VL4AD: Vision-Language Models Improve Pixel-wise Anomaly Detection

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Autores principales: Zhong, Liangyu, Sicking, Joachim, Hüger, Fabian, Gottschalk, Hanno
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author Zhong, Liangyu
Sicking, Joachim
Hüger, Fabian
Gottschalk, Hanno
author_facet Zhong, Liangyu
Sicking, Joachim
Hüger, Fabian
Gottschalk, Hanno
contents Semantic segmentation networks have achieved significant success under the assumption of independent and identically distributed data. However, these networks often struggle to detect anomalies from unknown semantic classes due to the limited set of visual concepts they are typically trained on. To address this issue, anomaly segmentation often involves fine-tuning on outlier samples, necessitating additional efforts for data collection, labeling, and model retraining. Seeking to avoid this cumbersome work, we take a different approach and propose to incorporate Vision-Language (VL) encoders into existing anomaly detectors to leverage the semantically broad VL pre-training for improved outlier awareness. Additionally, we propose a new scoring function that enables data- and training-free outlier supervision via textual prompts. The resulting VL4AD model, which includes max-logit prompt ensembling and a class-merging strategy, achieves competitive performance on widely used benchmark datasets, thereby demonstrating the potential of vision-language models for pixel-wise anomaly detection.
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spellingShingle VL4AD: Vision-Language Models Improve Pixel-wise Anomaly Detection
Zhong, Liangyu
Sicking, Joachim
Hüger, Fabian
Gottschalk, Hanno
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Semantic segmentation networks have achieved significant success under the assumption of independent and identically distributed data. However, these networks often struggle to detect anomalies from unknown semantic classes due to the limited set of visual concepts they are typically trained on. To address this issue, anomaly segmentation often involves fine-tuning on outlier samples, necessitating additional efforts for data collection, labeling, and model retraining. Seeking to avoid this cumbersome work, we take a different approach and propose to incorporate Vision-Language (VL) encoders into existing anomaly detectors to leverage the semantically broad VL pre-training for improved outlier awareness. Additionally, we propose a new scoring function that enables data- and training-free outlier supervision via textual prompts. The resulting VL4AD model, which includes max-logit prompt ensembling and a class-merging strategy, achieves competitive performance on widely used benchmark datasets, thereby demonstrating the potential of vision-language models for pixel-wise anomaly detection.
title VL4AD: Vision-Language Models Improve Pixel-wise Anomaly Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17330