Mathphys-Guided Coarse-to-Fine Anomaly Synthesis with SQE-Driven Bi-Level Optimization for Anomaly Detection
Currently, industrial anomaly detection suffers from two bottlenecks: (i) the rarity of real-world defect images and (ii) the opacity of sample quality when synthetic data are used. Existing synthetic strategies overlook the underlying physical causes of defects, leading to inconsistent, low-fidelity anomalies that hamper model generalization to real-world complexities. In this paper, we introduce a novel and lightweight pipeline that generates synthetic anomalies through MathPhys model guidance of the typical defect mechanisms to produce realistic anomaly masks, refines them via a Coarse-to-Fine approach to enforce global PDE consistency (npcF) and then restores high-frequency details and improves local fidelity (npcF++) and employs a bi-level optimization strategy with a Synthesis Quality Estimator (SQE) ensuring that high-quality synthetic samples receive greater emphasis during training. Experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art results in both image-/pixel-AUROC.
Authors
- Bingke Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6429-1773)
- Jinqiao Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9118-2780)
- Yingying Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4278-8206)
- Qian Long (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8059-2936)
- Ming Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4976-3095)
Institutions
- Shandong Institute of Automation (CN)
- Institute of Automation (CN)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2026-04-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp55912.2026.11462078
- Primary Topic
- Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China