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Automatic detecting anomalous regions in images of objects or textures without priors of the anomalies is challenging, especially when the anomalies appear in very small areas of the images, making difficult-to-detect visual variations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jie Yang , Yong Shi , Zhiquan Qi

Though anomaly detection (AD) can be viewed as a classification problem (nominal vs. anomalous) it is usually treated in an unsupervised manner since one typically does not have access to, or it is infeasible to utilize, a dataset that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Lukas Ruff , Robert A. Vandermeulen , Billy Joe Franks , Klaus-Robert Müller , Marius Kloft

Diffusion models have been recently used for anomaly detection (AD) in images. In this paper we investigate whether they can also be leveraged for AD on multivariate time series (MTS). We test two diffusion-based models and compare them to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Ioana Pintilie , Andrei Manolache , Florin Brad

Existing industrial anomaly detection methods mainly determine whether an anomaly is present. However, real-world applications also require discovering and classifying multiple anomaly types. Since industrial anomalies are semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Botong Zhao , Qijun Shi , Shujing Lyu , Yue Lu

Anomaly detection in tabular data remains challenging due to complex feature interactions and the scarcity of anomalous examples. Denoising autoencoders rely on fixed-magnitude noise, limiting adaptability to diverse data distributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Anomaly detection is facing with emerging challenges in many important industry domains, such as cyber security and online recommendation and advertising. The recent trend in these areas calls for anomaly detection on time-evolving data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Zheng Gao , Lin Guo , Chi Ma , Xiao Ma , Kai Sun , Hang Xiang , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Hongsong Li , Xiaozhong Liu

Unsupervised Anomaly detection (AD) requires building a notion of normalcy, distinguishing in-distribution (ID) and out-of-distribution (OOD) data, using only available ID samples. Recently, large gains were made on this task for the domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Mohamed Yousef , Marcel Ackermann , Unmesh Kurup , Tom Bishop

Unsupervised anomaly detection and localization is crucial to the practical application when collecting and labeling sufficient anomaly data is infeasible. Most existing representation-based approaches extract normal image features with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Jiawei Yu , Ye Zheng , Xiang Wang , Wei Li , Yushuang Wu , Rui Zhao , Liwei Wu

Chest X-ray (CXR) is the most typical radiological exam for diagnosis of various diseases. Due to the expensive and time-consuming annotations, detecting anomalies in CXRs in an unsupervised fashion is very promising. However, almost all of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Yu Cai , Hao Chen , Xin Yang , Yu Zhou , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Detecting anomalies from 3D point clouds has received increasing attention in the field of computer vision, with some group-based or point-based methods achieving impressive results in recent years. However, learning accurate point-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Haibo Xiao , Hanzhe Liang , Jie Zhou , Jinbao Wang , Can Gao

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) methods aim to identify anomalies in test samples comparing them with a normative distribution learned from a dataset known to be anomaly-free. Approaches based on generative models offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Sergio Naval Marimont , Vasilis Siomos , Matthew Baugh , Christos Tzelepis , Bernhard Kainz , Giacomo Tarroni

Anomaly localization in images -- identifying regions that deviate from normal patterns -- is vital in applications such as medical diagnosis and industrial inspection. A recent trend is the use of image generation models in anomaly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-28 Teruyuki Katsuoka , Tomohiro Shiraishi , Daiki Miwa , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Ichiro Takeuchi

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) attracts a lot of research interest and drives widespread applications, where only anomaly-free samples are available for training. Some UAD applications intend to further locate the anomalous regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yixuan Zhou , Xing Xu , Jingkuan Song , Fumin Shen , Heng Tao Shen

We present PD-REAL, a novel large-scale dataset for unsupervised anomaly detection (AD) in the 3D domain. It is motivated by the fact that 2D-only representations in the AD task may fail to capture the geometric structures of anomalies due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Jianjian Qin , Chao Zhang , Chunzhi Gu , Zi Wang , Jun Yu , Yijin Wei , Hui Xiao , Xin Yu

In this work, we present a novel approach to transform supervised classifiers into effective unsupervised anomaly detectors. The method we have developed, termed Discriminatory Detection of Distortions (DDD), enhances anomaly detection by…

Training a unified model is considered to be more suitable for practical industrial anomaly detection scenarios due to its generalization ability and storage efficiency. However, this multi-class setting, which exclusively uses normal data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jianlong Hu , Xu Chen , Zhenye Gan , Jinlong Peng , Shengchuan Zhang , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

Anomaly detection in medical imaging plays a crucial role in identifying pathological regions across various imaging modalities, such as brain MRI, liver CT, and carotid ultrasound (US). However, training fully supervised segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Yuan Bi , Lucie Huang , Ricarda Clarenbach , Reza Ghotbi , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

Prototype-based meta-learning has emerged as a powerful technique for addressing few-shot learning challenges. However, estimating a deterministic prototype using a simple average function from a limited number of examples remains a fragile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yingjun Du , Zehao Xiao , Shengcai Liao , Cees Snoek

Unsupervised anomaly detection encompasses diverse applications in industrial settings where a high-throughput and precision is imperative. Early works were centered around one-class-one-model paradigm, which poses significant challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Sushovan Jena , Vishwas Saini , Ujjwal Shaw , Pavitra Jain , Abhay Singh Raihal , Anoushka Banerjee , Sharad Joshi , Ananth Ganesh , Arnav Bhavsar

Recent studies show that using potential out-of-distribution (OOD) labels from large corpora as auxiliary information can improve OOD detection in vision-language models (VLMs). However, these methods often fail when real-world OOD samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yanqi Wu , Xinhua Lu , Runhe Lai , Qichao Chen , Jia-Xin Zhuang , Wei-Shi Zheng , Ruixuan Wang