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Anomaly Classification
33 papers with code · 5 benchmarks · 9 datasets archive 2025-07-28
Anomaly Classification is the task of identifying and categorizing different types of anomalies in visual data, rather than simply detecting whether an input is normal or anomalous. Unlike anomaly detection, which is typically a binary classification (normal vs. anomaly), anomaly classification requires distinguishing between multiple anomaly classes—each representing a distinct type of anomaly or irregularity. This task is critical in real-world applications such as industrial inspection, where different anomalies may require different responses or interventions.
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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
5 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 5 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.
| Dataset | Best model (first row in archive order) | Paper | Code | Syntology | Compare |
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| GoodsAD (11 rows) | PatchCore-100% | Towards Total Recall in Industrial Anomaly Detection | code | Syntology ran 5 of 36 samples · 31 unverified | Compare |
| MVTecAD (2 rows) | VELM | Detect, Classify, Act: Categorizing Industrial Anomalies with... | code | — | Compare |
| MVTec-AC (1 row) | VELM | Detect, Classify, Act: Categorizing Industrial Anomalies with... | code | — | Compare |
| VisA (1 row) | APRIL-GAN | APRIL-GAN: A Zero-/Few-Shot Anomaly Classification and... | code | Syntology ran 4 of 10 samples · 6 unverified | Compare |
| VisA-AC (1 row) | VELM | Detect, Classify, Act: Categorizing Industrial Anomalies with... | code | — | Compare |
Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.
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Datasets archive 2025-07-28
9 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.
Subtasks archive 2025-07-28
1 subtask in the archive's task tree.
Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28
Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28
30 shown of 33 papers with code (72 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.
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15 Jun 2021 18 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 36 samples · 31 unverifiedBeing able to spot defective parts is a critical component in large-scale industrial manufacturing.
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26 Jan 2022 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 14 of 18 samples · 4 unverified · 15 pointer-only (licence)Knowledge distillation (KD) achieves promising results on the challenging problem of unsupervised anomaly detection (AD).
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5 May 2020 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverifiedNearest neighbor (kNN) methods utilizing deep pre-trained features exhibit very strong anomaly detection performance when applied to entire images.
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26 Mar 2023 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 12 samples · 7 unverifiedVisual anomaly classification and segmentation are vital for automating industrial quality inspection.
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30 Sep 2021 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 8 samples · 6 unverifiedWe introduce a simple and intuitive self-supervision task, Natural Synthetic Anomalies (NSA), for training an end-to-end model for anomaly detection and localization using only normal training data.
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17 Aug 2021 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 7 samples · 5 unverifiedVisual surface anomaly detection aims to detect local image regions that significantly deviate from normal appearance.
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27 Jul 2021 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 12 samples · 9 unverifiedOur approach results in a computationally and memory-efficient model: CFLOW-AD is faster and smaller by a factor of 10x than prior state-of-the-art with the same input setting.
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8 Feb 2019 3 repositories listedFinally, we demonstrate that a simple set of rules can be used to utilize the output of BINet for anomaly classification.
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30 Jan 2019 3 repositories listedWhile supervised learning yields good results if expert labeled training data is available, the visual variability, and thus the vocabulary of findings, we can detect and exploit, is limited to the annotated lesions.
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27 May 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 10 samples · 6 unverifiedIn this challenge, our method achieved first place in the zero-shot track, especially excelling in segmentation with an impressive F1 score improvement of 0.
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27 Mar 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 10 of 17 samples · 7 unverifiedSimpleNet consists of four components: (1) a pre-trained Feature Extractor that generates local features, (2) a shallow Feature Adapter that transfers local features towards target domain, (3) a simple Anomaly Feature…
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8 Apr 2021 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)We aim at constructing a high performance model for defect detection that detects unknown anomalous patterns of an image without anomalous data.
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11 Jun 2025 1 repository listedOral squamous cell carcinoma OSCC is a major global health burden, particularly in several regions across Asia, Africa, and South America, where it accounts for a significant proportion of cancer cases.
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14 May 2025 1 repository listedThe experiments demonstrate that our generated anomalies effectively improve the model performance of both anomaly classification and segmentation tasks simultaneously, \eg, DRAEM and DseTSeg achieved a 5.
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5 May 2025 1 repository listedRecent advances in visual industrial anomaly detection have demonstrated exceptional performance in identifying and segmenting anomalous regions while maintaining fast inference speeds.
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7 Mar 2025 1 repository listedWe present a novel, lightweight pipeline for anomaly classification using keyword weights.
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28 Jan 2025 1 repository listedAnomaly detection is a critical requirement for ensuring safety in autonomous driving.
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30 Dec 2024 1 repository listedFurthermore, the performance of SoftPatch and SoftPatch+ is comparable to that of the noise-free methods in conventional unsupervised AD setting.
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25 Oct 2024 1 repository listedThis methodology enabled us to improve model accuracy across a wide range of criteria, greatly surpassing all other methods.
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18 Oct 2024 1 repository listedPrevious methods directly cluster anomalies but often struggle due to the lack of anomaly-prior knowledge.
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24 Aug 2024 1 repository listedIn this paper, we overcome these challenges from a new perspective, simultaneously generating a pair of the overall image and the corresponding anomaly part.
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14 Jun 2024 1 repository listedThe detection of abnormal or critical system states is essential in condition monitoring.
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16 May 2024 1 repository listedIn our methodology, any dataset can be unified under the framework of feature-rich anomaly detection, in a way that the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks.
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6 Apr 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverifiedAnomaly detection (AD) aims at detecting abnormal samples that deviate from the expected normal patterns.
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19 Mar 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 8 of 15 samples · 7 unverifiedRecent advancements in large-scale visual-language pre-trained models have led to significant progress in zero-/few-shot anomaly detection within natural image domains.
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30 Jan 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverifiedWe reveal that the abundant normal and abnormal cues implicit in unlabeled test images can be exploited for anomaly determination, which is ignored by prior methods.
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14 Jan 2024 1 repository listedBreast Ultrasound plays a vital role in cancer diagnosis as a non-invasive approach with cost-effective.
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13 Nov 2023 1 repository listedAdding a classifier improves the anatomical and topological accuracy of all correctly classified double aortic arch subjects.
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4 Oct 2023 1 repository listedThis paper proposes ProtoAD, a prototype-based neural network for image anomaly detection and localization.
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11 Jul 2023 1 repository listedIt follows the unsupervised setting and only normal (defect-free) images are used for training.
Syntology lines on 13 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.
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