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We study several methods for detecting anomalies in color images, constructed on patch-based auto-encoders. Wecompare the performance of three types of methods based, first, on the error between the original image and its…

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The primary objective of Continual Anomaly Detection (CAD) is to learn the normal patterns of new tasks under dynamic data distribution assumptions while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Existing embedding-based CAD approaches…

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In line with the development of Industry 4.0, surface defect detection/anomaly detection becomes a topical subject in the industry field. Improving efficiency as well as saving labor costs has steadily become a matter of great concern in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yajie Cui , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian

Industrial anomaly detection is crucial for quality control and predictive maintenance, but it presents challenges due to limited training data, diverse anomaly types, and external factors that alter object appearances. Existing methods…

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Within (semi-)automated visual industrial inspection, learning-based approaches for assessing visual defects, including deep neural networks, enable the processing of otherwise small defect patterns in pixel size on high-resolution imagery.…

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Die casting plays a crucial role across various industries due to its ability to craft intricate shapes with high precision and smooth surfaces. However, surface defects remain a major issue that impedes die casting quality control.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Boxiang Zhang , Baijian Yang , Xiaoming Wang , Corey Vian

Instance-level image retrieval aims to find images containing the same object as a given query, despite variations in size, position, or appearance. To address this challenging task, we propose Patchify, a simple yet effective patch-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wonseok Choi , Sohwi Lim , Nam Hyeon-Woo , Moon Ye-Bin , Dong-Ju Jeong , Jinyoung Hwang , Tae-Hyun Oh

Anomaly detection and localization in automated industrial manufacturing can significantly enhance production efficiency and product quality. Existing methods are capable of detecting surface defects in pre-defined or controlled imaging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jiawen Yu , Jieji Ren , Yang Chang , Qiaojun Yu , Xuan Tong , Boyang Wang , Yan Song , You Li , Xinji Mai , Wenqiang Zhang

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

Anomaly detection is crucial to the advanced identification of product defects such as incorrect parts, misaligned components, and damages in industrial manufacturing. Due to the rare observations and unknown types of defects, anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Jeeho Hyun , Sangyun Kim , Giyoung Jeon , Seung Hwan Kim , Kyunghoon Bae , Byung Jun Kang

The use of deep features coming from pre-trained neural networks for unsupervised anomaly detection purposes has recently gathered momentum in the computer vision field. In particular, industrial inspection applications can take advantage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Pierre Gutierrez , Antoine Cordier , Thaïs Caldeira , Théophile Sautory

With the massive data challenges nowadays and the rapid growing of technology, stream mining has recently received considerable attention. To address the large number of scenarios in which this phenomenon manifests itself suitable tools are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Jorge Luis Rivero Perez , Bernardete Ribeiro , Carlos Morell Perez

Detecting subtle visual anomalies in images remains challenging, particularly when only normal samples are available a priori. Such unsupervised anomaly detection is typically solved by measuring feature similarity of a query patch to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jungwook Seo , Minjeong Kim , Younkwan Lee , Seungho Shin , Sungyong Baik

In industrial vision, the anomaly detection problem can be addressed with an autoencoder trained to map an arbitrary image, i.e. with or without any defect, to a clean image, i.e. without any defect. In this approach, anomaly detection…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Anne-Sophie Collin , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

In the contemporary digital landscape, the continuous generation of extensive streaming data across diverse domains has become pervasive. Yet, a significant portion of this data remains unlabeled, posing a challenge in identifying…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jin Li , Kleanthis Malialis , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

Max pooling is the de facto standard for converting anomaly score maps into image-level decisions in memory-bank-based unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD). However, because it relies on a single extreme response, it discards most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joongwon Chae , Lihui Luo , Yang Liu , Runming Wang , Dongmei Yu , Zeming Liang , Xi Yuan , Dayan Zhang , Zhenglin Chen , Peiwu Qin , Ilmoon Chae

Image anomaly detection consists in detecting images or image portions that are visually different from the majority of the samples in a dataset. The task is of practical importance for various real-life applications like biomedical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Axel De Nardin , Pankaj Mishra , Gian Luca Foresti , Claudio Piciarelli

In this paper, we consider unsupervised partitioning problems, such as clustering, image segmentation, video segmentation and other change-point detection problems. We focus on partitioning problems based explicitly or implicitly on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-07 Rémi Lajugie , Sylvain Arlot , Francis Bach

Industrial visual anomaly detection (VAD) methods are typically trained on normal samples only, yet performance improves substantially when even limited anomalous data is available. Existing anomaly generation approaches either require real…

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

Image anomaly detection and localization perform not only image-level anomaly classification but also locate pixel-level anomaly regions. Recently, it has received much research attention due to its wide application in various fields. This…

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