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Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications

Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications is a research topic within Artificial Intelligence. Science Explorer counts 55k research works in it since 1950. 22.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the detection of anomalies in high-dimensional data, particularly in the context of video analysis, surveillance, and time series data. It covers a wide range of techniques including unsupervised learning, outlier detection, deep learning, and novelty detection for identifying abnormal patterns and events.

  • Anomaly Detection
  • Unsupervised
  • Outlier Detection
  • Deep Learning
  • High-Dimensional Data
  • Video Analysis
  • Neural Networks
  • Novelty Detection
  • Surveillance
  • Time Series
Research works
55k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
12k
per year above
Top-10% rate
22.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+171%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (8.6k and 3.4k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 8.6k works
  2. 2 India 3.4k works
  3. 3 United States 2.6k works
  4. 4 South Korea 686 works
  5. 5 Germany 677 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 603 works
  7. 7 Italy 526 works
  8. 8 Japan 517 works
  9. 9 Canada 430 works
  10. 10 France 428 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 46.8%India: 18.2%United States: 13.9%South Korea: 3.7%6 others listed: 17.3%47%largest
China8,614 · 46.8%India3,351 · 18.2%United States2,561 · 13.9%South Korea686 · 3.7%6 others listed3,181 · 17.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Tsinghua University publishes the most Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications research, followed by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and National University of Defense Technology.

Who are the leading researchers in Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications include Andrew Zisserman, Li Fei-Fei and Yoshua Bengio.

  1. 1 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom 25k citations
  2. 2 Li Fei-Fei United States 17k citations
  3. 3 Yoshua Bengio Canada 17k citations
  4. 4 Serge Belongie United States 14k citations
  5. 5 Xiaogang Wang Russia 13k citations
  6. 6 Jitendra Malik United States 12k citations
  7. 7 Deva Ramanan United States 11k citations
  8. 8 Wei Liu China 9.7k citations
  9. 9 Luc Van Gool Switzerland 8.5k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications research done?

The largest centres of Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vijayawada.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 1.7k works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 566 works
  3. 3 Xi'an China 528 works
  4. 4 Nanjing China 474 works
  5. 5 Chennai India 427 works
  6. 6 Wuhan China 383 works
  7. 7 Guangzhou China 358 works
  8. 8 Chengdu China 353 works
  9. 9 Seoul South Korea 328 works
  10. 10 Hangzhou China 319 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VijayawadaIN · 69.6 works6.3×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications?

Among universities, judged by research, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Air University and Singapore Management University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%60%mean 36.4%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: 13, 42.1%Air University: 15, 45.0%Singapore Management University: 17, 41.2%Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications: 125, 17.0%King Abdulaziz University: 29, 48.7%Sejong University: 20, 45.7%North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University: 13, 47.0%Beihang University: 117, 30.0%Vellore Institute of Technology University: 111, 19.3%Xidian University: 96, 28.0%Air UniversityMohamed bin Zayed Un…Singapore Management…Beijing University o…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceUnited Arab Emirates 67.142.1%13.4×13
2 Air UniversityPakistan 65.845.0%10.8×15
3 Singapore Management UniversitySingapore 65.141.2%6.5×17 +201.0%
4 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 64.417.0%8.5×125 +161.6%
5 King Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 63.348.7%2.2×29 +242.6%
6 Sejong UniversitySouth Korea 63.345.7%4.5×20 +309.7%
7 North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State UniversityUnited States 58.347.0%6.5×13 +127.3%
8 Beihang UniversityChina 57.730.0%4.4×117 +92.0%
9 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 57.319.3%4.7×111 +623.2%
10 Xidian UniversityChina 57.028.0%5.5×96 +84.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 171% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.