# LARAD: Layout-Aware Road Anomaly Detection via Spatial-Logic Reasoning

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12858 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.12858/

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- First posted on arXiv 14 Jul 2026.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

Accurate open-world obstacle detection is critical for autonomous driving. Current anomaly segmentation methods suffer from a fundamental blind spot: they over-rely on texture novelty to identify out-of-distribution (OoD) objects while ignoring contextual spatial logic. Furthermore, mitigating the resulting false positives often requires cascading massive vision models, introducing unacceptable inference latency. To address these issues, we propose Layout-Aware Road Anomaly Detection (LARAD), shifting the paradigm from appearance matching to spatial-logic reasoning. First, we introduce the Spatial-Logic Violation Synthesis (SLVS) pipeline, which generates training samples that are texture-consistent yet spatially invalid, forcing the model to learn contextual violations. Second, we augment a standard closed-set segmentation network with a lightweight, OoD-guided attention branch. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LARAD significantly enhances robustness against logical anomalies and establishes a new state-of-the-art, all while retaining the high efficiency of a single-model architecture.