Reconstruction-based methods are a cornerstone of unsupervised image anomaly detection, but they remain vulnerable to \emph{outlier leakage}, where standard mean squared error (MSE) loss drives the model to faithfully reconstruct anomalous patterns. We propose a Non-linear Reconstruction Loss that applies a sigmoid-based squashing function to suppress high-magnitude features, preventing outliers from dominating optimization while preserving sensitivity to normal patterns.
arXiv:2608.29112v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent advances in anomaly detection (AD) for industrial inspection have pushed performance on standard benchmarks toward saturation. However, strong b...
By Dat Cao, Son Nghiem, Phan Nguyen, Jun Rekimoto, Jhih-Ciang Wu
arXiv:2610.07016v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In few-shot industrial anomaly detection, the few normal target images provide no direct defect supervision, making anomaly prompts difficult to lear...
By Mengyang Zhao, Teng Fu, Haiyang Yu, Ke Niu, Bin Li, Xiangyang Xue
arXiv:2610.19540v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automated defect detection of industrial boards must remain highly reliable under cross-scenario variations in lighting, surface contaminants, and prod...
By Dikai Li, Weijia Wang, Yuan-Gen Wang
arXiv:2608.22789v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Additive Manufacturing (AM) plays a vital role in the ongoing industrial revolution. However, quality control remains crucial and challenging due to pr...
By Sosmita Paul, Krishna Roy
The paper introduces ISP-AD, the largest publicly available industrial anomaly detection dataset, featuring both synthetic and real defects from a factory floor. It focuses on challenging, small, weakly contrasted surface defects within highly variable structured patterns, addressing the bias of existing datasets toward ideal imaging conditions. Experiments demonstrate that even a small amount of weakly labeled real defects improves model generalization and that synthetic defects can serve as a useful cold‑start baseline for scalable training.
By Paul J. Krassnig, Dieter P. Gruber
The paper introduces a hybrid one‑class anomaly detector for semiconductor wafer bin maps that combines a patch‑based student‑teacher model (EfficientAD) with a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM). Trained on only 700 normal wafers, the fused system achieves an AUROC of 0.9985 on 18,658 held‑out wafers, reducing misclassifications from 852 (DDPM) and 1,412 (EfficientAD) to 618, with statistically significant improvements. Analysis reveals that the two modules make weakly overlapping errors, and that fixed‑weight fusion captures only 40‑70 % of the potential correction, highlighting the need for sample‑adaptive fusion and imbalance‑aware evaluation.
By Limon Bin Hossain, Md Sadib Rahman Ananta
arXiv:2610.23172v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Zero-shot anomaly detection (ZSAD) aims to detect anomalies in previously unseen classes using auxiliary images, with applications such as industrial v...
By Jiyul Ham, Seongho Yoon, Yonggon Jung, Sangjae Lee, Jun-Geol Baek
The paper introduces TED (Text-Axis Evidence Decomposition), a post‑hoc scoring method that improves anomaly localization in CLIP‑based detectors without altering the backbone or prompts. TED evaluates whether ambiguous responses are better supported by defect patches or normal patches, thereby distinguishing true defects from visually complex normal regions. Experiments show that TED significantly enhances pixel‑level localization across frozen VLM backbones and adapted hosts, especially under hard‑false‑positive competition.
By JinYoung Kim, Geonho Kim, GiJeong Park, Geonu Lee, YoungJoon Yoo
CLIP is a powerful vision-language model, but it was not designed for fine-grained defect localization; CLIP-based anomaly detectors therefore adapt it with prompts or lightweight modules to increase...
arXiv:2610.28560v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Visual anomaly detection aims to detect abnormal objects, while anomaly samples are often scarce during model training. Assembling multiple pretrained...
By Shangquan Sun, Wenjun Luo, Xu He, Yoonsoo Lee, Shijian Lu
Vision foundation models have enabled strong training-free anomaly detection (AD). However, most existing approaches rely primarily on independent local patch features, leaving the global contextual information encoded by Vision Transformers (ViTs) underexploited.