Winning Solution for the CVPR2023 Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection Challenge: Multimodal Prompting for Data-centric Anomaly Detection

This technical report introduces the winning solution of the team \textit{Segment Any Anomaly} for the CVPR2023 Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection (VAND) challenge. Going beyond uni-modal prompt, \textit{e.g.}, language prompt, we present a novel framework, \textit{i.e.}, Segment Any Anomaly + (SAA$+$), for zero-shot anomaly segmentation with multi-modal prompts for the regularization of cascaded modern foundation models. Inspired by the great zero-shot generalization ability of foundation models like Segment Anything, we first explore their assembly (SAA) to leverage diverse multi-modal prior knowledge for anomaly localization. Subsequently, we further introduce multimodal prompts (SAA$+$) derived from domain expert knowledge and target image context to enable the non-parameter adaptation of foundation models to anomaly segmentation. The proposed SAA$+$ model achieves state-of-the-art performance on several anomaly segmentation benchmarks, including VisA and MVTec-AD, in the zero-shot setting. We will release the code of our winning solution for the CVPR2023 VAND challenge at \href{Segment-Any-Anomaly}{https://github.com/caoyunkang/Segment-Any-Anomaly} \footnote{The extended-version paper with more details is available at ~\cite{cao2023segment}.}