Towards Realistic Industrial Anomaly Detection: MADE-Net Framework and ManuDefect-21 Benchmark

Visual anomaly detection (VAD) plays a critical role in manufacturing and quality inspection, where the scarcity of anomalous samples poses challenges for developing reliable models. Existing approaches primarily rely on unsupervised training with synthetic anomalies, which often favor specific defect types and struggle to generalize across diverse categories. To address these limitations, we propose MADE-Net (Multi-model Adaptive anomaly Detection Ensemble Network), an industrial anomaly detection framework that integrates three complementary submodels: a reconstruction-based submodel (SRAD), a feature embedding-based submodel (SFAD), and a patch discrimination submodel (LPD). A dynamic integration and selection module (ISM) adaptively determines the most suitable submodel output according to input characteristics. We further introduce ManuDefect-21, a large-scale benchmark dataset comprising 11 categories of electronic components with both normal and anomalous samples in the training and test sets. The dataset reflects realistic positive-to-negative ratios and diverse defect types encountered in real manufacturing environments, addressing several limitations of previous datasets such as MVTec-AD and VisA. Experiments conducted on ManuDefect-21 demonstrate that MADE-Net achieves consistent improvements in both detection and localization metrics (e.g., average AUROC of 98.5%, Pixel-AP of 68.7%) compared with existing methods. While MADE-Net requires pixel-level annotations for fine-tuning and introduces additional computational overhead, it provides enhanced adaptability to complex industrial conditions. The proposed framework and dataset jointly contribute to advancing practical and reproducible research in industrial anomaly detection.

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Applied Sciences
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2025-10-10
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https://doi.org/10.3390/app152010885
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Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
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Towards Realistic Industrial Anomaly Detection: MADE-Net Framework and ManuDefect-21 Benchmark

Jiuxin Cao, Chengge Duan, Junyang Yang
Applied Sciences
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
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Towards Realistic Industrial Anomaly Detection: MADE-Net Framework and ManuDefect-21 Benchmark

Jiuxin Cao, Chengge Duan, Junyang Yang
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Abstract

Visual anomaly detection (VAD) plays a critical role in manufacturing and quality inspection, where the scarcity of anomalous samples poses challenges for developing reliable models. Existing approaches primarily rely on unsupervised training with synthetic anomalies, which often favor specific defect types and struggle to generalize across diverse categories. To address these limitations, we propose MADE-Net (Multi-model Adaptive anomaly Detection Ensemble Network), an industrial anomaly detection framework that integrates three complementary submodels: a reconstruction-based submodel (SRAD), a feature embedding-based submodel (SFAD), and a patch discrimination submodel (LPD). A dynamic integration and selection module (ISM) adaptively determines the most suitable submodel output according to input characteristics. We further introduce ManuDefect-21, a large-scale benchmark dataset comprising 11 categories of electronic components with both normal and anomalous samples in the training and test sets. The dataset reflects realistic positive-to-negative ratios and diverse defect types encountered in real manufacturing environments, addressing several limitations of previous datasets such as MVTec-AD and VisA. Experiments conducted on ManuDefect-21 demonstrate that MADE-Net achieves consistent improvements in both detection and localization metrics (e.g., average AUROC of 98.5%, Pixel-AP of 68.7%) compared with existing methods. While MADE-Net requires pixel-level annotations for fine-tuning and introduces additional computational overhead, it provides enhanced adaptability to complex industrial conditions. The proposed framework and dataset jointly contribute to advancing practical and reproducible research in industrial anomaly detection.

Applied SciencesVol. 15(20)
Southeast University (CN)
Openalex Percentile: Top 85%
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
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