arXiv Machine Learning

Contrastive Knowledge Distillation for Anomaly Detection in Multi-Illumination/Focus Display Images

The paper introduces a contrastive learning approach for anomaly detection in multi-illumination and multi-focus display images. It builds on Multiresolution Knowledge Distillation (MKD) and proposes Multiresolution Contrastive Distillation (MCD), which eliminates the need for explicit positive/negative pairs by adjusting distances between teacher and student features. A blending module aggregates multi-channel data into a three‑channel input, and the method achieves superior AUROC and accuracy on the MMdAD dataset compared to state‑of‑the‑art baselines.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

Visual Prompting Meets Feature Reconstruction-Based Anomaly Detection with Dual-Teacher Supervision

arXiv:2606. 09670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Anomaly Detection methods achieve perfect detection and segmentation scores on well-established datasets, such as MVTec.

By Mateo Diaz-Bone, Daniel Caraballo, Florian Scheidegger, Thomas Frick, Mattia Rigotti, Andrea Bartezzaghi, Roy Assaf, Niccolo Avogaro, Yagmur G. Cinar, Brown Ebouky, Filip M. Janicki, Piotr S. Kluska, Cezary Skura, Cristiano Malossi
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 8

Visual Prompting Meets Feature Reconstruction-Based Anomaly Detection with Dual-Teacher Supervision

Recent Anomaly Detection methods achieve perfect detection and segmentation scores on well-established datasets, such as MVTec. However, many of these methods face challenges when foundational assumptions - such as consistent object scale, viewpoint, background, illumination, and centered placement - are violated.

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 13

CFR-Net:Collaborative Feature Refnement Network for Medical Image Anomaly Detection

Medical image anomaly detection remains challenging because networks pretrained on natural images often exhibit limited adaptability to medical images, where abnormal patterns appear as fine-grained local shifts, multi-scale contextual mismatches, and orientation-sensitive structural deviations. To address this, we propose the Collaborative Feature Refinement Network (CFR-Net), which combines shared teacher-student feature refinement before decoding with cross-space consistency after decoding.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

Industrial Anomaly Detection via Defect-Grounded Reasoning in Visual Latent Space

The paper introduces Anomaly‑LR, a defect‑grounded latent reasoning framework for industrial anomaly detection that builds a global understanding of an image and then refines anomaly‑relevant representations directly in visual latent space. It also presents IAD‑LR‑22K, a new instruction dataset with 22,228 image‑question pairs and detailed annotations. Experiments demonstrate that Anomaly‑LR outperforms comparable‑scale methods on multiple IAD benchmarks without needing external references or tools.

By Jaron Yeh, Yen-Wei Chang, Jiang Liu, Shao-Yuan Lo
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

DPA: Decoupling Product-Agnostic Anomaly Representations for Zero-shot Anomaly Generation

The paper introduces DPA, a diffusion-based framework that decouples product-agnostic anomaly representations to enable zero-shot anomaly generation. By reusing real anomalies from existing source products and filtering them for plausibility, DPA learns product-irrelevant anomaly embeddings that can be transferred across products. An adaptive mask-guided pipeline and a training-free labeling module further refine the realism and localization of generated anomalies, leading to improved performance on MVTec-AD, VisA, and a new anomaly-transfer benchmark.

By Hang Yao, Yansheng Fu, Ming Liu, Zifei Yan, Yanli Ji, Hongzhi Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Training-Free Logical and Structural Anomaly Detection via Calibrated Fusion

The paper introduces a training‑free anomaly detector that simultaneously handles structural and logical defects by calibrating heterogeneous anomaly cues with statistics from normal images. This calibration aligns frozen representations, allowing their fusion without extra training or part‑level supervision. The resulting method achieves state‑of‑the‑art AUROC scores on MVTec‑LOCO and remains competitive on MVTec‑AD.

By Changyi Li, Miao Yu, Kai Dong, Yu Xiao
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

CLIP-RD: Relational Distillation for Efficient CLIP Knowledge Distillation

CLIP-RD introduces a relational distillation framework for efficient CLIP knowledge distillation, featuring Vertical Relational Distillation (VRD) and Cross Relational Distillation (XRD). VRD aligns intra‑modal similarity distributions between teacher and student, while XRD aligns cross‑modal similarity distributions to enforce bidirectional symmetry. This joint modeling of multidirectional relational structures improves the student’s embedding geometry, yielding a 1.8%p performance gain over CLIP‑KD across various architectures, tasks, and corruption settings with minimal training‑time overhead.

By Jeannie Chung, Hanna Jang, Ingyeong Yang, Uiwon Hwang, Jaehyeong Sim
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