Fine-grained anomaly detection via multi-task self-supervision

Loïc Jezequel, Ngoc-Son Vu, Jean Beaudet, Aymeric Histace

Abstract: Detecting anomalies using deep learning has become a major challenge over the last years, and is becoming increasingly promising in several fields. The introduction of self-supervised learning has greatly helped many methods including anomaly detection where simple geometric transformation recognition tasks are used. However these methods do not perform well on fine-grained problems since they lack finer features. By combining both high-scale shape features and low-scale fine features in a multi-task framework, our method greatly improves fine-grained anomaly detection. It outperforms state-of-the-art with up to 31% relative error reduction measured with AUROC on various anomaly detection problems including one-vs-all, out-of-distribution detection and face presentation attack detection.