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VAN-AD: Visual Masked Autoencoder with Normalizing Flow For Time Series Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2603. 26842v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) is essential for maintaining the reliability and security of IoT-enabled service systems.

arXiv Computer Vision
6d ago

Adapting Visualization Techniques for Time-Series Anomaly Detection: From Convolutional Neural Networks to Convolutional-Recurrent Neural Networks

The paper investigates how to adapt visualization techniques—such as saliency maps and Grad‑CAM—to convolutional‑recurrent neural networks (CNN+RNN) used for time‑series anomaly detection in video data. It combines VGG19 for feature extraction with a GRU for sequential analysis, noting that the TimeDistributed layer complicates gradient propagation and weakens the link between spatial and temporal information, thereby reducing the effectiveness of standard visualization methods. The authors propose adaptations of these techniques to better interpret models that incorporate a temporal dimension, highlighting both the challenges and the potential of extending static‑image interpretation strategies to temporal models.

By Fabien Poirier, Myriam Lamolle
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

See More, Detect Less? Taming Information Leakage in Multi-View Anomaly Detection

The paper identifies a problem in multi‑view anomaly detection called cross‑view information leakage, where fusing multiple inspection views can cause normal features to mask anomalies during reconstruction. To address this, the authors propose GLAD, a framework that uses a Global‑Local Attention Driven approach, combining vision foundation model features with two fusion modules: Multi‑view Merging Attention for local, weighted fusion and Object‑Guided Attention for global context aggregation. Experiments on Real‑IAD and MANTA‑Tiny demonstrate that GLAD outperforms existing methods across various metrics, underscoring the importance of restricting information flow to preserve the reconstruction gap.

By Shang-Fu Chen, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Jhih-Ciang Wu, Wen-Huang Cheng, Kai-Lung Hua
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Adaptive Multi-Granularity Temporal Modeling for Weakly Supervised Video Anomaly Detection

The paper introduces an adaptive temporal modeling framework for weakly supervised video anomaly detection that addresses the limitations of rigid Multiple Instance Learning approaches. It presents a Temporal Refinement Module using dynamic positional encoding and a learnable class token to capture long‑range dependencies, and an Event Segmentation Module that identifies event boundaries via temporal discontinuity analysis to produce discriminative event‑level representations. An adaptive similarity‑based fusion strategy replaces fixed top‑k heuristics, dynamically integrating snippet‑level and event‑level anomaly scores into video‑level predictions, and the method outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines on two benchmarks.

By Changyi Li, Yu Xiao
arXiv AI
Jun 12

ASTER: Latent Pseudo-Anomaly Generation for Unsupervised Time-Series Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2604. 13924v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) is critical in domains such as industrial monitoring, healthcare, and cybersecurity, but it remains challenging due to rare and heterogeneous anomalies and the scarcity of labelled data.

By Romain Hermary, Samet Hicsonmez, Dan Pineau, Abd El Rahman Shabayek, Djamila Aouada
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

PL-SCEA: Reconfiguring Pretrained Attention for Few-Shot Industrial Anomaly Detection

The paper introduces PL‑SCEA, a method that reconfigures the attention mechanism of frozen Vision Foundation Models to better detect and localize anomalies in industrial images with few training examples. PL‑SCEA preserves the semantic context of pretrained query‑key attention while adding token‑adaptive self‑correlations over contextualized value features, then applies positive‑correlation filtering and power‑law reweighting to highlight task‑relevant relationships. The resulting features are fed into a lightweight variational autoencoder to produce reconstruction‑based anomaly scores, achieving competitive image‑level detection and strong pixel‑level localization on MVTec AD and VisA datasets.

By Xiaoyu Yang, Qixing Wu, Huixian Zhao, Changlong Jin
arXiv AI
Jul 13

Event Stream based Multi-Modal Video Anomaly Detection: A Benchmark Dataset and Algorithms

arXiv:2607. 09114v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video anomaly detection (VAD) is critical for automated surveillance but remains fragile under challenging conditions such as illumination variations, fast motion, and complex backgrounds when relying solely on visible light videos.

By Peipei Zhu, Yueqing Niu, Lin Zhu, Guanchong Niu, Yang Yu, Zheng Li
arXiv AI
Jul 2

PaAno: Patch-Based Representation Learning for Time-Series Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2602. 01359v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although recent studies on time-series anomaly detection have increasingly adopted ever-larger neural network architectures such as transformers and foundation models, they incur high computational costs and memory usage, making them impractical for real-time and resource-constrained scenarios.

By Jinju Park, Seokho Kang
arXiv AI
Sep 3

Fine-Grained Anomaly Perception in Wild UGC-Enhanced Images: A Comprehensive Dataset and Difference-Fusion Framework

The paper introduces a new task called Quality Anomaly Perception for UGC Image Enhancement (UEAP) and presents the first benchmark dataset, UEAP-4k, featuring fine‑grained annotations of anomaly categories, locations, and severity levels in real‑world user‑generated content. It proposes the Difference‑Fusion Anomaly Perception Method (DFAP‑UGC), which fuses explicit differences between enhanced images and their references using dense spatial querying, regional verification, and quality‑aware ranking to robustly identify localized anomalies. A Locality‑Aware Dynamic Task Prioritization (LADTP) training strategy is also introduced to enable efficient end‑to‑end learning without multi‑stage overhead, and experiments demonstrate that DFAP‑UGC outperforms adapted classical baselines.

By Yan Zhong, Gefei Chen, Qiufang Ma, Zhen Wang, Zhiwei Fan, Lei Shi, Tingting Jiang