SAGAN: Skip-Attention GAN For Anomaly Detection

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been used recently for anomaly detection from images, where the anomaly scores are obtained by comparing the global difference between the input and generated image. However, the anomalies often appear in local areas of an image scene, and ignoring such information can lead to unreliable detection of anomalies. In this paper, we propose an efficient anomaly detection network Skip-Attention GAN (SAGAN), which adds attention modules to capture local information to improve the accuracy of latent representation of images, and uses depth-wise separable convolutions to reduce the number of parameters in the model. We evaluate the proposed method on the CIFAR-10 dataset and the LBOT dataset (built by ourselves), and show that the performance of our method in terms of area under curve (AUC) on both datasets is improved by more than 10% on average, as compared with three recent baseline methods.