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Representative Papers

Detecting Defects that Matter: An Application-Driven Benchmark for Anomaly Detection in Manufacturing and Retail Logistics (VAND 4.0 Challenge)

Oct 03, 2026

This study addresses the saturation and limited real-world applicability of existing anomaly detection benchmarks, which inadequately assess defect detection performance and computational efficiency in industrial and retail settings. To this end, we construct an application-driven benchmark featuring hidden test sets for these domains, propose a novel efficiency metric integrating performance with power consumption, and release Kaputt-Rare, a low-prevalence retail dataset. Comprehensive evaluations encompassing pixel-level segmentation and object detection are conducted using DINOv3, vision-language models (VLMs), and specialized supervised detectors. Results reveal that the best-performing method achieves only 57% SegF1 on industrial segmentation, while VLMs lag behind specialized models by approximately 28 AP in retail detection. These findings underscore the persistent challenges associated with efficiency optimization and rare defect detection in practical applications.

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Foundation Visual Encoders Are Secretly Few-Shot Anomaly Detectors

Oct 02, 2025

Industrial safety inspection faces challenges in few-shot, class-agnostic anomaly detection, where distinguishing normal from anomalous features is inherently difficult due to subtle and diverse anomalies. Method: We propose a lightweight embedding-difference-driven approach that exploits the strong correlation between anomaly severity and local discrepancies in the embedding space of pretrained vision encoders (e.g., DINOv3). Instead of introducing complex architectures or requiring auxiliary supervision, we design a learnable nonlinear projection operator to explicitly unlock the implicit anomaly discriminability embedded in these representations. Our method models the natural image distribution on the embedding manifold using only a few normal samples and localizes out-of-distribution anomalies via difference heatmaps. Results: The approach achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple industrial anomaly detection benchmarks, reduces model parameters by an order of magnitude, exhibits strong cross-category generalization, and demonstrates consistent effectiveness across diverse foundation encoders.

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From Benchmarks to Reality: Advancing Visual Anomaly Detection by the VAND 3.0 Challenge

Sep 22, 2025

This study addresses two core challenges in real-world visual anomaly detection: robustness to distributional shifts and few-shot generalization. Leveraging the VAND 3.0 challenge, we propose a novel evaluation framework that jointly emphasizes out-of-distribution robustness and few-shot adaptability. We systematically investigate large-scale pre-trained vision and vision-language models (e.g., ViT, CLIP), introducing a backbone-driven pipeline for feature fusion and few-shot adaptation—incorporating optimized fine-tuning strategies and cross-modal feature alignment. Experiments demonstrate substantial improvements over baselines on both tasks, validating the critical contribution of advanced backbone architectures. Furthermore, our analysis uncovers a fundamental trade-off between computational efficiency and real-time deployability, highlighting bottlenecks in current approaches. The work thus provides new insights, practical design principles, and a rigorous benchmark for lightweight, robust, and production-ready anomaly detection systems.

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MVTOP: Multi-View Transformer-based Object Pose-Estimation

Aug 05, 2025

In multi-view rigid object pose estimation, single-view methods suffer from pose ambiguity caused by occlusion and symmetry. To address this, we propose an end-to-end multi-view fusion framework grounded in line-of-sight (LOS) geometric modeling. Unlike conventional post-hoc fusion or depth-dependent approaches, our method integrates multi-view images early in feature extraction and incorporates camera intrinsics and relative pose priors to guide spatial reasoning via a novel LOS-aware attention mechanism. Crucially, it achieves global multi-view pose estimation without requiring depth supervision—a first in the literature. Extensive experiments on our synthetic dataset and the YCB-Video benchmark demonstrate significant improvements over both single-view baselines and state-of-the-art multi-view methods, validating robustness under ambiguous conditions and strong generalization capability.

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Challenges of Requirements Communication and Digital Assets Verification in Infrastructure Projects

Apr 29, 2025

This study addresses critical challenges in requirements communication and digital asset verification between clients and suppliers in infrastructure projects. Drawing on two domain-specific case studies from road and railway engineering, we conducted semi-structured interviews with ten subject-matter experts and applied thematic coding analysis. For the first time, we systematically identified 13 recurrent challenges, analyzing their root causes, operational impacts, and striking parallels with well-documented software engineering problems. Our contribution lies in advancing cross-domain solution transfer: we synthesize reusable collaboration mechanisms and verification pathways grounded in empirical evidence. These findings provide both theoretical grounding and practical foundations for developing standardized, trustworthy frameworks for requirements coordination and digital asset validation in infrastructure delivery. (128 words)

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Detecting Defects that Matter: An Application-Driven Benchmark for Anomaly Detection in Manufacturing and Retail Logistics (VAND 4.0 Challenge)

Oct 03, 2026

This study addresses the saturation and limited real-world applicability of existing anomaly detection benchmarks, which inadequately assess defect detection performance and computational efficiency in industrial and retail settings. To this end, we construct an application-driven benchmark featuring hidden test sets for these domains, propose a novel efficiency metric integrating performance with power consumption, and release Kaputt-Rare, a low-prevalence retail dataset. Comprehensive evaluations encompassing pixel-level segmentation and object detection are conducted using DINOv3, vision-language models (VLMs), and specialized supervised detectors. Results reveal that the best-performing method achieves only 57% SegF1 on industrial segmentation, while VLMs lag behind specialized models by approximately 28 AP in retail detection. These findings underscore the persistent challenges associated with efficiency optimization and rare defect detection in practical applications.

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Foundation Visual Encoders Are Secretly Few-Shot Anomaly Detectors

Oct 02, 2025

Industrial safety inspection faces challenges in few-shot, class-agnostic anomaly detection, where distinguishing normal from anomalous features is inherently difficult due to subtle and diverse anomalies. Method: We propose a lightweight embedding-difference-driven approach that exploits the strong correlation between anomaly severity and local discrepancies in the embedding space of pretrained vision encoders (e.g., DINOv3). Instead of introducing complex architectures or requiring auxiliary supervision, we design a learnable nonlinear projection operator to explicitly unlock the implicit anomaly discriminability embedded in these representations. Our method models the natural image distribution on the embedding manifold using only a few normal samples and localizes out-of-distribution anomalies via difference heatmaps. Results: The approach achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple industrial anomaly detection benchmarks, reduces model parameters by an order of magnitude, exhibits strong cross-category generalization, and demonstrates consistent effectiveness across diverse foundation encoders.

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From Benchmarks to Reality: Advancing Visual Anomaly Detection by the VAND 3.0 Challenge

Sep 22, 2025

This study addresses two core challenges in real-world visual anomaly detection: robustness to distributional shifts and few-shot generalization. Leveraging the VAND 3.0 challenge, we propose a novel evaluation framework that jointly emphasizes out-of-distribution robustness and few-shot adaptability. We systematically investigate large-scale pre-trained vision and vision-language models (e.g., ViT, CLIP), introducing a backbone-driven pipeline for feature fusion and few-shot adaptation—incorporating optimized fine-tuning strategies and cross-modal feature alignment. Experiments demonstrate substantial improvements over baselines on both tasks, validating the critical contribution of advanced backbone architectures. Furthermore, our analysis uncovers a fundamental trade-off between computational efficiency and real-time deployability, highlighting bottlenecks in current approaches. The work thus provides new insights, practical design principles, and a rigorous benchmark for lightweight, robust, and production-ready anomaly detection systems.

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MVTOP: Multi-View Transformer-based Object Pose-Estimation

Aug 05, 2025

In multi-view rigid object pose estimation, single-view methods suffer from pose ambiguity caused by occlusion and symmetry. To address this, we propose an end-to-end multi-view fusion framework grounded in line-of-sight (LOS) geometric modeling. Unlike conventional post-hoc fusion or depth-dependent approaches, our method integrates multi-view images early in feature extraction and incorporates camera intrinsics and relative pose priors to guide spatial reasoning via a novel LOS-aware attention mechanism. Crucially, it achieves global multi-view pose estimation without requiring depth supervision—a first in the literature. Extensive experiments on our synthetic dataset and the YCB-Video benchmark demonstrate significant improvements over both single-view baselines and state-of-the-art multi-view methods, validating robustness under ambiguous conditions and strong generalization capability.

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Challenges of Requirements Communication and Digital Assets Verification in Infrastructure Projects

Apr 29, 2025

This study addresses critical challenges in requirements communication and digital asset verification between clients and suppliers in infrastructure projects. Drawing on two domain-specific case studies from road and railway engineering, we conducted semi-structured interviews with ten subject-matter experts and applied thematic coding analysis. For the first time, we systematically identified 13 recurrent challenges, analyzing their root causes, operational impacts, and striking parallels with well-documented software engineering problems. Our contribution lies in advancing cross-domain solution transfer: we synthesize reusable collaboration mechanisms and verification pathways grounded in empirical evidence. These findings provide both theoretical grounding and practical foundations for developing standardized, trustworthy frameworks for requirements coordination and digital asset validation in infrastructure delivery. (128 words)

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