Local Density-Based Anomaly Score Normalization for Domain Generalization
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| author | Wilkinghoff, Kevin Yang, Haici Ebbers, Janek Germain, François G. Wichern, Gordon Roux, Jonathan Le |
| author_facet | Wilkinghoff, Kevin Yang, Haici Ebbers, Janek Germain, François G. Wichern, Gordon Roux, Jonathan Le |
| contents | State-of-the-art anomalous sound detection (ASD) systems in domain-shifted conditions rely on projecting audio signals into an embedding space and using distance-based outlier detection to compute anomaly scores. One of the major difficulties to overcome is the so-called domain mismatch between the anomaly score distributions of a source domain and a target domain that differ acoustically and in terms of the amount of training data provided. A decision threshold that is optimal for one domain may be highly sub-optimal for the other domain and vice versa. This significantly degrades the performance when only using a single decision threshold, as is required when generalizing to multiple data domains that are possibly unseen during training while still using the same trained ASD system as in the source domain. To reduce this mismatch between the domains, we propose a simple local-density-based anomaly score normalization scheme. In experiments conducted on several ASD datasets, we show that the proposed normalization scheme consistently improves performance for various types of embedding-based ASD systems and yields better results than existing anomaly score normalization approaches. |
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| spellingShingle | Local Density-Based Anomaly Score Normalization for Domain Generalization Wilkinghoff, Kevin Yang, Haici Ebbers, Janek Germain, François G. Wichern, Gordon Roux, Jonathan Le Audio and Speech Processing Sound State-of-the-art anomalous sound detection (ASD) systems in domain-shifted conditions rely on projecting audio signals into an embedding space and using distance-based outlier detection to compute anomaly scores. One of the major difficulties to overcome is the so-called domain mismatch between the anomaly score distributions of a source domain and a target domain that differ acoustically and in terms of the amount of training data provided. A decision threshold that is optimal for one domain may be highly sub-optimal for the other domain and vice versa. This significantly degrades the performance when only using a single decision threshold, as is required when generalizing to multiple data domains that are possibly unseen during training while still using the same trained ASD system as in the source domain. To reduce this mismatch between the domains, we propose a simple local-density-based anomaly score normalization scheme. In experiments conducted on several ASD datasets, we show that the proposed normalization scheme consistently improves performance for various types of embedding-based ASD systems and yields better results than existing anomaly score normalization approaches. |
| title | Local Density-Based Anomaly Score Normalization for Domain Generalization |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing Sound |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10951 |