The paper introduces NC‑TFAD, a task‑free continual anomaly detection framework that leverages neural‑collapse geometry to learn from non‑stationary data streams without task boundaries. It freezes a pretrained backbone, aligns streaming features to a simplex Equiangular Tight Frame prototype space, and uses synthetic anomaly anchors, inter‑ and intra‑class regularization, and a Focal Neural Collapse Contrastive loss to stabilize representations and enhance normal‑anomaly separability. A normal‑patch‑prototype‑guided localization branch generates calibrated anomaly heatmaps, and extensive experiments on MVTec AD and VisA demonstrate that NC‑TFAD outperforms existing task‑free continual learning and unified anomaly detection baselines in both image‑level detection and pixel‑level localization.
By Xiaotong Kong, Chaoyang Song, Ziai Zhou, Jinxia Zhang, Kanjian Zhang, Haikun Wei
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
Detecting and localizing defects in 3D point clouds is challenging because abnormal samples are scarce and diverse, while training is often limited to normal data. We propose Anomaly Factory 3D (AF3AD), a modular framework that synthesizes diverse pseudo-anomalies from normal point clouds to expand the training data for unsupervised 3D anomaly detection methods that rely on pseudo-anomalies.
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:2606. 29181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detecting and localizing defects in 3D point clouds is challenging because abnormal samples are scarce and diverse, while training is often limited to normal data.
By Ali Balapour, Faraz Hach
The paper introduces NC‑TFAD, a task‑free continual anomaly detection framework that leverages neural‑collapse geometry to handle non‑stationary data streams in industrial visual inspection. It freezes a pretrained backbone, aligns streaming features to a simplex Equiangular Tight Frame prototype space, and uses synthetic anomaly anchors, inter‑ and intra‑class regularization, and a Focal Neural Collapse Contrastive loss to stabilize representations and enhance normal‑anomaly separability. A normal‑patch‑prototype‑guided localization branch generates calibrated anomaly heatmaps without pixel‑level annotations, and experiments on MVTec AD and VisA demonstrate that NC‑TFAD outperforms existing task‑free continual learning and unified anomaly detection baselines in both image‑level detection and pixel‑level localization.
GRC‑Net is a new unsupervised multimodal anomaly detection framework that uses a global‑attention MLP to enforce consistency across patch embeddings and a stable reconstruction module to reduce noise. By capturing holistic context through a global token, it minimizes discrepancies between original and predicted embeddings, leading to more reliable reconstruction errors. Experiments on MVTec 3D‑AD and Eyecandies show that GRC‑Net outperforms existing methods at both image and pixel levels, with clearer distinctions between normal and anomalous regions.
By Seyoung Jeong, Jong Pil Yun, Sang Jun Lee
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.
By PengYu Chen, Shang Wan, Xiaohou Shi, Yuan Chang, Yan Sun, Sajal K. Das
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:2610.19610v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Industrial anomaly detection (AD) is bottlenecked by the scarcity of anomalous samples, making high-fidelity anomaly synthesis crucial for improving do...
By Haoxiang Rao, Fang Zhao, Zhao Wang, Weijia Li, Chenyang Si, Caifeng Shan
arXiv:2607. 18142v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Industrial Video Anomaly Detection (IVAD) aims to identify anomalous objects and events in an industrial process, which is crucial for modern manufacturing and quality control systems.
By Mei Yuan, Qi Long, Qifeng Wu, Zhenyang Li, Yizhou Zhao, Lei Wang, Yang Liu, Min Xu
arXiv:2609.37314v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Synthetic anomaly generation helps expand industrial anomaly datasets when real defects are scarce or unavailable. Existing approaches lie at two extre...
By Abhay Kumar Das, Rajesh Gangireddy, Ashwin Vaidya, Samet Akcay