Universal Transformation of One-Class Classifiers for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13091v1
• Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:54:12 GMT
• Title: Universal Transformation of One-Class Classifiers for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
• Authors: Declan McIntosh, Alexandra Branzan Albu,
• Abstract summary: Anomaly detection is typically formulated as a one-class classification problem.<n>We present a dataset folding method that transforms an arbitrary one-class classifier-based anomaly detector into a fully unsupervised method.
• Score: 51.73001988341294
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Detecting anomalies in images and video is an essential task for multiple real-world problems, including industrial inspection, computer-assisted diagnosis, and environmental monitoring. Anomaly detection is typically formulated as a one-class classification problem, where the training data consists solely of nominal values, leaving methods built on this assumption susceptible to training label noise. We present a dataset folding method that transforms an arbitrary one-class classifier-based anomaly detector into a fully unsupervised method. This is achieved by making a set of key weak assumptions: that anomalies are uncommon in the training dataset and generally heterogeneous. These assumptions enable us to utilize multiple independently trained instances of a one-class classifier to filter the training dataset for anomalies. This transformation requires no modifications to the underlying anomaly detector; the only changes are algorithmically selected data subsets used for training. We demonstrate that our method can transform a wide variety of one-class classifier anomaly detectors for both images and videos into unsupervised ones. Our method creates the first unsupervised logical anomaly detectors by transforming existing methods. We also demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance for unsupervised anomaly detection on the MVTec AD, ViSA, and MVTec Loco AD datasets. As improvements to one-class classifiers are made, our method directly transfers those improvements to the unsupervised domain, linking the domains.

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