Noise-to-Norm Reconstruction for Industrial Anomaly Detection and Localization

Anomaly detection has a wide range of applications and is especially important in industrial quality inspection. Currently, many top-performing anomaly detection models rely on feature embedding-based methods. However, these methods do not perform well on datasets with large variations in object loc...

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Main Authors: Shiqi Deng, Zhiyu Sun, Ruiyan Zhuang, Jun Gong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-11-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/22/12436
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Summary:Anomaly detection has a wide range of applications and is especially important in industrial quality inspection. Currently, many top-performing anomaly detection models rely on feature embedding-based methods. However, these methods do not perform well on datasets with large variations in object locations. Reconstruction-based methods use reconstruction errors to detect anomalies without considering positional differences between samples. In this study, a reconstruction-based method using the noise-to-norm paradigm is proposed, which avoids the invariant reconstruction of anomalous regions. Our reconstruction network is based on M-net and incorporates multiscale fusion and residual attention modules to enable end-to-end anomaly detection and localization. Experiments demonstrate that the method is effective in reconstructing anomalous regions into normal patterns and achieving accurate anomaly detection and localization. On the MPDD and VisA datasets, our proposed method achieved more competitive results than the latest methods, and it set a new state-of-the-art standard on the MPDD dataset.
ISSN:2076-3417