# Reconstruction-based Out-of-Distribution Detection for Short-Range FMCW Radar

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14192 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.14192/

## Key facts

- Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 30 of its 38 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 27 Feb 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 30)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.11929/) (2020)
- [Simple and Scalable Predictive Uncertainty Estimation using Deep Ensembles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.01474/) (2016)
- [A Baseline for Detecting Misclassified and Out-of-Distribution Examples in Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1610.02136/) (2016)
- [A Simple Unified Framework for Detecting Out-of-Distribution Samples and Adversarial Attacks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.03888/) (2018)
- [Enhancing The Reliability of Out-of-distribution Image Detection in Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.02690/) (2017)
- [Energy-based Out-of-distribution Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.03759/) (2020)
- [Deep Anomaly Detection with Outlier Exposure](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.04606/) (2018)
- [Out-of-Distribution Detection with Deep Nearest Neighbors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.06507/) (2022)
- [ReAct: Out-of-distribution Detection With Rectified Activations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.12797/) (2021)
- [Generalized ODIN: Detecting Out-of-distribution Image without Learning from Out-of-distribution Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.11297/) (2020)
- [ViM: Out-Of-Distribution with Virtual-logit Matching](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.10807/) (2022)
- [Training Confidence-calibrated Classifiers for Detecting Out-of-Distribution Samples](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.09325/) (2017)
- [On the Importance of Gradients for Detecting Distributional Shifts in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.00218/) (2021)
- [VOS: Learning What You Don't Know by Virtual Outlier Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.01197/) (2022)
- [Pretrained Transformers Improve Out-of-Distribution Robustness](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.06100/) (2020)
- [Exploring the Limits of Out-of-Distribution Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.03004/) (2021)
- [MOS: Towards Scaling Out-of-distribution Detection for Large Semantic Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.01879/) (2021)
- [Why Normalizing Flows Fail to Detect Out-of-Distribution Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.08545/) (2020)
- [Likelihood Regret: An Out-of-Distribution Detection Score For Variational Auto-encoder](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.02977/) (2020)
- [Unsupervised Out-of-Distribution Detection by Maximum Classifier Discrepancy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.04951/) (2019)
- [Semantically Coherent Out-of-Distribution Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.11941/) (2021)
- [Improving Reconstruction Autoencoder Out-of-distribution Detection with Mahalanobis Distance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.02765/) (2018)
- [Full-Spectrum Out-of-Distribution Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.05306/) (2022)
- [Feature Space Singularity for Out-of-Distribution Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.14654/) (2020)
- [Stacked Generative Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.04357/) (2016)
- [OODformer: Out-Of-Distribution Detection Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.08976/) (2021)
- [Self-Supervised Out-of-Distribution Detection in Brain CT Scans](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.05428/) (2020)
- [Near out-of-distribution detection for low-resolution radar micro-Doppler signatures](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.07869/) (2022)
- [Uncertainty-based Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Robust Radar Tracking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.14532/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [HOOD: Real-Time Human Presence and Out-of-Distribution Detection Using FMCW Radar](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.02396/) (2023)
- [HAROOD: Human Activity Classification and Out-of-Distribution Detection with Short-Range FMCW Radar](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.08894/) (2023)
- [Unsupervised Time-Series Signal Analysis with Autoencoders and Vision Transformers: A Review of Architectures and Applications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.16972/) (2025)
- [FOOD: Facial Authentication and Out-of-Distribution Detection with Short-Range FMCW Radar](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.04546/) (2024)
- [FERT: Real-Time Facial Expression Recognition with Short-Range FMCW Radar](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.11619/) (2024)
- [FARE: A Deep Learning-Based Framework for Radar-based Face Recognition and Out-of-distribution Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.08440/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection recently has drawn attention due to its critical role in the safe deployment of modern neural network architectures in real-world applications. The OOD detectors aim to distinguish samples that lie outside the training distribution in order to avoid the overconfident predictions of machine learning models on OOD data. Existing detectors, which mainly rely on the logit, intermediate feature space, softmax score, or reconstruction loss, manage to produce promising results. However, most of these methods are developed for the image domain. In this study, we propose a novel reconstruction-based OOD detector to operate on the radar domain. Our method exploits an autoencoder (AE) and its latent representation to detect the OOD samples. We propose two scores incorporating the patch-based reconstruction loss and the energy value calculated from the latent representations of each patch. We achieve an AUROC of 90.72% on our dataset collected by using 60 GHz short-range FMCW Radar. The experiments demonstrate that, in terms of AUROC and AUPR, our method outperforms the baseline (AE) and the other state-of-the-art methods. Also, thanks to its model size of 641 kB, our detector is suitable for embedded usage.