Anomaly Detection with Conditioned Denoising Diffusion Models

Traditional reconstruction-based methods have struggled to achieve competitive performance in anomaly detection. In this paper, we introduce Denoising Diffusion Anomaly Detection (DDAD), a novel denoising process for image reconstruction conditioned on a target image. This ensures a coherent restora...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Mousakhan, Arian, Brox, Thomas, Tayyub, Jawad
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 03.12.2023
Subjects
Anomalies
Conditioning
Image enhancement
Image reconstruction
Noise reduction
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Summary:Traditional reconstruction-based methods have struggled to achieve competitive performance in anomaly detection. In this paper, we introduce Denoising Diffusion Anomaly Detection (DDAD), a novel denoising process for image reconstruction conditioned on a target image. This ensures a coherent restoration that closely resembles the target image. Our anomaly detection framework employs the conditioning mechanism, where the target image is set as the input image to guide the denoising process, leading to a defectless reconstruction while maintaining nominal patterns. Anomalies are then localised via a pixel-wise and feature-wise comparison of the input and reconstructed image. Finally, to enhance the effectiveness of the feature-wise comparison, we introduce a domain adaptation method that utilises nearly identical generated examples from our conditioned denoising process to fine-tune the pretrained feature extractor. The veracity of DDAD is demonstrated on various datasets including MVTec and VisA benchmarks, achieving state-of-the-art results of \(99.8 \%\) and \(98.9 \%\) image-level AUROC respectively.
ISSN:2331-8422