학술논문

OneFlow: One-Class Flow for Anomaly Detection Based on a Minimal Volume Region
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on. 44(11):8508-8519 Nov, 2022
Subject
Computing and Processing
Bioengineering
Anomaly detection
Support vector machines
Solid modeling
Neural networks
Three-dimensional displays
Data models
Training
outlier detection
normalizing flows
Language
ISSN
0162-8828
2160-9292
1939-3539
Abstract
We propose OneFlow – a flow-based one-class classifier for anomaly (outlier) detection that finds a minimal volume bounding region. Contrary to density-based methods, OneFlow is constructed in such a way that its result typically does not depend on the structure of outliers. This is caused by the fact that during training the gradient of the cost function is propagated only over the points located near to the decision boundary (behavior similar to the support vectors in SVM). The combination of flow models and a Bernstein quantile estimator allows OneFlow to find a parametric form of bounding region, which can be useful in various applications including describing shapes from 3D point clouds. Experiments show that the proposed model outperforms related methods on real-world anomaly detection problems.