Odd-One-Out: Anomaly Detection by Comparing with Neighbors

This paper introduces a novel anomaly detection (AD) problem aimed at identifying `odd-looking' objects within a scene by comparing them to other objects present. Unlike traditional AD benchmarks with fixed anomaly criteria, our task detects anomalies specific to each scene by inferring a reference group of regular objects. To address occlusions, we use multiple views of each scene as input, construct 3D object-centric models for each instance from 2D views, enhancing these models with geometrically consistent part-aware representations. Anomalous objects are then detected through cross-instance comparison. We also introduce two new benchmarks, ToysAD-8K and PartsAD-15K as testbeds for future research in this task. We provide a comprehensive analysis of our method quantitatively and qualitatively on these benchmarks.

@article{bhunia2025_2406.20099,
  title={ Odd-One-Out: Anomaly Detection by Comparing with Neighbors },
  author={ Ankan Bhunia and Changjian Li and Hakan Bilen },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.20099},
  year={ 2025 }
}