ROADS: Robust Prompt-Driven Multi-Class Anomaly Detection under Domain Shift

Hossein Kashiani, Niloufar Alipour Talemi, Fatemeh Afghah; Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025, pp. 7897-7906

Recent advancements in anomaly detection have shifted focus towards Multi-class Unified Anomaly Detection (MUAD) offering more scalable and practical alternatives compared to traditional one-class-one-model approaches. However existing MUAD methods often suffer from inter-class interference and are highly susceptible to domain shifts leading to substantial performance degradation in real-world applications. In this paper we propose a novel robust prompt-driven MUAD framework called ROADS to address these challenges. ROADS employs a hierarchical class-aware prompt integration mechanism that dynamically encodes class-specific information into our anomaly detector to mitigate interference among anomaly classes. Additionally ROADS incorporates a domain adapter to enhance robustness against domain shifts by learning domain-invariant representations. Extensive experiments on MVTec-AD and VISA datasets demonstrate that ROADS surpasses state-of-the-art methods in both anomaly detection and localization with notable improvements in out-of-distribution settings.