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Skip-GANomaly: Skip Connected and Adversarially Trained Encoder-Decoder Anomaly Detection

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Amir Atapour AbarghoueiORCiD

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Abstract

Despite inherent ill-definition, anomaly detection is a research endeavour of great interest within machine learning and visual scene understanding alike. Most commonly, anomaly detection is considered as the detection of outliers within a given data distribution based on some measure of normality. The most significant challenge in real-world anomaly detection problems is that available data is highly imbalanced towards normality (i.e. non-anomalous) and contains at most a sub-set of all possible anomalous samples - hence limiting the use of well-established supervised learning methods. By contrast, we introduce an unsupervised anomaly detection model, trained only on the normal (non-anomalous, plentiful) samples in order to learn the normality distribution of the domain, and hence detect abnormality based on deviation from this model. Our proposed approach employs an encoder-decoder convolutional neural network with skip connections to thoroughly capture the multi-scale distribution of the normal data distribution in image space. Furthermore, utilizing an adversarial training scheme for this chosen architecture provides superior reconstruction both within image space and a lower-dimensional embedding vector space encoding. Minimizing the reconstruction error metric within both the image and hidden vector spaces during training aids the model to learn the distribution of normality as required. Higher reconstruction metrics during subsequent test and deployment are thus indicative of a deviation from this normal distribution, hence indicative of an anomaly. Experimentation over established anomaly detection benchmarks and challenging real-world datasets, within the context of X-ray security screening, shows the unique promise of such a proposed approach.


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Author(s): Akcay S, Atapour-Abarghouei A, Breckon TP

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2019)

Year of Conference: 2019

Online publication date: 30/09/2019

Acceptance date: 07/03/2019

Date deposited: 06/02/2021

ISSN: 2161-4407

Publisher: IEEE

URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2019.8851808

DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2019.8851808

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

ISBN: 9781728119854


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