2021

Generalized Out-of-Distribution Detection: A Survey

Yang, Jingkang, Zhou, Kaiyang, Li, Yixuan et al.

Understand

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is critical to ensuring the reliability and safety of machine learning systems.

  • For instance, in autonomous driving, we would like the driving system to issue an alert and hand over the control to humans when it detects unusual scenes or objects that it has never seen during training time and cannot make a safe decision.
  • The term, OOD detection, first emerged in 2017 and since then has received increasing attention from the research community, leading to a plethora of methods developed, ranging from classification-based to density-based to distance-based ones.
  • Meanwhile, several other problems, including anomaly detection (AD), novelty detection (ND), open set recognition (OSR), and outlier detection (OD), are closely related to OOD detection in terms of motivation and methodology.

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