# Pushing the Limits of Fewshot Anomaly Detection in Industry Vision: Graphcore

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12082 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.12082/

## Key facts

- Cited by 75 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 19 of its 29 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 28 Jan 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 19 of 19)

- [Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1609.02907/) (2016)
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- [Towards Total Recall in Industrial Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.08265/) (2021)
- [PaDiM: a Patch Distribution Modeling Framework for Anomaly Detection and Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.08785/) (2020)
- [Anomaly Detection via Reverse Distillation from One-Class Embedding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.10703/) (2022)
- [Sub-Image Anomaly Detection with Deep Pyramid Correspondences](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.02357/) (2020)
- [Vision GNN: An Image is Worth Graph of Nodes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.00272/) (2022)
- [Student-Teacher Feature Pyramid Matching for Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.04257/) (2021)
- [CFA: Coupled-hypersphere-based Feature Adaptation for Target-Oriented Anomaly Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.04325/) (2022)
- [Registration based Few-Shot Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.07361/) (2022)
- [Explainable Deep One-Class Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.01760/) (2020)
- [Catching Both Gray and Black Swans: Open-set Supervised Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.14506/) (2022)
- [Exploiting Cyclic Symmetry in Convolutional Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1602.02660/) (2016)
- [Explainable Deep Few-shot Anomaly Detection with Deviation Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.00462/) (2021)
- [Fast Haar Transforms for Graph Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.04786/) (2019)

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## Abstract (arXiv)

In the area of fewshot anomaly detection (FSAD), efficient visual feature plays an essential role in memory bank M-based methods. However, these methods do not account for the relationship between the visual feature and its rotated visual feature, drastically limiting the anomaly detection performance. To push the limits, we reveal that rotation-invariant feature property has a significant impact in industrial-based FSAD. Specifically, we utilize graph representation in FSAD and provide a novel visual isometric invariant feature (VIIF) as anomaly measurement feature. As a result, VIIF can robustly improve the anomaly discriminating ability and can further reduce the size of redundant features stored in M by a large amount. Besides, we provide a novel model GraphCore via VIIFs that can fast implement unsupervised FSAD training and can improve the performance of anomaly detection. A comprehensive evaluation is provided for comparing GraphCore and other SOTA anomaly detection models under our proposed fewshot anomaly detection setting, which shows GraphCore can increase average AUC by 5.8%, 4.1%, 3.4%, and 1.6% on MVTec AD and by 25.5%, 22.0%, 16.9%, and 14.1% on MPDD for 1, 2, 4, and 8-shot cases, respectively.