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The core challenge in unsupervised anomaly detection is identifying abnormal patterns without prior knowledge of their characteristics. While existing methods have addressed aspects of this problem, they often struggle to learn a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Prithul Sarker , Sushmita Sarker , Nicholas G. Murray , Alireza Tavakkoli

To achieve reliable mining results for massive vessel trajectories, one of the most important challenges is how to efficiently compute the similarities between different vessel trajectories. The computation of vessel trajectory similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Maohan Liang , Ryan Wen Liu , Shichen Li , Zhe Xiao , Xin Liu , Feng Lu

Jointing visual-semantic embeddings (VSE) have become a research hotpot for the task of image annotation, which suffers from the issue of semantic gap, i.e., the gap between images' visual features (low-level) and labels' semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Guibing Guo , Songlin Zhai , Fajie Yuan , Yuan Liu , Xingwei Wang

Contrastive self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising approach to unsupervised visual representation learning. In general, these methods learn global (image-level) representations that are invariant to different views (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Pedro O. Pinheiro , Amjad Almahairi , Ryan Y. Benmalek , Florian Golemo , Aaron Courville

In recent years, there is an increasing interests in reconstruction based generative models for image One-Class Novelty Detection, most of which only focus on image-level information. While in this paper, we further exploit the latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ge Zhang , Wangzhe Du

In classification problems, supervised machine-learning methods outperform traditional algorithms, thanks to the ability of neural networks to learn complex patterns. However, in two-class classification tasks like anomaly or fraud…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mihai-Cezar Augustin , Vivien Bonvin , Regis Houssou , Efstratios Rappos , Stephan Robert-Nicoud

Graph autoencoders (GAEs) are powerful tools in representation learning for graph embedding. However, the performance of GAEs is very dependent on the quality of the graph structure, i.e., of the adjacency matrix. In other words, GAEs would…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Rui Zhang , Yunxing Zhang , Xuelong Li

Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) has gained significant research attention for its ability to identify anomalous images and pinpoint the specific areas responsible for the anomaly. A key advantage of VAD is its unsupervised nature, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Manuel Barusco , Francesco Borsatti , Davide Dalle Pezze , Francesco Paissan , Elisabetta Farella , Gian Antonio Susto

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is an important topic in computer vision. Motivated by the recent advances in self-supervised learning, this paper addresses VAD by solving an intuitive yet challenging pretext task, i.e., spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Guodong Wang , Yunhong Wang , Jie Qin , Dongming Zhang , Xiuguo Bao , Di Huang

Visual defect assessment is a form of anomaly detection. This is very relevant in finding faults such as cracks and markings in various surface inspection tasks like pavement and automotive parts. The task involves detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Manpreet Singh Minhas , John Zelek

Time series anomaly detection is important in modern large-scale systems and is applied in a variety of domains to analyze and monitor the operation of diverse systems. Unsupervised approaches have received widespread interest, as they do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Buang Zhang , Tung Kieu , Xiangfei Qiu , Chenjuan Guo , Jilin Hu , Aoying Zhou , Christian S. Jensen , Bin Yang

Advancements in deep learning techniques have given a boost to the performance of anomaly detection. However, real-world and safety-critical applications demand a level of transparency and reasoning beyond accuracy. The task of anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Laya Rafiee Sevyeri , Ivaxi Sheth , Farhood Farahnak , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Shirin Abbasinejad Enger

We focus on a specific use case in anomaly detection where the distribution of normal samples is supported by a lower-dimensional manifold. Here, regularized autoencoders provide a popular approach by learning the identity mapping on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Alexander Bauer , Shinichi Nakajima , Klaus-Robert Müller

Detecting anomalies in multivariate time-series data is essential in many real-world applications. Recently, various deep learning-based approaches have shown considerable improvements in time-series anomaly detection. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Kyeong-Joong Jeong , Yong-Min Shin

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) is an open-set recognition task, which is usually formulated as a one-class classification (OCC) problem, where training data is comprised of videos with normal instances while test data contains both normal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ayush K. Rai , Tarun Krishna , Feiyan Hu , Alexandru Drimbarean , Kevin McGuinness , Alan F. Smeaton , Noel E. O'Connor

Unsupervised learning can leverage large-scale data sources without the need for annotations. In this context, deep learning-based auto encoders have shown great potential in detecting anomalies in medical images. However, state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 David Zimmerer , Simon A. A. Kohl , Jens Petersen , Fabian Isensee , Klaus H. Maier-Hein

As large-scale time-series data can easily be found in real-world applications, multivariate time-series anomaly detection has played an essential role in diverse industries. It enables productivity improvement and maintenance cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Heejeong Choi , Subin Kim , Pilsung Kang

Training-free video anomaly detection (VAD) has recently emerged as a scalable alternative to supervised approaches, yet existing methods largely rely on static prompting and geometry-agnostic feature fusion. As a result, anomaly inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ali Zia , Usman Ali , Muhammad Umer Ramzan , Hamza Abid , Abdul Rehman , Wei Xiang

Recent efforts towards video anomaly detection (VAD) try to learn a deep autoencoder to describe normal event patterns with small reconstruction errors. The video inputs with large reconstruction errors are regarded as anomalies at the test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yuandu Lai , Yahong Han , Yaowei Wang

Video anomaly detection (VAD) is an important computer vision problem. Thanks to the mode coverage capabilities of generative models, the likelihood-based paradigm is catching growing interest, as it can model normal distribution and detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hanwen Zhang , Congqi Cao , Qinyi Lv , Lingtong Min , Yanning Zhang