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Unsupervised Tablet Defect Detection Method Based on Diffusion Model

  • Mengfan Zhang,
  • Weifeng Liu,
  • Linqing He and
  • Di Wang

23 August 2025

Reconstruction-based unsupervised detection methods have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities in the field of tablet anomaly detection, but there are still problems such as poor reconstruction effect and inaccurate positioning of abnormal...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,749 Views
21 Pages

A Timestep-Adaptive-Diffusion-Model-Oriented Unsupervised Detection Method for Fabric Surface Defects

  • Shancheng Tang,
  • Zicheng Jin,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Jianhui Lu and ,
  • Heng Li and
  • Jiqing Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 September 2023

Defect detection is crucial in quality control for fabric production. Deep-learning-based unsupervised reconstruction methods have been recognized universally to address the scarcity of fabric defect samples, high costs of labeling, and insufficient...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Modeling, Control and Optimization of Complex Industrial Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,739 Views
21 Pages

12 July 2025

Anomaly detection methods play a crucial role in automated quality control within modern manufacturing systems. In this context, unsupervised methods are increasingly favored due to their independence from large-scale labeled datasets. However, exist...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,038 Views
15 Pages

SNMatch: An Unsupervised Method for Column Semantic-Type Detection Based on Siamese Network

  • Tiezheng Nie,
  • Hanyu Mao,
  • Aolin Liu,
  • Xuliang Wang and ,
  • Derong Shen and
  • Yue Kou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 February 2025

Column semantic-type detection is a crucial task for data integration and schema matching, particularly when dealing with large volumes of unlabeled tabular data. Existing methods often rely on supervised learning models, which require extensive labe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,176 Views
12 Pages

22 December 2023

A crucial area of study in data mining is outlier detection, particularly in the areas of network security, credit card fraud detection, industrial flaw detection, etc. Existing outlier detection algorithms, which can be divided into supervised metho...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence Models, Tools and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,561 Views
20 Pages

An Efficient and Robust Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Method Using Ensemble Random Projection in Surveillance Videos

  • Jingtao Hu,
  • En Zhu,
  • Siqi Wang,
  • Xinwang Liu and ,
  • Xifeng Guo and
  • Jianping Yin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 September 2019

Video anomaly detection is widely applied in modern society, which is achieved by sensors such as surveillance cameras. This paper learns anomalies by exploiting videos under the fully unsupervised setting. To avoid massive computation caused by back...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,177 Views
18 Pages

12 May 2022

It is critical to use scientific methods to track the performance degradation of in-service buildings over time and avoid accidents. In recent years, both supervised and unsupervised learning methods have yielded positive results in structural health...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,282 Views
20 Pages

6 November 2017

The existing unsupervised change detection methods using full-polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) do not use all the polarimetric information, and the results are subject to the influence of noise. In order to solve these problems, a novel...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,919 Views
14 Pages

9 July 2025

With the rapid expansion of high-speed rail infrastructure, maintaining the structural integrity of insulators is critical to operational safety. However, conventional defect detection techniques typically rely on extensive labeled datasets, struggle...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,684 Views
24 Pages

Automatic Blob Detection Method for Cancerous Lesions in Unsupervised Breast Histology Images

  • Vincent Majanga,
  • Ernest Mnkandla,
  • Zenghui Wang and
  • Donatien Koulla Moulla

The early detection of cancerous lesions is a challenging task given the cancer biology and the variability in tissue characteristics, thus rendering medical image analysis tedious and time-inefficient. In the past, conventional computer-aided diagno...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Medical Image Processing and Segmentation, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
613 Views
23 Pages

2 May 2026

In complex marine environments, underwater magnetic anomaly detection is challenging because target magnetic anomaly signals are typically weak and easily overwhelmed by background magnetic noise. Although deep learning-based methods have significant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Image and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,211 Views
23 Pages

Container technology is currently one of the mainstream technologies in the field of cloud computing, yet its adoption in resource-constrained, latency-sensitive edge environments introduces unique security challenges. While existing system call-base...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge-Cloud Computing and Federated-Split Learning in Internet of Things—Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,499 Views
24 Pages

Landslide Detection Using the Unsupervised Domain-Adaptive Image Segmentation Method

  • Weisong Chen,
  • Zhuo Chen,
  • Danqing Song,
  • Hongjin He and ,
  • Hao Li and
  • Yuxian Zhu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 June 2024

After a landslide, swift and precise identification of the affected area is paramount for facilitating urgent rescue operations and damage assessments. This is particularly vital for land use planners and policymakers, enabling them to efficiently ad...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,663 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Unsupervised Machine Learning-Based Method for Chatter Detection in the Milling of Thin-Walled Parts

  • Runqiong Wang,
  • Qinghua Song,
  • Zhanqiang Liu,
  • Haifeng Ma and ,
  • Munish Kumar Gupta and
  • Zhaojun Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 August 2021

Data-driven chatter detection techniques avoid complex physical modeling and provide the basis for industrial applications of cutting process monitoring. Among them, feature extraction is the key step of chatter detection, which can compensate for th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Advanced Sensors Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Machining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,068 Views
21 Pages

1 June 2019

As synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is playing an increasingly important role in Earth observations, many new methods and technologies have been proposed for change detection using multi-temporal SAR images. Especially with the development of deep lear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SAR in Big Data Era)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,714 Views
22 Pages

An Unsupervised Method of Change Detection in Multi-Temporal PolSAR Data Using a Test Statistic and an Improved K&I Algorithm

  • Jinqi Zhao,
  • Jie Yang,
  • Zhong Lu,
  • Pingxiang Li and ,
  • Wensong Liu and
  • Le Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 December 2017

In recent years, multi-temporal imagery from spaceborne sensors has provided a fast and practical means for surveying and assessing changes in terrain surfaces. Owing to the all-weather imaging capability, polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,136 Views
27 Pages

3 November 2025

Over the service life of several decades, structural damage detection is crucial for ensuring the safety and durability of engineering structures. However, existing methods often overlook the spatiotemporal coupling in multi-sensor data, hindering th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,276 Views
18 Pages

11 April 2024

Existing industrial image anomaly detection techniques predominantly utilize codecs based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, traditional convolutional autoencoders are limited to local features, struggling to assimilate global feature...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Review
  • Open Access
158 Citations
19,514 Views
40 Pages

20 March 2023

Structural damage detection using unsupervised learning methods has been a trending topic in the structural health monitoring (SHM) research community during the past decades. In the context of SHM, unsupervised learning methods rely only on data acq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Sensing and Data Centric Methods for Structural Health Monitoring and Resilience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,752 Views
17 Pages

25 November 2022

With recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and next-generation communication technologies, the demand for Internet-based applications and intelligent digital services is increasing, leading to a significant rise in cyber-attacks such as...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,351 Views
26 Pages

23 March 2023

Change detection (CD) methods using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data have received significant attention in the field of remote sensing Earth observation, which mainly involves knowledge-driven and data-driven approaches. Knowledge-driven CD metho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar: Calibration, Analysis, and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,871 Views
22 Pages

24 May 2025

The integrity and stability of railway fasteners are of vital importance to railway safety. To address the challenges of limited anomaly samples, irregular defect geometries, and complex operational conditions in rail fastener anomaly detection, this...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,457 Views
19 Pages

12 February 2018

The traditional unsupervised change detection methods based on the pixel level can only detect the changes between two different times with same sensor, and the results are easily affected by speckle noise. In this paper, a novel method is proposed t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue First Experiences with Chinese Gaofen-3 SAR Sensor)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,640 Views
23 Pages

30 July 2025

The stable operation of electrical equipment is critical for industrial safety, yet traditional anomaly detection methods often suffer from limitations, such as high resource demands, dependency on expert knowledge, and lack of real-world capabilitie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,289 Views
25 Pages

28 September 2023

The problem of the prompt detection of early-stage hollow worn wheels in railway vehicles via on-board random vibration measurements under normal operation and varying speeds is investigated. This is achieved based on two unsupervised statistical tim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vibration and Acoustic Analysis of Components and Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,389 Views
32 Pages

12 December 2024

Change vector analysis in posterior probability space (CVAPS) is an effective change detection (CD) framework that does not require sound radiometric correction and is robust against accumulated classification errors. Based on training samples within...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Task Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Classification, Segmentation, and Change Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,585 Views
14 Pages

An Unsupervised Abnormal Power Consumption Detection Method Combining Multi-Cluster Feature Selection and the Gaussian Mixture Model

  • Danhua Liu,
  • Dan Huang,
  • Ximing Chen,
  • Jian Dou and ,
  • Li Tang and
  • Zhiqiang Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 August 2024

Power theft and other abnormal power consumption behaviors seriously affect the safety, reliability, and stability of the power grid system. The traditional abnormal power consumption detection methods have complex models and low accuracy. In this pa...

(This article belongs to the Topic Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Methods for Power Equipment in New Energy Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
13,576 Views
24 Pages

9 February 2020

Recently, object detectors based on deep learning have become widely used for vehicle detection and contributed to drastic improvement in performance measures. However, deep learning requires much training data, and detection performance notably degr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Transfer Learning for Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
596 Views
31 Pages

An Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Method for Drones Based on a 1-D Selective Kernel Convolutional Autoencoder with Bayesian Optimization

  • Junjie He,
  • Boyang Zhong,
  • Simin Wang,
  • Lin Song and ,
  • Li Guo,
  • Pengfei Wang and
  • Fei Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 July 2026

The widespread application of drones in complex environments imposes higher demands on flight safety. However, traditional anomaly detection methods often rely on mathematical models or large amounts of labeled samples, which makes them ill suited to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven UAV Design, Control and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
443 Citations
29,628 Views
25 Pages

7 February 2018

Videos represent the primary source of information for surveillance applications. Video material is often available in large quantities but in most cases it contains little or no annotation for supervised learning. This article reviews the state-of-t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,469 Views
23 Pages

11 June 2025

Time series anomaly detection in streaming environments faces persistent challenges due to concept drift, which gradually degrades model reliability. In this paper, we propose Anomaly Detection with Drift-Aware Ensemble-based Incremental Learning (AD...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Edge Computing)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,306 Views
12 Pages

13 July 2023

This paper presents the first results of sea ice detection using the data of Ka- and Ku-band radars at low incidence angles. A classification method based on an unsupervised K-means approach is applied to the arrays of the data for the Arctic and Ant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Polar Ocean, Sea Ice and Atmosphere Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,684 Views
18 Pages

Hybrid Machine Learning–Statistical Method for Anomaly Detection in Flight Data

  • Sameer Kumar Jasra,
  • Gianluca Valentino,
  • Alan Muscat and
  • Robert Camilleri

12 October 2022

This paper investigates the use of an unsupervised hybrid statistical–local outlier factor algorithm to detect anomalies in time-series flight data. Flight data analysis is an activity carried out by airlines primarily as a means of improving t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unsupervised Anomaly Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,447 Views
17 Pages

Industrial quality control is an important task. Most of the existing vision-based unsupervised industrial anomaly detection and segmentation methods require that the training set only consists of normal samples, which is difficult to ensure in pract...

(This article belongs to the Topic Big Data and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,687 Views
19 Pages

30 May 2025

Effectively monitoring the operational status of reactor coolant pumps (RCPs) is crucial for enhancing the safety and stability of nuclear power operations. To address the challenges of limited interpretability and suboptimal detection performance in...

(This article belongs to the Section B4: Nuclear Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,010 Views
23 Pages

25 July 2024

The efficient fault detection (FD) of traction control systems (TCSs) is crucial for ensuring the safe operation of high-speed trains. Transient faults (TFs) can arise due to prolonged operation and harsh environmental conditions, often being masked...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensing and Fault Diagnosis for Complex Manufacturing Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,862 Views
22 Pages

3 January 2022

It is difficult to detect ports in polarimetric SAR images due to the complicated components, morphology, and coastal environment. This paper proposes an unsupervised port detection method by extracting the water of the port based on three-component...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,615 Views
24 Pages

10 January 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been widely applied to the automated detection of pipeline leaks. However, traditional AI methods still face significant challenges in effectively detecting the complete leak process. Furthermore, the de...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI and IoT for Promoting Green Operation and Sustainable Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,678 Views
24 Pages

2 July 2024

Social media serves as a platform for netizens to stay informed and express their opinions through the Internet. Currently, the social media discourse environment faces a significant security threat—offensive comments. A group of users posts co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Natural Language Processing, Semantic Networks, and Sentiment Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,708 Views
16 Pages

3 August 2023

The paper focuses on the importance of prompt and efficient process fault detection in contemporary manufacturing industries, where product quality and safety protocols are critical. The study compares the efficiencies of two techniques for process f...

(This article belongs to the Collection Artificial Intelligence for Data-Driven Fault Detection and Diagnosis)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,344 Views
21 Pages

Intelligent and Data-Driven Fault Detection of Photovoltaic Plants

  • Siya Yao,
  • Qi Kang,
  • Mengchu Zhou,
  • Abdullah Abusorrah and
  • Yusuf Al-Turki

24 September 2021

Most photovoltaic (PV) plants conduct operation and maintenance (O&M) by periodical inspection and cleaning. Such O&M is costly and inefficient. It fails to detect system faults in time, thus causing heavy loss. To ensure their operations are...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Redesign Processes in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,906 Views
15 Pages

An Unsupervised Multichannel Artifact Detection Method for Sleep EEG Based on Riemannian Geometry

  • Elizaveta Saifutdinova,
  • Marco Congedo,
  • Daniela Dudysova,
  • Lenka Lhotska and ,
  • Jana Koprivova and
  • Vaclav Gerla
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 January 2019

In biomedical signal processing, we often face the problem of artifacts that distort the original signals. This concerns also sleep recordings, such as EEG. Artifacts may severely affect or even make impossible visual inspection, as well as automatic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Neurophysiological Data Denoising and Enhancement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,315 Views
9 Pages

Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection for Machine Condition Monitoring Using Classification-Based Methods

  • Yaoguang Wang,
  • Yaohao Zheng,
  • Yunxiang Zhang,
  • Yongsheng Xie and ,
  • Sen Xu,
  • Ying Hu and
  • Liang He
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 November 2021

The task of unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) is challenging for detecting anomalous sounds from a large audio database without any annotated anomalous training data. Many unsupervised methods were proposed, but previous works have confirm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 16th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication (NCMMSC2021))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,735 Views
55 Pages

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Medical Imaging: A Survey of Methods, Challenges, and Future Directions

  • Boyang Liu,
  • Guangli Li,
  • Yuxing Zou,
  • Shiying Zeng and ,
  • Jingqin Lv,
  • Renzhong Wu and
  • Hongbin Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Unsupervised anomaly detection in medical imaging aims to automatically identify potential lesions that deviate from normal patterns in multimodal medical images without requiring annotations of abnormal samples, and is of great clinical value for ea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Medical Imaging Analysis: Current and Future Trends, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,817 Views
21 Pages

Ship Detection in Low-Quality SAR Images via an Unsupervised Domain Adaption Method

  • Xinyang Pu,
  • Hecheng Jia,
  • Yu Xin,
  • Feng Wang and
  • Haipeng Wang

29 June 2023

Ship detection in low-quality Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images poses a persistent challenge. Noise signals in complex environments disrupt imaging conditions, hindering SAR systems from acquiring precise target information, thereby significantly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SAR Images Processing and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
11,100 Views
27 Pages

Banana Fusarium Wilt Disease Detection by Supervised and Unsupervised Methods from UAV-Based Multispectral Imagery

  • Shimin Zhang,
  • Xiuhua Li,
  • Yuxuan Ba,
  • Xuegang Lyu and ,
  • Muqing Zhang and
  • Minzan Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 March 2022

Banana Fusarium wilt (BFW) is a devastating disease with no effective cure methods. Timely and effective detection of the disease and evaluation of its spreading trend will help farmers in making right decisions on plantation management. The main pur...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
10,702 Views
18 Pages

Object-Based Change Detection in Urban Areas: The Effects of Segmentation Strategy, Scale, and Feature Space on Unsupervised Methods

  • Lei Ma,
  • Manchun Li,
  • Thomas Blaschke,
  • Xiaoxue Ma and ,
  • Dirk Tiede,
  • Liang Cheng,
  • Zhenjie Chen and
  • Dong Chen
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

16 September 2016

Object-based change detection (OBCD) has recently been receiving increasing attention as a result of rapid improvements in the resolution of remote sensing data. However, some OBCD issues relating to the segmentation of high-resolution images remain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring of Land Changes)
  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
7,790 Views
24 Pages

7 February 2023

In a physical microgrid system, equipment failures, manual misbehavior of equipment, and power quality can be affected by intentional cyberattacks, made more dangerous by the widespread use of established communication networks via sensors. This pape...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control Part of Cyber-Physical Systems: Modeling, Design and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
15,034 Views
25 Pages

30 January 2023

Detecting anomalies in time series data is important in a variety of fields, including system monitoring, healthcare and cybersecurity. While the abundance of available methods makes it difficult to choose the most appropriate method for a given appl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unsupervised Anomaly Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,234 Views
20 Pages

Fault Detection and Diagnosis Based on Unsupervised Machine Learning Methods: A Kaplan Turbine Case Study

  • Miguel A. C. Michalski,
  • Arthur H. A. Melani,
  • Renan F. da Silva,
  • Gilberto F. M. de Souza and
  • Fernando H. Hamaji

23 December 2021

From the breakdown of the Kaplan rotor of a hydrogenerator unit and the monitored data collected during its operation before such a failure, this work presents a post-occurrence data analysis in which a previously developed hybrid method based on uns...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Sustainable Energy)

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