TinyGLASS: Real-Time Self-Supervised In-Sensor Anomaly Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16451v2
• Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:37:23 GMT
• Title: TinyGLASS: Real-Time Self-Supervised In-Sensor Anomaly Detection
• Abstract summary: Anomaly detection plays a key role in industrial quality control, where defects must be identified despite the scarcity of labeled faulty samples.<n>Recent self-supervised approaches, such as GLASS, learn normal visual patterns using only defect-free data and have shown strong performance on industrial benchmarks.<n>This work introduces TinyGLASS, a lightweight adaptation of the GLASS framework designed for real-time edge and in-sensor anomaly detection.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Anomaly detection plays a key role in industrial quality control, where defects must be identified despite the scarcity of labeled faulty samples. Recent self-supervised approaches, such as GLASS, learn normal visual patterns using only defect-free data and have shown strong performance on industrial benchmarks. However, their computational requirements limit the deployment on resource-constrained edge platforms, and even more so within in-sensor processing architectures. This work introduces TinyGLASS, a lightweight adaptation of the GLASS framework designed for real-time edge and in-sensor anomaly detection. The proposed architecture replaces the original WideResNet-50 backbone with a compact ResNet-18 and introduces deployment-based modifications that enable static graph tracing and INT8 quantization. We evaluated the proposed approach on the Sony IMX500 intelligent vision sensor, exploiting the in-sensor processor using the Sony Model Compression Toolkit. In addition to evaluating performance on the MVTec-AD benchmark, we investigate robustness to contaminated training data and introduce a custom industrial dataset, named MMS Dataset, for cross-device evaluation. Experimental results show that TinyGLASS achieves 8.6x parameter compression while maintaining competitive detection performance, reaching 94.2% image-level AUROC on MVTec-AD and operating at 20 FPS within the 8 MB memory constraints of the IMX500 platform. System profiling showcases low power consumption (4.0 mJ per inference), real-time end-to-end latency (20 FPS), and high energy efficiency (470 GMAC/J). Furthermore, the model demonstrates stable performance under moderate levels of training data contamination.

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