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DFR: Deep Feature Reconstruction for Unsupervised Anomaly Segmentation

13 Dec 2020arXiv:2012.07122archive 2025-07-28

Jie Yang, Yong Shi, Zhiquan Qi

Automatic detecting anomalous regions in images of objects or textures without priors of the anomalies is challenging, especially when the anomalies appear in very small areas of the images, making difficult-to-detect visual variations, such as defects on manufacturing products. This paper proposes an effective unsupervised anomaly segmentation approach that can detect and segment out the anomalies in small and confined regions of images. Concretely, we develop a multi-scale regional feature generator that can generate multiple spatial context-aware representations from pre-trained deep convolutional networks for every subregion of an image. The regional representations not only describe the local characteristics of corresponding regions but also encode their multiple spatial context information, making them discriminative and very beneficial for anomaly detection. Leveraging these descriptive regional features, we then design a deep yet efficient convolutional autoencoder and detect anomalous regions within images via fast feature reconstruction. Our method is simple yet effective and efficient. It advances the state-of-the-art performances on several benchmark datasets and shows great potential for real applications.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Anomaly Detection MVTec AD DFR Detection AUROC 93.8 #98 of 148 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection MVTec AD DFR FPS 20 #98 of 148 Archive leaderboard report
Anomaly Detection MVTec AD DFR Segmentation AUROC 95.5 #98 of 148 Archive leaderboard report

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