SPARC is a few‑shot calibration technique for vision‑based industrial anomaly detectors that corrects deployment‑time nuisances by projecting patch features onto a per‑cell subspace, requiring only up to eight verified‑normal images and no gradient updates. It operates between the encoder and detector, using a closed‑form, spatially indexed estimate based on the encoder’s native patch grid. Across seven detectors on shift‑prone benchmarks, SPARC boosts pooled Image AUROC by 13.8 pp and AU‑PRO₀.₃ by 3.5 pp, while showing modest changes on benchmarks without engineered shift.
arXiv:2606. 07660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adapting foundation models to detect generative artifacts via gradient-based updates compromises their intrinsic representations.
arXiv:2608. 15090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Studies of industrial visual inspection commonly report the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) and the overlap between anomaly maps and defect masks.
arXiv:2606. 24178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained vision models often misclassify inputs that are rotated, scaled, or sheared, even though these affine transformations leave the object class unchanged.
Memory-based anomaly detection is attractive because it localizes defects from normal images without training a decoder or synthesizing pseudo anomalies. However, most memory methods still use the memory bank as a nearest-neighbor lookup table: a test patch is treated as normal if it has one nearby normal anchor.
arXiv:2607. 23924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision foundation models have enabled strong training-free anomaly detection (AD).
arXiv:2606. 01992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial anomaly detection has historically been a unimodal task.
arXiv:2606. 13780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine-learned anomaly detection is reshaping searches for new physics, but it has outrun the statistics used to interpret it.
Unified visual anomaly detection seeks to train a single detector that can be deployed across categories, domains, and application scenarios. In the few-shot transfer regime, the key challenge is to estimate an episode-specific boundary for an unseen target category from a small support set.
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.
The paper introduces a training‑free, human‑in‑the‑loop anomaly detection framework that allows a domain expert to correct a PatchCore detector by editing its memory bank, without retraining or using gradients. Using only ten golden samples, operator corrections close a median 66% of the performance gap to a fully trained bank, improving 12 of 15 MVTec AD categories while harming none. The approach is evaluated with a rigorous held‑out protocol and shows that passive and active querying yield statistically indistinguishable gains, with a defect‑memory extension failing decisively.
arXiv:2605. 30581v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Industrial visual sim-to-real is often described as transferring from synthetic images to real images, but industrial deployment usually involves a broader mismatch between available evidence and required decisions.
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.