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Due to the unsupervised nature of anomaly detection, the key to fueling deep models is finding supervisory signals. Different from current reconstruction-guided generative models and transformation-based contrastive models, we devise novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hongzuo Xu , Yijie Wang , Juhui Wei , Songlei Jian , Yizhou Li , Ning Liu

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is an emerging paradigm that exploits supervisory signals generated from the data itself, and many recent studies have leveraged SSL to conduct graph anomaly detection. However, we empirically found that three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhong Li , Yuhang Wang , Matthijs van Leeuwen

3D weakly supervised semantic segmentation (3D WSSS) aims to achieve semantic segmentation by leveraging sparse or low-cost annotated data, significantly reducing reliance on dense point-wise annotations. Previous works mainly employ class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaoxu Xu , Xuexun Liu , Jinlong Li , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Nicu Sebe , Xu Wang

Instance segmentation is a fundamental research in computer vision, especially in autonomous driving. However, manual mask annotation for instance segmentation is quite time-consuming and costly. To address this problem, some prior works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guangfeng Jiang , Jun Liu , Yuzhi Wu , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Recent advancements in industrial anomaly detection (AD) have demonstrated that incorporating a small number of anomalous samples during training can significantly enhance accuracy. However, this improvement often comes at the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Hanxi Li , Jingqi Wu , Deyin Liu , Lin Wu , Hao Chen , Mingwen Wang , Chunhua Shen

Anomaly detection (AD) is a fundamental research problem in machine learning and computer vision, with practical applications in industrial inspection, video surveillance, and medical diagnosis. In medical imaging, AD is especially vital…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Jinan Bao , Hanshi Sun , Hanqiu Deng , Yinsheng He , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Xingyu Li

Anomaly detection aims to identify samples that deviate from the nominal data distribution and is central to many safety-critical applications. However, developing effective anomaly detection methods for categorical, mixed-type, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lixing Zhang , Yuchen Liang , Liyan Xie

Visual anomaly detection in real-world industrial settings faces two major limitations. First, most existing methods are trained on purely normal data or on unlabeled datasets assumed to be predominantly normal, presuming the absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Anindya Sundar Das , Monowar Bhuyan

Weakly-Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) and Localization (WSOL), i.e., detecting multiple and single instances with bounding boxes in an image using image-level labels, are long-standing and challenging tasks in the CV community. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Feifei Shao , Long Chen , Jian Shao , Wei Ji , Shaoning Xiao , Lu Ye , Yueting Zhuang , Jun Xiao

Labeling training data is a key bottleneck in the modern machine learning pipeline. Recent weak supervision approaches combine labels from multiple noisy sources by estimating their accuracies without access to ground truth labels; however,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-15 Paroma Varma , Frederic Sala , Ann He , Alexander Ratner , Christopher Ré

Deep learning for detecting objects in remotely sensed imagery can enable new technologies for important applications including mitigating climate change. However, these models often require large datasets labeled with bounding box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Ji Hun Wang , Jeremy Irvin , Beri Kohen Behar , Ha Tran , Raghav Samavedam , Quentin Hsu , Andrew Y. Ng

In this study, a spectral graph-theoretic grouping strategy for weakly supervised classification is introduced, where a limited number of labelled samples and a larger set of unlabelled samples are used to construct a larger annotated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Tameem Adel , Alexander Wong , Daniel Stashuk

Selecting informative data points for expert feedback can significantly improve the performance of anomaly detection (AD) in various contexts, such as medical diagnostics or fraud detection. In this paper, we determine a set of theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Aodong Li , Chen Qiu , Marius Kloft , Padhraic Smyth , Stephan Mandt , Maja Rudolph

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a crucial role in various domains, including cybersecurity, finance, and healthcare, by identifying patterns or events that deviate from normal behaviour. In recent years, significant progress has been made in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hadi Hojjati , Thi Kieu Khanh Ho , Narges Armanfard

Weakly Supervised Monitoring Anomaly Detection (WSMAD) utilizes weak supervision learning to identify anomalies, a critical task for smart city monitoring. However, existing multimodal approaches often fail to meet the real-time and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Wen-Dong Jiang , Chih-Yung Chang , Hsiang-Chuan Chang , Ji-Yuan Chen , Diptendu Sinha Roy

The aim of this paper is to formalise the task of continual semi-supervised anomaly detection (CSAD), with the aim of highlighting the importance of such a problem formulation which assumes as close to real-world conditions as possible.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jack Belham , Aryan Bhosale , Samrat Mukherjee , Biplab Banerjee , Fabio Cuzzolin

Weak signal learning (WSL) is a common challenge in many fields like fault diagnosis, medical imaging, and autonomous driving, where critical information is often masked by noise and interference, making feature identification difficult.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xianqi Liu , Xiangru Li , Lefeng He , Ziyu Fang

Weakly supervised segmentation requires assigning a label to every pixel based on training instances with partial annotations such as image-level tags, object bounding boxes, labeled points and scribbles. This task is challenging, as coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Tsung-Wei Ke , Jyh-Jing Hwang , Stella X. Yu

Identifying anomalous instances in tabular data is essential for improving data reliability and maintaining system stability. Due to the scarcity of ground-truth anomaly labels, existing methods mainly rely on unsupervised anomaly detection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Wei Huang , Yuxuan Xiong , Hezhe Qiao , Yu-Ming Shang , Xiangling Fu , Guansong Pang

The scarcity of data annotated at the desired level of granularity is a recurring issue in many applications. Significant amounts of effort have been devoted to developing weakly supervised methods tailored to each individual setting, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Ke Li , Jitendra Malik