection research focuses on improving performance within a single domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Qiangeng Xu , Yin Zhou , Weiyue Wang , Charles R. Qi , Dragomir Anguelov

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are an unsupervised method for learning a sparse decomposition of a neural network's latent representations into seemingly interpretable features. Despite recent excitement about their potential, research…

Adapting vision-language models to remote sensing imagery presents a fundamental challenge: both the visual and linguistic distributions of satellite data lie far outside natural image pretraining corpora. Despite this, prompting remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Harshith Kethavath , Weiming Hu

Learning semantic segmentation models under image-level supervision is far more challenging than under fully supervised setting. Without knowing the exact pixel-label correspondence, most weakly-supervised methods rely on external models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Zi-Yi Ke , Chiou-Ting Hsu

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a technique for sparse decomposition of neural network activations into human-interpretable features. However, current SAEs suffer from feature absorption, where specialized features capture instances of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Anton Korznikov , Andrey Galichin , Alexey Dontsov , Oleg Rogov , Elena Tutubalina , Ivan Oseledets

Zero-shot 3D anomaly detection aims to identify anomalies without access to training data from target categories. However, existing methods mainly rely on projecting 3D observations into multi-view representations that primarily capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Letian Bai , Xuanming Cao , Juan Du , Chengyu Tao

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have recently become central tools for interpretability, leveraging dictionary learning principles to extract sparse, interpretable features from neural representations whose underlying structure is typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Valérie Costa , Thomas Fel , Ekdeep Singh Lubana , Bahareh Tolooshams , Demba Ba

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