CVAIJul 10, 2025

NexViTAD: Few-shot Unsupervised Cross-Domain Defect Detection via Vision Foundation Models and Multi-Task Learning

arXiv:2507.07579v1h-index: 11
Originality Incremental advance
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This addresses industrial defect detection across domains, but it is incremental as it builds on existing vision foundation models and multi-task learning techniques.

The paper tackled the problem of domain-shift challenges in industrial anomaly detection by proposing a few-shot cross-domain framework, achieving state-of-the-art performance with an AUC of 97.5%, AP of 70.4%, and PRO of 95.2% on the MVTec AD dataset.

This paper presents a novel few-shot cross-domain anomaly detection framework, Nexus Vision Transformer for Anomaly Detection (NexViTAD), based on vision foundation models, which effectively addresses domain-shift challenges in industrial anomaly detection through innovative shared subspace projection mechanisms and multi-task learning (MTL) module. The main innovations include: (1) a hierarchical adapter module that adaptively fuses complementary features from Hiera and DINO-v2 pre-trained models, constructing more robust feature representations; (2) a shared subspace projection strategy that enables effective cross-domain knowledge transfer through bottleneck dimension constraints and skip connection mechanisms; (3) a MTL Decoder architecture supports simultaneous processing of multiple source domains, significantly enhancing model generalization capabilities; (4) an anomaly score inference method based on Sinkhorn-K-means clustering, combined with Gaussian filtering and adaptive threshold processing for precise pixel level. Valuated on the MVTec AD dataset, NexViTAD delivers state-of-the-art performance with an AUC of 97.5%, AP of 70.4%, and PRO of 95.2% in the target domains, surpassing other recent models, marking a transformative advance in cross-domain defect detection.

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