CVAINov 25, 2024

Background-Aware Defect Generation for Robust Industrial Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2411.16767v21 citationsh-index: 2
Originality Incremental advance
AI Analysis

This work addresses the scarcity of labeled anomalous data in industrial settings, offering a domain-specific improvement for anomaly detection.

The paper tackles the problem of generating realistic defect samples for industrial anomaly detection by proposing a background-aware framework that ensures contextual consistency, achieving superior performance on MVTec AD and MVTec Loco benchmarks.

Detecting anomalies in industrial settings is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled anomalous data. Generative models can mitigate this issue by synthesizing realistic defect samples, but existing approaches often fail to model the crucial interplay between defects and their background. This oversight leads to unrealistic anomalies, especially in scenarios where contextual consistency is essential (i.e., logical anomaly). To address this, we propose a novel background-aware defect generation framework, where the background influences defect denoising without affecting the background itself by ensuring realistic synthesis while preserving structural integrity. Our method leverages a disentanglement loss to separate the background' s denoising process from the defect, enabling controlled defect synthesis through DDIM Inversion. We theoretically demonstrate that our approach maintains background fidelity while generating contextually accurate defects. Extensive experiments on MVTec AD and MVTec Loco benchmarks validate our mehtod's superiority over existing techniques in both defect generation quality and anomaly detection performance.

Foundations

The foundational work for this paper's niche, ranked by how specifically the neighbourhood builds on it — not by global fame.

Your Notes