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Anomaly detection is an important task for complex systems (e.g., industrial facilities, manufacturing, large-scale science experiments), where failures in a sub-system can lead to low yield, faulty products, or even damage to components.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ryan Humble , Zhe Zhang , Finn O'Shea , Eric Darve , Daniel Ratner

Recent vision language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated impressive anomaly detection performance under significant distribution shift by utilizing high-level semantic information through text prompts. However, these models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Nadeem Nazer , Hongkuan Zhou , Lavdim Halilaj , Ylli Sadikaj , Steffen Staab

Industrial image anomaly detection (IAD) is a pivotal topic with huge value. Due to anomaly's nature, real anomalies in a specific modern industrial domain (i.e. domain-specific anomalies) are usually too rare to collect, which severely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Siqi Wang , Yuanze Hu , Xinwang Liu , Siwei Wang , Guangpu Wang , Chuanfu Xu , Jie Liu , Ping Chen

We propose a new setting for detecting unseen objects called Zero-shot Annotation object Detection (ZAD). It expands the zero-shot object detection setting by allowing the novel objects to exist in the training images and restricts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Zhuoming Liu , Xuefeng Hu , Ram Nevatia

Semi-supervised anomaly detection~(SSAD) is a task where normal data and a limited number of anomalous data are available for training. In practical situations, SSAD methods suffer adapting to domain shifts, since anomalous data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Tomoya Nishida , Takashi Endo , Yohei Kawaguchi

In industrial anomaly detection (IAD), accurately identifying defects amidst diverse anomalies and under varying imaging conditions remains a significant challenge. Traditional approaches often struggle with high false-positive rates,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yurui Pan , Lidong Wang , Yuchao Chen , Wenbing Zhu , Bo Peng , Mingmin Chi

Anomaly detection is crucial in industrial product quality inspection. Failing to detect tiny defects often leads to serious consequences. Existing methods face a structure-semantics trade-off: structure-oriented models (such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Naiqi Zhang , Chuancheng Shi , Jingtong Dou , Wenhua Wu , Fei Shen , Jianhua Cao

Few-shot anomaly detection (FSAD) aims to detect unseen anomaly regions with the guidance of very few normal support images from the same class. Existing FSAD methods usually find anomalies by directly designing complex text prompts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Fenfang Tao , Guo-Sen Xie , Fang Zhao , Xiangbo Shu

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a crucial role in many safety-critical application domains. The challenge of adapting an anomaly detector to drift in the normal data distribution, especially when no training data is available for the "new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Aodong Li , Chen Qiu , Marius Kloft , Padhraic Smyth , Maja Rudolph , Stephan Mandt

Detecting trajectory anomalies is a vital task in modern Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), enabling the identification of unsafe, inefficient, or irregular travel behaviours. While deep learning has emerged as the dominant approach,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Rui Xue , Dan He , Fengmei Jin , Chen Zhang , Xiaofang Zhou

Anomaly detection on attributed networks aims at finding nodes whose patterns deviate significantly from the majority of reference nodes, which is pervasive in many applications such as network intrusion detection and social spammer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Haoyi Fan , Fengbin Zhang , Zuoyong Li

Graph anomaly detection (GAD), which aims to identify nodes in a graph that significantly deviate from normal patterns, plays a crucial role in broad application domains. However, existing GAD methods are one-model-for-one-dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chaoxi Niu , Hezhe Qiao , Changlu Chen , Ling Chen , Guansong Pang

Image Anomaly Detection has been a challenging task in Computer Vision field. The advent of Vision-Language models, particularly the rise of CLIP-based frameworks, has opened new avenues for zero-shot anomaly detection. Recent studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Zhaoxiang Zhang , Hanqiu Deng , Jinan Bao , Xingyu Li

Quantum-inspired tensor networks algorithms have shown to be effective and efficient models for machine learning tasks, including anomaly detection. Here, we propose a highly parallelizable quantum-inspired approach which we call SMT-AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Apimuk Sornsaeng , Si Min Chan , Wenxuan Zhang , Swee Liang Wong , Joshua Lim , Dario Poletti

Few-shot anomaly detection (FSAD) has made significant strides, yet existing methods still face critical challenges: (i) dependence on task- or dataset-specific training/fine-tuning, (ii) reliance on language supervision or carefully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guohuan Xie , Xin He , Dingying Fan , Siqi Li , Yun Liu

Detecting anomalies in surveillance footage is inherently challenging due to their unpredictable and context-dependent nature. This work introduces a novel context-aware zero-shot anomaly detection framework that identifies abnormal events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Md. Rashid Shahriar Khan , Md. Abrar Hasan , Mohammod Tareq Aziz Justice

Most existing anomaly detection (AD) methods require a dedicated model for each category. Such a paradigm, despite its promising results, is computationally expensive and inefficient, thereby failing to meet the requirements for realworld…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Chaoqin Huang , Haoyan Guan , Aofan Jiang , Ya Zhang , Michael Spratling , Xinchao Wang , Yanfeng Wang

Visual anomaly detection in multi-class settings poses significant challenges due to the diversity of object categories, the scarcity of anomalous examples, and the presence of camouflaged defects. In this paper, we propose PromptMAD, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Duncan McCain , Hossein Kashiani , Fatemeh Afghah

Deep learning-based industrial anomaly detectors often behave as black boxes, making it hard to justify decisions with physically meaningful defect evidence. We propose ZSG-IAD, a multimodal vision-language framework for zero-shot grounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qiuhui Chen , Jiaxiang Song , Shuai Tan , Weimin Zhong

Time-series anomaly detectors are commonly compared on workstation-class hardware under unconstrained execution. In-vehicle monitoring, however, requires predictable latency and stable behavior under limited CPU parallelism. Accuracy-only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Kadir-Kaan Özer , René Ebeling , Markus Enzweiler