RobustA: Robust Anomaly Detection in Multimodal Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07276v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:22:33 GMT
• Title: RobustA: Robust Anomaly Detection in Multimodal Data
• Authors: Salem AlMarri, Muhammad Irzam Liaqat, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Shah Nawaz, Karthik Nandakumar, Markus Schedl,
• Abstract summary: Real-world multimodal data is often corrupted due to unforeseen environmental distortions.<n>We present the first-of-its-kind work that comprehensively investigates the adverse effects of corrupted modalities on multimodal anomaly detection task.<n>We propose a multimodal anomaly detection method, which shows notable resilience against corrupted modalities.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In recent years, multimodal anomaly detection methods have demonstrated remarkable performance improvements over video-only models. However, real-world multimodal data is often corrupted due to unforeseen environmental distortions. In this paper, we present the first-of-its-kind work that comprehensively investigates the adverse effects of corrupted modalities on multimodal anomaly detection task. To streamline this work, we propose RobustA, a carefully curated evaluation dataset to systematically observe the impacts of audio and visual corruptions on the overall effectiveness of anomaly detection systems. Furthermore, we propose a multimodal anomaly detection method, which shows notable resilience against corrupted modalities. The proposed method learns a shared representation space for different modalities and employs a dynamic weighting scheme during inference based on the estimated level of corruption. Our work represents a significant step forward in enabling the real-world application of multimodal anomaly detection, addressing situations where the likely events of modality corruptions occur. The proposed evaluation dataset with corrupted modalities and respective extracted features will be made publicly available.

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