arXiv:2604. 06435v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) is a critical task for many applications including industrial inspection and healthcare.
By Manuel Barusco, Francesco Borsatti, David Petrovic, Davide Dalle Pezze, Gian Antonio Susto
In modern high-throughput industrial production lines, product configurations and visual characteristics frequently change, making it impractical to collect and annotate data for every new scenario. This dynamic setting makes Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection (ZSAD) particularly suitable, as it enables defect detection without requiring training on target-specific samples.
arXiv:2608. 15277v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Greedy sampling produces a compact yet representative summary of normal data, which is essential for reliable anomaly detection that relies on measuring distance from normality.
By Yoon Gyo Jung, Jaewoo Park, Kuan-Chuan Peng, Seongdeok Bang, Octavia Camps
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
arXiv:2607. 18289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual anomaly detection (CAD) studies how models can adapt to evolving data distributions while retaining performance on previously observed regimes.
By Kamil Faber, Mateusz Smendowski, Roberto Corizzo
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.