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A Unified Anomaly Synthesis Strategy with Gradient Ascent for Industrial Anomaly Detection and Localization

12 Jul 2024arXiv:2407.09359archive 2025-07-28

Qiyu Chen, Huiyuan Luo, Chengkan Lv, Zhengtao Zhang

Anomaly synthesis strategies can effectively enhance unsupervised anomaly detection. However, existing strategies have limitations in the coverage and controllability of anomaly synthesis, particularly for weak defects that are very similar to normal regions. In this paper, we propose Global and Local Anomaly co-Synthesis Strategy (GLASS), a novel unified framework designed to synthesize a broader coverage of anomalies under the manifold and hypersphere distribution constraints of Global Anomaly Synthesis (GAS) at the feature level and Local Anomaly Synthesis (LAS) at the image level. Our method synthesizes near-in-distribution anomalies in a controllable way using Gaussian noise guided by gradient ascent and truncated projection. GLASS achieves state-of-the-art results on the MVTec AD (detection AUROC of 99.9\%), VisA, and MPDD datasets and excels in weak defect detection. The effectiveness and efficiency have been further validated in industrial applications for woven fabric defect detection. The code and dataset are available at: \url{https://github.com/cqylunlun/GLASS}.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Anomaly Detection MPDD GLASS Detection AUROC 99.6 #1 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection MPDD GLASS Segmentation AUPRO 98.2 #1 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection MPDD GLASS Segmentation AUROC 99.4 #1 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection MVTec AD GLASS Detection AUROC 99.9 #1 of 148 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection MVTec AD GLASS Segmentation AUPRO 96.8 #1 of 148 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection MVTec AD GLASS Segmentation AUROC 99.3 #1 of 148 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection VisA GLASS Detection AUROC 98.8 #8 of 50 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection VisA GLASS Segmentation AUPRO (until 30% FPR) 92.8 #8 of 50 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection VisA GLASS Segmentation AUROC 98.8 #8 of 50 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection WFDD GLASS Detection AUROC 100 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection WFDD GLASS Segmentation AUPRO 94.9 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection WFDD GLASS Segmentation AUROC 98.9 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report

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