URA-Net: Uncertainty-Integrated Anomaly Perception and Restoration Attention Network for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

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Auteurs principaux: Luo, Wei, Xing, Peng, Cao, Yunkang, Yao, Haiming, Shen, Weiming, Li, Zechao
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author Luo, Wei
Xing, Peng
Cao, Yunkang
Yao, Haiming
Shen, Weiming
Li, Zechao
author_facet Luo, Wei
Xing, Peng
Cao, Yunkang
Yao, Haiming
Shen, Weiming
Li, Zechao
contents Unsupervised anomaly detection plays a pivotal role in industrial defect inspection and medical image analysis, with most methods relying on the reconstruction framework. However, these methods may suffer from over-generalization, enabling them to reconstruct anomalies well, which leads to poor detection performance. To address this issue, instead of focusing solely on normality reconstruction, we propose an innovative Uncertainty-Integrated Anomaly Perception and Restoration Attention Network (URA-Net), which explicitly restores abnormal patterns to their corresponding normality. First, unlike traditional image reconstruction methods, we utilize a pre-trained convolutional neural network to extract multi-level semantic features as the reconstruction target. To assist the URA-Net learning to restore anomalies, we introduce a novel feature-level artificial anomaly synthesis module to generate anomalous samples for training. Subsequently, a novel uncertainty-integrated anomaly perception module based on Bayesian neural networks is introduced to learn the distributions of anomalous and normal features. This facilitates the estimation of anomalous regions and ambiguous boundaries, laying the foundation for subsequent anomaly restoration. Then, we propose a novel restoration attention mechanism that leverages global normal semantic information to restore detected anomalous regions, thereby obtaining defect-free restored features. Finally, we employ residual maps between input features and restored features for anomaly detection and localization. The comprehensive experimental results on two industrial datasets, MVTec AD and BTAD, along with a medical image dataset, OCT-2017, unequivocally demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.
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spellingShingle URA-Net: Uncertainty-Integrated Anomaly Perception and Restoration Attention Network for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
Luo, Wei
Xing, Peng
Cao, Yunkang
Yao, Haiming
Shen, Weiming
Li, Zechao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Unsupervised anomaly detection plays a pivotal role in industrial defect inspection and medical image analysis, with most methods relying on the reconstruction framework. However, these methods may suffer from over-generalization, enabling them to reconstruct anomalies well, which leads to poor detection performance. To address this issue, instead of focusing solely on normality reconstruction, we propose an innovative Uncertainty-Integrated Anomaly Perception and Restoration Attention Network (URA-Net), which explicitly restores abnormal patterns to their corresponding normality. First, unlike traditional image reconstruction methods, we utilize a pre-trained convolutional neural network to extract multi-level semantic features as the reconstruction target. To assist the URA-Net learning to restore anomalies, we introduce a novel feature-level artificial anomaly synthesis module to generate anomalous samples for training. Subsequently, a novel uncertainty-integrated anomaly perception module based on Bayesian neural networks is introduced to learn the distributions of anomalous and normal features. This facilitates the estimation of anomalous regions and ambiguous boundaries, laying the foundation for subsequent anomaly restoration. Then, we propose a novel restoration attention mechanism that leverages global normal semantic information to restore detected anomalous regions, thereby obtaining defect-free restored features. Finally, we employ residual maps between input features and restored features for anomaly detection and localization. The comprehensive experimental results on two industrial datasets, MVTec AD and BTAD, along with a medical image dataset, OCT-2017, unequivocally demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.
title URA-Net: Uncertainty-Integrated Anomaly Perception and Restoration Attention Network for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22840