[CFP] CVPR 2024 Workshop on Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection - 2nd Edition (VAND 2.0)

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# [CFP] CVPR 2024 Workshop on Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection - 2nd Edition (VAND 2.0)

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**Overview**

Anomaly detection, and the synonymous topics of novelty and out-of-distribution detection, represent an important and application-relevant challenge within both computer vision and the broader field of pattern recognition. In its simplest formulation, anomaly detection targets the identification of samples which deviate from an obtained approximation to the true distribution of normality for a given dataset. As such anomalies represent unexpected eventualities or outliers in the scope of a given task. The notion of detecting them effectively and efficiently has been sought after for many real-world applications including medical diagnosis, airport security screening, industrial inspection, or crowd control.

However, anomaly detection is far from a simple task due to the challenges of accounting for all forms with which an anomaly may be present. It is typically impossible for any given dataset to account for the complete anomalous variability as they represent an unbounded (open set) distribution of possible deviations from the distribution of normality. Established supervised techniques are therefore prone to suffer from heavy classification bias or over-fitting.

To these ends, we now see the rise of a complex and vibrant set of learning-based paradigms addressing the anomaly detection task - varying across both the fully/semi/un-supervised and few/one/zero shot axes of recent computer vision and pattern recognition research. This workshop brings together researchers of both industry and academia to present and discuss recent developments, opportunities and open challenges in this area. The workshop will also host an anomaly detection challenge, to encourage the development and benchmarking new algorithms for realistic yet challenging tasks.

**Call for Papers**

Our call for papers includes the following topics:

- Anomaly detection, novelty detection, and out-of-distribution detection in images and videos.
- Relevant learning paradigms including unsupervised, few-shot and active learning.
- Dataset challenges including highly imbalanced data, noisy/incomplete labels, data sampling, applications spanning vision-based industrial inspection, predictive maintenance of complex machines.
- Adjacent domains such as in-field inspection and medical diagnosis.
- Theoretical contributions that address challenges unique to anomaly detection and novelty detection.

Our workshop will accept both full papers and extended abstracts.

Full paper submissions to the workshop must be of 8 page papers, with unlimited space for references and supplementary materials, following the CVPR 2024 style and formatting guidelines. The review process is double-blind and there is no rebuttal. Submissions must not have been previously published in a substantially similar form. Accepted papers will be invited for either spotlight talks or poster presentations. Accepted papers will be published in conjunction with CVPR 2024 proceedings.

Extended abstract submissions to the workshop must be of 4 page papers, with unlimited space for references and supplementary materials, following the CVPR 2024 style and formatting guidelines. The review process is double-blind and there is no rebuttal. Submissions must not have been previously published in a substantially similar form. Accepted submissions will be invited for poster presentations. Accepted extended abstracts will NOT be published in conjunction with CVPR 2024 proceedings.

Submission site: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VAND2024/Submission/Index


**Important Dates**

- Submission deadline: March 7th, 2024
- Author notification: April 3rd, 2024
- Camera-ready deadline: April 8th, 2024
- Submission deadline for extended abstracts: April 29, 2024
- Workshop: June 17th, 2024


**Invited Speakers**

- Shai Avidan, Professor, Tel- Aviv University
- Dan Hendrycks, Director, Center for AI Safety
- Maja Rudolph, Sr. Research Scientist, Bosch
- Radu Tudor Ionescu, Professor, University of Bucharest
- Samet Ackey, Research Engineer, Intel


**Challenge**

Coming soon.


**Organizing Team**

- Thomas Brox, University of Freiburg
- Toby Breckon, Durham University
- Guansong Pang, Singapore Management University
- Yedid Hoshen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Philipp Seeböck, MedUni Wien
- Paul Bergmann
- Latha Pemula, AWS AI Labs
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