Authors:
Muhammad Asad
1
;
2
;
Ihsan Ullah
1
;
2
;
Ganesh Sistu
3
and
Michael Madden
1
;
2
Affiliations:
1
Machine Learning Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland
;
2
Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway, Ireland
;
3
Valeo Vision Systems, Tuam, Ireland
Keyword(s):
Anomaly Detection, Adversarial Auto-Encoders, Reconstruction, Discriminator, Distribution.
Abstract:
In novelty detection, the goal is to decide if a new data point should be categorized as an inlier or an outlier, given a training dataset that primarily captures the inlier distribution. Recent approaches typically use deep encoder and decoder network frameworks to derive a reconstruction error, and employ this error either to determine a novelty score, or as the basis for a one-class classifier. In this research, we use a similar framework but with a lightweight deep network, and we adopt a probabilistic score with reconstruction error. Our methodology calculates the probability of whether the sample comes from the inlier distribution or not. This work makes two key contributions. The first is that we compute the novelty probability by linearizing the manifold that holds the structure of the inlier distribution. This allows us to interpret how the probability is distributed and can be determined in relation to the local coordinates of the manifold tangent space. The second contribu
tion is that we improve the training protocol for the network. Our results indicate that our approach is effective at learning the target class, and it outperforms recent state-of-the-art methods on several benchmark datasets.
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