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48 results for abnormality detection

We address the problem of abnormal event detection from trajectory data. In this paper, a new adversarial approach is proposed for building a deep neural network binary classifier, trained in an unsupervised fashion, that can distinguish normal from abnormal trajectory-based events without the need for setting manual d…

2019-03-26abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we focus on the development of a method that detects abnormal trajectories of road users at traffic intersections. The main difficulty with this is the fact that there are very few abnormal data and the normal ones are insufficient for the training of any kinds of machine learning model. To tackle these …

2018-08-25abs ↗pdf ↗

In machine learning, novelty detection is the task of identifying novel unseen data. During training, only samples from the normal class are available. Test samples are classified as normal or abnormal by assignment of a novelty score. Here we propose novelty detection methods based on training variational autoencoders…

2018-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper detects abnormalities in brain activity patterns using unsupervised learning.

problem Detecting abnormalities in resting-state brain activity patterns.
method Two strategies: autoencoder approach and next frame prediction.
result Both approaches can learn useful representations of rs-fMRI data for abnormality detection.

Valid inference method for DTW distance for abnormal time-series detection.

problem Statistical inference on DTW distance under uncertain conditions.
method Conditional selective inference framework to derive valid p-values.
result First method to provide valid p-values for DTW distance.

MEMGAN uses memory to improve anomaly detection by isolating abnormal data.

problem Weak guarantees for detecting anomalous data in classical algorithms.
method Memory-augmented Generative Adversarial Networks (MEMGAN) with a memory module.
result MEMGAN provides strong guarantees for anomaly detection with improved reconstruction.

ODBAE detects complex phenotypes in biological data.

problem Challenges in identifying complex phenotypes from high-dimensional biological data.
method ODBAE (Outlier Detection using Balanced Autoencoders) identifies influential and high leverage points in latent relationships among multiple physiological parameters.
result ODBAE reveals novel metabolism-related genes and uncovers coordinated abnormalities across metabolic indicators.

This work detects anomalous clients in federated learning to prevent their adverse impacts.

problem Detecting and preventing anomalous client behaviors in federated learning systems.
method Generates low-dimensional surrogates of model weight vectors and uses them for anomaly detection.
result The proposed detection-based approach significantly outperforms conventional defense-based methods.

Gradient boosting detects insider purchases predicting abnormal returns in microcap stocks.

problem Predicting abnormal returns in U.S. microcap stocks using insider purchase signals.
method Gradient boosting classifier trained on insider identity, transaction history, and market conditions.
result Gradient boosting classifier achieves AUC of 0.70 on out-of-sample data, with precision and recall of 0.38 and 0.69 respectively.

Ubiquitous anomalies endanger the security of our system constantly. They may bring irreversible damages to the system and cause leakage of privacy. Thus, it is of vital importance to promptly detect these anomalies. Traditional supervised methods such as Decision Trees and Support Vector Machine (SVM) are used to clas…

2019-04-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a scoring function for detecting anomalies in large datasets.

problem Detecting outliers in large, feature-rich datasets.
method Binary classification problem with a two-sample linear rank statistic.
result Empirical results show the effectiveness of the proposed scoring function.

A contaminated mixture model detects outliers in multivariate functional data.

problem Detecting abnormal sensor measurements in multivariate functional data.
method A contaminated mixture model that clusters and detects outliers without specifying outlier proportion.
result The model outperforms competitors and correctly detects abnormal behaviors in real data.

New method for valid and exact statistical inference of multi-dimensional change-points.

problem Statistical inference of change-points in multi-dimensional sequences.
method Proposes a method to guarantee the statistical reliability of both location and components of detected changes.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the method in genomic abnormality identification and human behavior analysis.

Deep learning improves combustor anomaly detection in gas turbines.

problem Improving anomaly detection performance in gas turbine combustors.
method Hierarchically learned features from exhaust gas temperature sensor measurements using deep learning.
result Deep learning-based anomaly detection significantly improved combustor anomaly detection performance.

Paper tackles anomaly detection in SAR images without labeled data.

problem Anomaly detection in SAR images with speckle noise and spatial correlation issues.
method Self-supervised deep learning approach: despeckling, adversarial autoencoder, change detection.
result Method outperforms conventional algorithms in detecting anomalies in SAR images.

Online anomaly detection of time-series data is an important and challenging task in machine learning. Gaussian processes (GPs) are powerful and flexible models for modeling time-series data. However, the high time complexity of GPs limits their applications in online anomaly detection. Attributed to some internal or e…

2019-05-14abs ↗pdf ↗

We study trade-based manipulation of stock prices from the perspective of complex trading networks constructed by using detailed information of trades. A stock trading network consists of nodes and directed links, where every trader is a node and a link is formed from one trader to the other if the former sells shares …

2012-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

A novel dynamic Bayesian nonparametric topic model for anomaly detection in video is proposed in this paper. Batch and online Gibbs samplers are developed for inference. The paper introduces a new abnormality measure for decision making. The proposed method is evaluated on both synthetic and real data. The comparison w…

2016-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep RL detects anomalies from few labeled examples and large unlabeled data.

problem Anomaly detection with limited labeled data and large unlabeled data.
method Deep reinforcement learning to optimize detection of labeled and unlabeled anomalies.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on 48 real-world datasets.

New research finds uncertainty estimation techniques fail to reliably detect abnormal medical cases.

problem Uncertainty estimation does not reliably detect out-of-distribution patients in medical tabular data.
method A series of tests on various uncertainty estimation techniques on real-world medical data.
result Almost all techniques fail to identify out-of-distribution patients, contradicting earlier findings.

Deep learning model improves X-ray disease detection accuracy in Thai patients.

problem Lack of large-scale validation of AI algorithms for medical image diagnosis in Thailand.
method Development and testing of a deep learning algorithm using 421,859 local chest radiographs.
result Convolutional neural networks achieve remarkable performance in detecting 13 common abnormality conditions on chest X-ray.

Outlier detection plays an essential role in many data-driven applications to identify isolated instances that are different from the majority. While many statistical learning and data mining techniques have been used for developing more effective outlier detection algorithms, the interpretation of detected outliers do…

2017-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Anomalies in time-series data give essential and often actionable information in many applications. In this paper we consider a model-free anomaly detection method for univariate time-series which adapts to non-stationarity in the data stream and provides probabilistic abnormality scores based on the conformal predicti…

2017-06-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Model predicts epileptic seizures by detecting preictal state using wavelet transform and PCA.

problem Predicting epileptic seizures before onset.
method Common spatial pattern filtering, wavelet transform for preprocessing, PCA for feature extraction, SVM for classification.
result Average sensitivity of 93.1% for 84 seizures in 23 subjects.

New index improves anomaly detection in correlated time series data.

problem Challenges in evaluating cluster quality for anomaly detection.
method Introduced Synchronized Anomaly Agreement Index (SAAI) to assess cluster quality.
result Maximizing SAAI improves anomaly detection accuracy by 0.23 compared to SSC and by 0.32 compared to X-Means.

Learning how to rank multivariate unlabeled observations depending on their degree of abnormality/novelty is a crucial problem in a wide range of applications. In practice, it generally consists in building a real valued "scoring" function on the feature space so as to quantify to which extent observations should be co…

2015-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Anomaly detection based on one-class classification algorithms is broadly used in many applied domains like image processing (e.g. detection of whether a patient is "cancerous" or "healthy" from mammography image), network intrusion detection, etc. Performance of an anomaly detection algorithm crucially depends on a ke…

2017-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

INCAD clusters and detects anomalies in streaming data without thresholds.

problem Clustering and anomaly detection for streaming data with unknown clusters and thresholds.
method Probabilistic clustering and anomaly detection in a streaming model.
result More reliable definition of normal vs abnormal behavior in streaming data.