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Anomaly detection through latent space restoration using vector-quantized variational autoencoders

Marimont, S. N. & Tarroni, G. ORCID: 0000-0002-0341-6138 (2021). Anomaly detection through latent space restoration using vector-quantized variational autoencoders. In: 2021 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). IEEE ISBI 2021, 13-16 Apr 2021, Nice, France. doi: 10.1109/ISBI48211.2021.9433778

Abstract

We propose an out-of-distribution detection method that combines density and restoration-based approaches using Vector-Quantized Variational Auto-Encoders (VQ-VAEs). The VQ-VAE model learns to encode images in a categorical latent space. The prior distribution of latent codes is then modelled using an Auto-Regressive (AR) model. We found that the prior probability estimated by the AR model can be useful for unsupervised anomaly detection and enables the estimation of both sample and pixel-wise anomaly scores. The sample-wise score is defined as the negative log-likelihood of the latent variables above a threshold selecting highly unlikely codes. Additionally, out-of-distribution images are restored into in-distribution images by replacing unlikely latent codes with samples from the prior model and decoding to pixel space. The average L1 distance between generated restorations and original image is used as pixel-wise anomaly score. We tested our approach on the MOOD challenge datasets, and report higher accuracies compared to a standard reconstruction-based approach with VAEs.

Publication Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
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Publisher Keywords: Unsupervised anomaly detection, out-of-distribution, VAE, Vector Quantized-VAE
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Departments: School of Science & Technology > Computer Science
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