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arXiv:2608. 10941v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial time-series signals, such as turbine temperature and rotational speed in aero-engines, are essential for monitoring the health and operational status of complex dynamical systems.
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.
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...
arXiv:2606. 11605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting process-property relationships in manufacturing is often challenged by high experimental costs and the limited interpretability of complex 'black-box' models.
This survey reviews industrial anomaly synthesis (IAS), a field that has been underrepresented in prior studies focused on anomaly detection. It categorizes IAS methods into four paradigms—hand‑crafted, distribution‑hypothesis, generative model, and vision‑language model—while presenting a taxonomy that facilitates systematic comparison. The paper also discusses datasets, benchmarks, evaluation metrics, multimodal advances, and practical deployment considerations, offering guidance for future research.
arXiv:2607. 00720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the increasing sophistication of industrial AI systems, the ability to reliably detect subtle and noisy anomalies in complex time series data remains a critical yet unresolved challenge.