# Unsupervised Anomaly Detection and Localization of Machine Audio: A GAN-based Approach

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17949 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.17949/

## Key facts

- Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 12 of its 20 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 31 Mar 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 12 of 12)

- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1502.03167/) (2015)
- [Layer Normalization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.06450/) (2016)
- [Generative Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.00667/) (2022)
- [Improved Techniques for Training GANs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.03498/) (2016)
- [Improved Training of Wasserstein GANs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.00028/) (2017)
- [Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1511.06434/) (2015)
- [Unsupervised Anomaly Detection with Generative Adversarial Networks to Guide Marker Discovery](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.05921/) (2017)
- [GANomaly: Semi-Supervised Anomaly Detection via Adversarial Training](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.06725/) (2018)
- [ToyADMOS2: Another dataset of miniature-machine operating sounds for anomalous sound detection under domain shift conditions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.02369/) (2021)
- [MIMII DG: Sound Dataset for Malfunctioning Industrial Machine Investigation and Inspection for Domain Generalization Task](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.13879/) (2022)
- [Description and Discussion on DCASE 2022 Challenge Task 2: Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection for Machine Condition Monitoring Applying Domain Generalization Techniques](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.05876/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 9 of 9)

- [Improving Anomalous Sound Detection via Low-Rank Adaptation Fine-Tuning of Pre-Trained Audio Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.07016/) (2024)
- [ASD-Diffusion: Anomalous Sound Detection with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.15957/) (2024)
- [FISHER: A Foundation Model for Multi-Modal Industrial Signal Comprehensive Representation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.16696/) (2025)
- [CoopASD: Cooperative Machine Anomalous Sound Detection with Privacy Concerns](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.14753/) (2024)
- [An Enhanced Audio Feature Tailored for Anomalous Sound Detection Based on Pre-trained Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.15334/) (2025)
- [Noise Supervised Contrastive Learning and Feature-Perturbed for Anomalous Sound Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.13853/) (2025)
- [Contrastive Learning with Spectrum Information Augmentation in Abnormal Sound Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.15570/) (2025)
- [TLDiffGAN: A Latent Diffusion-GAN Framework with Temporal Information Fusion for Anomalous Sound Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.01060/) (2026)
- [UD-ASD: A Unified Diffusion Model for Anomalous Sound Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.12576/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Automatic detection of machine anomaly remains challenging for machine learning. We believe the capability of generative adversarial network (GAN) suits the need of machine audio anomaly detection, yet rarely has this been investigated by previous work. In this paper, we propose AEGAN-AD, a totally unsupervised approach in which the generator (also an autoencoder) is trained to reconstruct input spectrograms. It is pointed out that the denoising nature of reconstruction deprecates its capacity. Thus, the discriminator is redesigned to aid the generator during both training stage and detection stage. The performance of AEGAN-AD on the dataset of DCASE 2022 Challenge TASK 2 demonstrates the state-of-the-art result on five machine types. A novel anomaly localization method is also investigated. Source code available at: www.github.com/jianganbai/AEGAN-AD