# URA-Net: Uncertainty-Integrated Anomaly Perception and Restoration Attention Network for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22840 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.22840/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 38 of its 69 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 24 Mar 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 38)

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## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [SGANet: Semantic and Geometric Alignment for Multimodal Multi-view Anomaly Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.05632/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Unsupervised anomaly detection plays a pivotal role in industrial defect inspection and medical image analysis, with most methods relying on the reconstruction framework. However, these methods may suffer from over-generalization, enabling them to reconstruct anomalies well, which leads to poor detection performance. To address this issue, instead of focusing solely on normality reconstruction, we propose an innovative Uncertainty-Integrated Anomaly Perception and Restoration Attention Network (URA-Net), which explicitly restores abnormal patterns to their corresponding normality. First, unlike traditional image reconstruction methods, we utilize a pre-trained convolutional neural network to extract multi-level semantic features as the reconstruction target. To assist the URA-Net learning to restore anomalies, we introduce a novel feature-level artificial anomaly synthesis module to generate anomalous samples for training. Subsequently, a novel uncertainty-integrated anomaly perception module based on Bayesian neural networks is introduced to learn the distributions of anomalous and normal features. This facilitates the estimation of anomalous regions and ambiguous boundaries, laying the foundation for subsequent anomaly restoration. Then, we propose a novel restoration attention mechanism that leverages global normal semantic information to restore detected anomalous regions, thereby obtaining defect-free restored features. Finally, we employ residual maps between input features and restored features for anomaly detection and localization. The comprehensive experimental results on two industrial datasets, MVTec AD and BTAD, along with a medical image dataset, OCT-2017, unequivocally demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.