
In recent years, unsupervised anomaly localization algorithms have become more widely used in industrial inspection tasks. However, in real industrial scenarios, the scarcity of defect samples, the cost of annotation, and the lack of a priori knowledge of defects may render supervised-based methods ineffective. Anomaly detection can be used to find unusual instances of a particular type of document.Currently, deep learning-based visual inspection has been highly successful with the help of supervised learning methods. Thus, it is not feasible to specify other types of documents as counterexamples. However, the universe of documents outside of this topic can be very large and diverse. For instance, in text document classification, it is easy to classify a document under a given topic. Counterexamples, instances of another class, are hard to specify or expensive to collect. In single-class data, all the cases have the same classification. One-class classifiers are sometimes referred to as positive security models, because they seek to identify "good" behaviors and assume that all other behaviors are bad. Deviation from the profile is identified as an anomaly. For example, a model that predicts the side effects of a medication must be trained on data that includes a wide range of responses to the medication.Ī one-class classifier develops a profile that generally describes a typical case in the training data.

Normally, a classification model must be trained on data that includes both examples and counterexamples for each class so that the model can learn to distinguish between them.

An atypical data point can be either an outlier or an example of a previously unseen class. An anomaly detection model predicts whether a data point is typical for a given distribution or not. When applied to traditional data, anomaly detection can be viewed as a form of one-class classification, because ideally only one class is represented in the training data. Learn about anomaly detection as one-class classification in training data. The data contains sensor output from thousands of sensors.Īn oil and gas enterprise or utility company requires proactive maintenance of business-critical assets, such as oil rigs or smart meters, to reduce operations and maintenance costs, improve up-time of revenue-generating assets, and improve safety margins for life-critical systems. How can such anomalies be detected along with their source causes, such as resource-contention issues and complex memory leaks? They are outliers.Īn IT department encounters compute resource performance anomalies.

The claims data contains very few counter-examples. How can the fraudulent claims be identified? There are no counter-examples.Īn insurance agency processes millions of insurance claims, knowing that a very small number are fraudulent. The law enforcement data is all of one class.

How can a suspicious activity be flagged? Anomaly detection can be used to solve problems like the following:Ī law enforcement agency compiles data about illegal activities, but nothing about legitimate activities.
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This data may consist of traditional enterprise data or Internet of Things (IoT) sensor data.Īnomaly detection is an important tool for detecting, for example, fraud, network intrusions, enterprise computing service interruptions, sensor time series prognostics, and other rare events that can have great significance but are hard to find. The goal of anomaly detection is to identify items, events, or observations that are unusual within data that is seemingly 'normal'.
