CAD 100K: A Comprehensive Multi-Task Dataset for Car Related Visual Anomaly Detection
arXiv cs.CV / 4/13/2026
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Key Points
- The paper introduces CAD Dataset, a large-scale benchmark for car-related multi-task visual anomaly detection with over 100K images across 7 vehicle domains and 3 tasks.
- It is positioned as the first car-related anomaly dataset specifically specialized for multi-task learning (MTL) evaluation, aiming to overcome the lack of unified benchmarks.
- The dataset includes synthesis-based data augmentation to better support few-shot anomaly image scenarios.
- The authors provide a multi-task baseline and extensive empirical studies showing MTL can improve knowledge transfer and task interaction, while also revealing potential task conflicts.
- CAD is intended to serve as a standardized research platform to accelerate future advances in multi-task anomaly detection for automotive manufacturing quality assessment.
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