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HyADS: A Hybrid Lightweight Anomaly Detection Framework for Edge-Based Industrial Systems with Limited Data
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Xingrao Ma
Xingrao Ma 1,
Yiting Yang
Yiting Yang 1,
Di Shao
Di Shao 2,*
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Fong Chi Kit
Fong Chi Kit 1 and
Chengzu Dong
Chengzu Dong 1,*
1
Division of AI, School of Data Science, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
2
School of IT, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia
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Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Electronics 2025, 14(11), 2250; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14112250 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 30 April 2025
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Revised: 22 May 2025
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Accepted: 27 May 2025
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Published: 31 May 2025
Abstract
Industrial defect detection in edge computing environments faces critical challenges in balancing accuracy, efficiency, and adaptability under data scarcity. To address these limitations, we propose the Hybrid Anomaly Detection System (HyADS), a novel lightweight framework for edge-based industrial defect detection. HyADS integrates three synergistic modules: (1) a feature extractor that integrates Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and Local Binary Patterns (LBP) to capture robust texture features, (2) a lightweight U-net autoencoder that reconstructs normal patterns while preserving spatial details to highlight small-scale defects, and (3) an adaptive patch matching module inspired by memory bank retrieval principles to accurately localize local outliers. These components are synergistically fused and then fed into a segmentation head that unifies global reconstruction errors and local anomaly maps into pixel-accurate defect masks. Extensive experiments on the MVTec AD, NEU, and Severstal datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art performance. Notably, HyADS achieves state-of-the-art F1 scores (94.1% on MVTec) in anomaly detection and IoU scores (85.5% on NEU/82.8% on Seversta) in segmentation. Designed for edge deployment, this framework achieves real-time inference (40–45 FPS on an RTX 4080 GPU) with minimal computational overheads, providing a practical solution for industrial quality control in resource-constrained environments.
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Ma, X.; Yang, Y.; Shao, D.; Kit, F.C.; Dong, C.
HyADS: A Hybrid Lightweight Anomaly Detection Framework for Edge-Based Industrial Systems with Limited Data. Electronics 2025, 14, 2250.
https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14112250
AMA Style
Ma X, Yang Y, Shao D, Kit FC, Dong C.
HyADS: A Hybrid Lightweight Anomaly Detection Framework for Edge-Based Industrial Systems with Limited Data. Electronics. 2025; 14(11):2250.
https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14112250
Chicago/Turabian Style
Ma, Xingrao, Yiting Yang, Di Shao, Fong Chi Kit, and Chengzu Dong.
2025. "HyADS: A Hybrid Lightweight Anomaly Detection Framework for Edge-Based Industrial Systems with Limited Data" Electronics 14, no. 11: 2250.
https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14112250
APA Style
Ma, X., Yang, Y., Shao, D., Kit, F. C., & Dong, C.
(2025). HyADS: A Hybrid Lightweight Anomaly Detection Framework for Edge-Based Industrial Systems with Limited Data. Electronics, 14(11), 2250.
https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14112250
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