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Main Authors: Aqeel, Muhammad, Leonardi, Federico, Setti, Francesco
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15335
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author Aqeel, Muhammad
Leonardi, Federico
Setti, Francesco
author_facet Aqeel, Muhammad
Leonardi, Federico
Setti, Francesco
contents Industrial defect detection systems face critical limitations when confined to one-class anomaly detection paradigms, which assume uniform outlier distributions and struggle with data scarcity in real-world manufacturing environments. We present ExDD (Explicit Dual Distribution), a novel framework that transcends these limitations by explicitly modeling dual feature distributions. Our approach leverages parallel memory banks that capture the distinct statistical properties of both normality and anomalous patterns, addressing the fundamental flaw of uniform outlier assumptions. To overcome data scarcity, we employ latent diffusion models with domain-specific textual conditioning, generating in-distribution synthetic defects that preserve industrial context. Our neighborhood-aware ratio scoring mechanism elegantly fuses complementary distance metrics, amplifying signals in regions exhibiting both deviation from normality and similarity to known defect patterns. Experimental validation on KSDD2 demonstrates superior performance (94.2% I-AUROC, 97.7% P-AUROC), with optimal augmentation at 100 synthetic samples. https://github.com/aqeeelmirza/ExDD-Defect-Detection
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spellingShingle ExDD: Explicit Dual Distribution Learning for Surface Defect Detection via Diffusion Synthesis
Aqeel, Muhammad
Leonardi, Federico
Setti, Francesco
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Industrial defect detection systems face critical limitations when confined to one-class anomaly detection paradigms, which assume uniform outlier distributions and struggle with data scarcity in real-world manufacturing environments. We present ExDD (Explicit Dual Distribution), a novel framework that transcends these limitations by explicitly modeling dual feature distributions. Our approach leverages parallel memory banks that capture the distinct statistical properties of both normality and anomalous patterns, addressing the fundamental flaw of uniform outlier assumptions. To overcome data scarcity, we employ latent diffusion models with domain-specific textual conditioning, generating in-distribution synthetic defects that preserve industrial context. Our neighborhood-aware ratio scoring mechanism elegantly fuses complementary distance metrics, amplifying signals in regions exhibiting both deviation from normality and similarity to known defect patterns. Experimental validation on KSDD2 demonstrates superior performance (94.2% I-AUROC, 97.7% P-AUROC), with optimal augmentation at 100 synthetic samples. https://github.com/aqeeelmirza/ExDD-Defect-Detection
title ExDD: Explicit Dual Distribution Learning for Surface Defect Detection via Diffusion Synthesis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15335