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PaDiM: A Patch Distribution Modeling Framework for Anomaly Detection and Localization

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Defard, Thomas, Setkov, Aleksandr, Loesch, Angelique, Audigier, Romaric·2021·Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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  • PaDiM requires the batch-inverse of the multidimensional covariance tensor, which makes it challenging to scale up to larger CNNs due to the increased feature size.

    “PaDiM requires the batch-inverse of the multidimensional covariance tensor, which makes it challenging to scale up to larger CNNs due to the increased feature size.”

    From Deep Industrial Image Anomaly Detection: A Survey (2024) · cites this paper as [73]

    “Learning of the normality” (p. 3) says PaDiM estimates a covariance matrix for each patch and makes it invertible. “Ablative studies” (pp. 4–5) says larger embedding vectors increase computational and memory complexity. The copy does not say that PaDiM requires a batch-inverse operation or that this makes scaling to larger CNNs challenging; “Scalability gain” (p. 6) instead describes choosing the backbone and embedding size to fit resource limits. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • PatchCore, SPADE, and PaDim conduct an ablation study on 16 normal training samples.

    “PatchCore [68] , SPADE [63] and PaDim [73] conduct the ablation study on 16 normal training samples.”

    From Deep Industrial Image Anomaly Detection: A Survey (2024) · cites this paper as [73]

    The 'Ablative studies' section (pp. 4–5) reports ablations of PaDiM’s semantic-level correlations and dimensionality reduction. It does not report an ablation using 16 normal training samples. The paper evaluates SPADE as a comparator but does not establish that SPADE or PatchCore conducted the claimed 16-sample ablation. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Existing unsupervised anomaly detection methods train separate models for different object classes.

    “Despite the rapid advance of unsupervised anomaly detection, existing methods require to train separate models for different objects.”

    From A Unified Model for Multi-Class Anomaly Detection (2022) · cites this paper as [11]

    The Experimental setups section (p. 4) says the paper's VAE baseline is trained on each MVTec AD class, supporting class-specific training as an example. But the Scalability gain section (p. 6) says SPADE requires no training, so the paper does not support the broader claim that existing methods generally require separate models for different objects. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • Feature-based approaches commonly employ networks pre-trained on ImageNet to map original images into a more distinguishable feature space, with low training costs and outstanding performance.

    “Feature-based approaches [17,18,19] commonly employ networks pre-trained on ImageNet [20] to map original images into a more distinguishable feature space. These methods are typically characterized by low training costs and outstanding performance.”
  • Aggregation of multiple feature hierarchies offers some benefit.

    “Empirically and similar to [10] and [14], we found aggregation of multiple feature hierarchies to offer some benefit.”

    From Towards Total Recall in Industrial Anomaly Detection (2022) · cites this paper as [14]

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Authors
Defard, T., Setkov, A., Loesch, A., & Audigier, R.
Affiliations
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
Corresponding author
Setkov, Aleksandr
Venue
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Published
2021
Volume
12664
Pages
475-489
ISSN
  • 0302-9743 (ISSN-L)
  • 1611-3349
OpenAlex
W3099658315
Cited by
1,415
References
32
Citations by year
2026: 325 · 2025: 391 · 2024: 367 · 2023: 217 · 2022: 88 · 2021: 27
FWCI
80.73
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • Lecture notes in computer science (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering › Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
Keywords
anomaly detection, anomaly localization, one-class learning, multivariate normal distribution, patch embedding, pre-trained convolutional neural networks, MVTec AD

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