3. Anomaly Detection & One-Class Novelty Detection
Catalogues 70+ papers on anomaly detection and one-class novelty detection, organised by methodological family.
What this file does
Catalogues 70+ papers on anomaly detection and one-class novelty detection, organised by methodological family.
When to use it
- Surveying the literature for a research project on anomaly detection
- Finding key references for density-based, reconstruction-based, or classification-based methods
- Building a related-work section for a paper or thesis on OOD detection
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3. Anomaly Detection & One-Class Novelty Detection
- 3.1 Density-based Methods
- 3.2 Reconstruction-based Methods
- 3.3 Classification-based Methods
- 3.4 Distance-based Methods
- 3.5 Gradient-based Methods
- 3.6 Discussion and Theoretical Analysis
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3.1 Density-based Methods
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3.1.1 Classic Density Estimation
[TPAMI-1998] Parametric model fitting: from inlier characterization to outlier detection <br> Authors: Gaudenz Danuser, M. Stricker <br> Institution: Marine Biological Laboratory; Analytical, and Mathematical Services
[JESP-2018] Detecting multivariate outliers: Use a robust variant of the mahalanobis distance <br> Authors: Christophe Leys, Olivier Klein, Yves Dominicy <br> Institution: University libre de Bruxelles; Ghent University
[ICML-2000] Anomaly detection over noisy data using learned probability distributions <br> Authors: Eskin Eleazar <br> Institution: Columbia University
[ISI-2016] Poisson factorization for peer-based anomaly detection <br> Authors: Melissa Turcotte, Juston Moore, Nick Heard, Aaron McPhall <br> Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory; University of Bristol
[JASA-1991] Review papers: Recent developments in non-parametric density estimation <br> Authors: Alan Julian Izenman <br> Institution: Temple University
[TKDE-2018] Anomaly detection using local kernel density estimation and context-based regression <br> Authors: Weiming Hu, Jun Gao, Bing Li, Ou Wu, Junping Du, Stephen Maybank <br> Institution: Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Tianjin University; Birkbeck College
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3.1.2 NN-based Density Est.
[ICLR-2018] Deep autoencoding gaussian mixture model for Deep autoencoding gaussian mixture model for unsupervised anomaly detection <br> Authors: Bo Zong, Qi Song, Martin Renqiang Min, Wei Cheng, Cristian Lumezanu, Daeki Cho, Haifeng Chen <br> Institution: Washington State University; NEC Laboratories America
[CVPR-2019] Latent Space Autoregression for Novelty Detection <br> Authors: Davide Abati, Angelo Porrello, Simone Calderara, Rita Cucchiara <br> Institution: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
[NeurIPS-2018] Generative probabilistic novelty detection with adversarial autoencoders <br> Authors: Stanislav Pidhorskyi, Ranya Almohsen, Donald A Adjeroh, Gianfranco Doretto <br> Institution: West Virginia University
[ECMLPKDD-2018] Image anomaly detection with generative adversarial networks <br> Authors: Lucas Deecke, Robert VandermeulenLukas, RuffStephan Mandt, Marius Kloft <br> Institution: University of EdinburghEdinburghScotland; TU Kaiserslautern; Hasso Plattner Institute; University of California
[ICML-2015] Variational inference with normalizing flows <br> Authors: Danilo Rezende, Shakir Mohamed <br> Institution: Google DeepMind
[TPAMI-2020] Normalizing flows: An introduction and review of current methods <br> Authors: Ivan Kobyzev, Simon J.D. Prince, Marcus A. Brubaker <br> Institution: Borealis AI
[CVPR-2021] Cutpaste: Self-supervised learning for anomaly detection and localization <br> Authors: Chun-Liang Li, Kihyuk Sohn, Jinsung Yoon, Tomas Pfister <br> Institution: Google Cloud AI Research
[CVPR-2021] Multiresolution knowledge distillation for anomaly detection <br> Authors: Mohammadreza Salehi, Niousha Sadjadi, Soroosh Baselizadeh, Mohammad H. Rohban, Hamid R. Rabiee <br> Institution: Sharif University of Technology
[NeurIPS-2018] A loss framework for calibrated anomaly detection <br> Authors: Aditya Krishna Menon, Robert C. Williamson <br> Institution: Australian National University
[CVPR-2021] Multiattentional deepfake detection <br> Authors: Hanqing Zhao, Wenbo Zhou, Dongdong Chen, Tianyi Wei, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu <br> Institution: University of Science and Technology of China; Microsoft Cloud AI
[AAAI-2020] Ml-loo:Detecting adversarial examples with feature attribution <br> Authors: Puyudi Yang, Jianbo Chen, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Jane-Ling Wang, Michael Jordan <br> Institution: University of California
[CIKM-2020] Towards generalizable deepfake detection with locality-aware autoencoder <br> Authors: Mengnan Du, Shiva Pentyala, Yuening Li, Xia Hu <br> Institution: Texas A&M University
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3.1.3 Energy-based Models
[ICML-2016] Deep structured energy based models for anomaly detection <br> Authors: Shuangfei Zhai, Yu Cheng, Weining Lu, Zhongfei Zhang <br> Institution: Binghamton Univeristy; IBM T. J. Watson Research Center; Tsinghua University
[2005] Estimation of non-normalized statistical models by score matching <br> Authors: Aapo Hyv¡§arinen <br> Institution: BHelsinki Institute for Information Technology
[ICML-2011] Bayesian learning via stochastic gradient langevin dynamics <br> Authors: Max Welling, Yee Whye Teh <br> Institution: University of California; UCL
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3.1.4 Frequency-based Models
[CVPR-2020] High-frequency component helps explain the generalization of convolutional neural networks <br> Authors: Haohan Wang, Xindi Wu, Zeyi Huang, Eric P. Xing <br> Institution: UCarnegie Mellon University
[CNeurIPS-2019] Adversarial examples are not bugs, they are features <br> Authors: Andrew Ilyas, Shibani Santurkar, Dimitris Tsipras, Logan Engstrom, Brandon Tran, Aleksander Madry <br> Institution: MIT
[ICCV-2021] Amplitudephase recombination: Rethinking robustness of convolutional neural networks in frequency domain <br> Authors: Guangyao Chen, Peixi Peng, Li Ma, Jia Li, Lin Du, Yonghong Tian <br> Institution: Peking University; Beihang University; AI Application Research Center Huawei
[CVPR-2021] Spatial-phase shallow learning: rethinking face forgery detection in frequency domain <br> Authors: Honggu Liu, Xiaodan Li, Wenbo Zhou, Yuefeng Chen, Yuan He, Hui Xue, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu <br> Institution: University of Science and Technology of China; Alibaba Group
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3.2 Reconstruction-based Methods
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3.2.1 Sparse Representation
[J. Signal Process. Syst.-2015] Sparse coding with anomaly detection. <br> Authors: Amir Adler, Michael Elad, Yacov Hel-Or, Ehud Rivlin <br> Institution: Technion
[Multimedia Tools and Applications-2017] Anomaly detection using sparse reconstruction in crowded scenes. <br> Authors: Ang Li, Zhenjiang Miao, Yigang Cen, Yi Cen <br> Institution: Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing Key Laboratory, Minzu University of China
[IEEE-2014] Adaptive Sparse Representations for Video Anomaly Detection. <br> Authors: Xuan Mo, Vishal Monga, Raja Bala, Zhigang Fan <br> Institution: Pennsylvania State University
[Pattern Recognition-2013] AticleL1 norm based kpca for novelty detection. <br> Authors: Yingchao Xiao, Huangang Wanga, Wenli Xu, Junwu Zhou <br> Institution: Tsinghua University, Beijing General Research Institute of Mining & Metallurgy
[AAAI-2021] Lren: Low-rank embedded network for sample-free hyperspectral anomaly detection. <br> Authors: Kai Jiang, Weiying Xie, Jie Lei, Tao Jiang, Yunsong Li <br> Institution: Xidian University
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3.2.2 Reconstruction-Error Methods
[NeurIPS-2018] Generative probabilistic novelty detection with adversarial autoencoders. <br> Authors: Stanislav Pidhorskyi, Ranya Almohsen, Donald A Adjeroh, Gianfranco Doretto <br> Institution: West Virginia University
[Wireless Telecommunications Symposium-2018] Autoencoderbased network anomaly detection. <br> Authors: Zhaomin Chen, Chai Kiat Yeo, Bu Sung Lee, Chiew Tong Lau <br> Institution: Nanyang Technological University
[Special Lecture on IE-2015] Variational autoencoder based anomaly detection using reconstruction probability. <br> Authors: J. An and S. Cho <br> Institution: cannot open
[ICLR-W-2018] Efficient GAN-Based Anomaly Detection. <br> Authors: Houssam Zenati, Chuan Sheng Foo, Bruno Lecouat, Gaurav Manek, Vijay Ramaseshan Chandrasekhar <br> Institution: CentraleSup¡äelec, Nanyang Technological University, Carnegie Mellon University, Institute for Infocomm Research
[CVPR-2018] Future frame prediction for anomaly detection¨Ca new baseline. <br> Authors: Wen Liu, Weixin Luo, Dongze Lian, Shenghua Gao <br> Institution: ShanghaiTech University
[CVPR-2019] Memorizing normality to detect anomaly: Memory-augmented deep autoencoder for unsupervised anomaly detection. <br> Authors: Dong Gong, Lingqiao Liu, Vuong Le, Budhaditya Saha, Moussa Reda Mansour, Svetha Venkatesh, Anton van den Hengel <br> Institution: University of Adelaide, Deakin University, University of Western Australia
[CVPR-2020] Learning Memory Guided Normality for Anomaly Detection. <br> Authors: Kevin Stephen, Varun Menon <br> Institution: Department of Information Technology, Pune Institute of Computer Technology, New York University
[ICLR-2020] Robust subspace recovery layer for unsupervised anomaly detection. <br> Authors: Chieh-Hsin Lai, Dongmian Zou, Gilad Lerman <br> Institution: School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
[AAAI-2021] Learning semantic context from normal samples for unsupervised anomaly detection. <br> Authors: Xudong Yan, Huaidong Zhang, Xuemiao Xu1, Xiaowei Hu, Pheng-Ann Heng <br> Institution: South China University of Technology, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Big Data and Intelligent Robot, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Computational Intelligence and Cyberspace Information
[ICML-2019] Anomaly detection with multiple-hypotheses predictions. <br> Authors: Duc Tam Nguyen, Zhongyu Lou, Michael Klar, Thomas Brox <br> Institution: University of Freiburg, Germany Corporate Research
[AAAI-2019] Learning competitive and discriminative reconstructions for anomaly detection. <br> Authors: Kai Tian, Shuigeng Zhou, Jianping Fan, Jihong Guan <br> Institution: Fudan University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Tongji University
[CVPR-2018] Adversarially learned one-class classifier for novelty detection. <br> Authors: Mohammad Sabokrou, Mohammad Khalooei, Mahmood Fathy, Ehsan Adeli <br> Institution: Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Amirkabir University of Technology, Stanford University
[IEEE/CVF-2019] Ocgan: One-class novelty detection using gans with constrained latent representations. <br> Authors: Pramuditha Perera, Ramesh Nallapati, Bing Xiang <br> Institution: Johns Hopkins University, AWS AI
[ECCV-2020] Encoding structure-texture relation with p-net for anomaly detection in retinal images. <br> Authors: Kang Zhou, Yuting Xiao, Jianlong Yang, Jun Cheng, Wen Liu, Weixin Luo, Zaiwang Gu, Jiang Liu, Shenghua Gao <br> Institution: ShanghaiTech University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Southern University, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Vision and Imaging
[arXiv preprint arXiv-2020] Gan ensemble for anomaly detection. <br> Authors: Xu Han, Xiaohui Chen, Li-Ping Liu <br> Institution: Tufts University
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3.1 Classification-based Methods
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3.3.1 One-Class Classification
[Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research-2002] One-class classification: Concept learning in the absence of counter-examples. <br> Authors: Tax, David Martinus Johannes <br> Institution: TU Delft
[ICML-2018] Deep one-class classification <br> Authors: Ruff, Lukas and Vandermeulen, Robert and Goernitz, Nico and Deecke, Lucas and Siddiqui, Shoaib Ahmed and Binder, Alexander and Muller, Emmanuel and Kloft, Marius <br> Institution: Humboldt University of Berlin; Hasso Plattner Institute; TU Kaiserslautern; TU Berlin; University of Edinburgh; Singapore University of Technology and Design
[CVPR-2021] PANDA: Adapting Pretrained Features for Anomaly Detection and Segmentation <br> Authors: Reiss, Tal and Cohen, Niv and Bergman, Liron and Hoshen, Yedid <br> Institution: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
[CVPR-2019] Gods: Generalized one-class discriminative subspaces for anomaly detection <br> Authors: Wang, Jue and Cherian, Anoop <br> Institution: Australian National University; Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
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3.3.2 Positive-Unlabeled Learning
[Machine Learning-2020] Learning from positive and unlabeled data: A survey <br> Authors: Bekker, Jessa and Davis, Jesse <br> Institution: KU Leuven
[International Symposiums on Information Processing-2008] Learning from positive and unlabeled examples: A survey <br> Authors: Zhang, Bangzuo and Zuo, Wanli <br> Institution: Jilin University; Northeast Normal University
[International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications-2019] Positive and unlabeled learning algorithms and applications: A survey <br> Authors: Jaskie, Kristen and Spanias, Andreas <br> Institution: Arizona State University
[IJCAI-2003] Learning to classify texts using positive and unlabeled data <br> Authors: Li, Xiaoli and Liu, Bing <br> Institution: National University of Singapore; University of Illinois at Chicago
[Bioinformatics-2006] PSoL: a positive sample only learning algorithm for finding non-coding RNA genes <br> Authors: Wang, Chunlin and Ding, Chris and Meraz, Richard F and Holbrook, Stephen R <br> Institution: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
[ICONIP-2012] Learning from positive and unlabelled examples using maximum margin clustering <br> Authors: Chaudhari, Sneha and Shevade, Shirish <br> Institution: IBM Research; Indian Institute of Science
[Journal of Computers-2009] Reliable Negative Extracting Based on kNN for Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Examples. <br> Authors: Zhang, Bangzuo and Zuo, Wanli <br> Institution: Jilin University; Northeast Normal University
[Journal of Information Science and Engineering-2014] Clustering-based Method for Positive and Unlabeled Text Categorization Enhanced by Improved TFIDF. <br> Authors: Liu, Lu and Peng, Tao <br> Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana; Jilin University
[arXiv-2018] Instance-dependent pu learning by bayesian optimal relabeling <br> Authors: He, Fengxiang and Liu, Tongliang and Webb, Geoffrey I and Tao, Dacheng <br> Institution: University of Sydney
[AAAI-2019] Learning competitive and discriminative reconstructions for anomaly detection <br> Authors: Tian, Kai and Zhou, Shuigeng and Fan, Jianping and Guan, Jihong <br> Institution: Fudan University; University of North Carolina; Tongji University
[CVPR-2019] Graph convolutional label noise cleaner: Train a plug-and-play action classifier for anomaly detection <br> Authors: Zhong, Jia-Xing and Li, Nannan and Kong, Weijie and Liu, Shan and Li, Thomas H and Li, Ge <br> Institution: Peking University
[ICML-2015] Learning from corrupted binary labels via class-probability estimation <br> Authors: Menon, Aditya and Van Rooyen, Brendan and Ong, Cheng Soon and Williamson, Bob <br> Institution: National ICT Australia; The Australian National University
[Artificial Intelligence and Statistics-2015] A rate of convergence for mixture proportion estimation, with application to learning from noisy labels <br> Authors: Scott, Clayton <br> Institution: University of Michigan
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3.3.3 Self-Supervised Learning
[ICDM-2008] Isolation forest <br> Authors: Liu, Fei Tony and Ting, Kai Ming and Zhou, Zhi-Hua <br> Institution: Monash University; Nanjing University
[NeurIPS-2018] Deep anomaly detection using geometric transformations <br> Authors: Golan, Izhak and El-Yaniv, Ran <br> Institution: Israel Institute of Technology
[ICLR-2020] Classification-based anomaly detection for general data <br> Authors: Bergman, Liron and Hoshen, Yedid <br> Institution: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
[NeurIPS-2020] Csi: Novelty detection via contrastive learning on distributionally shifted instances <br> Authors: Tack, Jihoon and Mo, Sangwoo and Jeong, Jongheon and Shin, Jinwoo <br> Institution: KAIST
[CVPR-2021] Anomaly detection in video via self-supervised and multi-task learning <br> Authors: Georgescu, Mariana-Iuliana and Barbalau, Antonio and Ionescu, Radu Tudor and Khan, Fahad Shahbaz and Popescu, Marius and Shah, Mubarak <br> Institution: University of Bucharest; Abu Dhabi; SecurifAI; University of Central Florida
[CVPR-2019] Object-centric auto-encoders and dummy anomalies for abnormal event detection in video <br> Authors: Ionescu, Radu Tudor and Khan, Fahad Shahbaz and Georgescu, Mariana-Iuliana and Shao, Ling <br> Institution: IIAI; University of Bucharest; SecurifAI
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3.4 Distance-based Methods
[PHM Society European Conference, 2014] Anomaly detection using self-organizing maps-based k-nearest neighbor algorithm <br> Authors: J. Tian, M. H. Azarian, and M. Pecht <br> Institution: Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, U.S.A.
[GI/ITG Workshop MMBnet, pp. 13¨C14, 2007] Traffic anomaly detection using k-means clustering <br> Authors: G. Munz, S. Li, and G. Carle <br> Institution: Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science; University of Tuebingen, Germany
[International conference on networked digital technologies, pp. 135¨C145, Springer,2012] Unsupervised clustering approach for network anomaly detection <br> Authors: I. Syarif, A. Prugel-Bennett, and G. Wills <br> Institution: School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK; Eletronics Engineering Polytechnics Institute of Surabaya, Indonesia
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3.5 Gradient-based Methods
[ECCV-2020] Back-propagated gradient representations for anomaly detection <br> Authors: G. Kwon, M. Prabhushankar, D. Temel, and G. AlRegib <br> Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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3.6 Discussion and Theoretical Analysis
[ICML-2018] Open category detection with pac guarantees <br> Authors: S. Liu, R. Garrepalli, T. Dietterich, A. Fern, and D. Hendrycks <br> Institution: Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Oregn, USA School of EECS, Oregon State University, Oregon, USA University of California, Berkeley, California USA
[ICML-2021] Learning bounds for open-set learning <br> Authors: Z. Fang, J. Lu, A. Liu, F. Liu, and G. Zhang <br> Institution: AAII, University of Technology Sydney.
What's inside
6 top-level sections (density, reconstruction, classification, distance, gradient, discussion) with 10 subsections, each listing papers with title, authors, venue, and link.
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- Grouping papers by methodological approach (density, reconstruction, classification) makes the survey navigable
- Including both classic and recent works (1991, 2021) shows the evolution of the field
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