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Anomaly Detection, Multimodal Learning, Industrial Inspection
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Education and qualifications (2)

Huazhong University of Science and Technology: Wuhan, Hubei, CN

2020-09-01 to present | Ph.D Candidate (School of Mechanical Science and Engineering)
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Yunkang Cao

Huazhong University of Science and Technology: Wuhan, CN

2016-09-01 to 2020-06-30 | Bachelor (School of Mechanical Science and Engineering)
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Yunkang Cao

Works (18)

AdaCLIP: Adapting CLIP with Hybrid Learnable Prompts for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection

2025 | Book chapter
Contributors: Yunkang Cao; Jiangning Zhang; Luca Frittoli; Yuqi Cheng; Weiming Shen; Giacomo Boracchi
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Boosting Global-Local Feature Matching via Anomaly Synthesis for Multi-Class Point Cloud Anomaly Detection

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
2025 | Journal article
Contributors: Yuqi Cheng; Yunkang Cao; Dongfang Wang; Weiming Shen; Wenlong Li
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LogiCode: An LLM-Driven Framework for Logical Anomaly Detection

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
2025 | Journal article
Contributors: Yiheng Zhang; Yunkang Cao; Xiaohao Xu; Weiming Shen
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Personalizing Vision-Language Models With Hybrid Prompts for Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
2025 | Journal article
Contributors: Yunkang Cao; Xiaohao Xu; Yuqi Cheng; Chen Sun; Zongwei Du; Liang Gao; Weiming Shen
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VarAD: Lightweight High-Resolution Image Anomaly Detection via Visual Autoregressive Modeling

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
2025 | Journal article
Contributors: Yunkang Cao; Haiming Yao; Wei Luo; Weiming Shen
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BiaS: Incorporating Biased Knowledge to Boost Unsupervised Image Anomaly Localization

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Yunkang Cao; Xiaohao Xu; Chen Sun; Liang Gao; Weiming Shen
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Deep Feature Contrasting for Industrial Image Anomaly Segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Qian Wan; Yunkang Cao; Liang Gao; Xinyu Li; Yiping Gao
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Prior Normality Prompt Transformer for Multiclass Industrial Image Anomaly Detection

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Haiming Yao; Yunkang Cao; Wei Luo; Weihang Zhang; Wenyong Yu; Weiming Shen
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Complementary pseudo multimodal feature for point cloud anomaly detection

Pattern Recognition
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Yunkang Cao; Xiaohao Xu; Weiming Shen
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Dual-path Frequency Discriminators for few-shot anomaly detection

Knowledge-Based Systems
2024-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Yuhu Bai; Jiangning Zhang; Zhaofeng Chen; Yuhang Dong; Yunkang Cao; Guanzhong Tian
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Generative Denoise Distillation: Simple stochastic noises induce efficient knowledge transfer for dense prediction

Knowledge-Based Systems
2024-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Zhaoge Liu; Xiaohao Xu; Yunkang Cao; Weiming Shen
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2nd Place Winning Solution for the CVPR2023 Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection Challenge: Multimodal Prompting for Data-centric Anomaly Detection

ArXiv
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Cao, Yunkang; Xu, Xiaohao; Sun, Chen; Cheng, Yuqi; Gao, Liang; Shen, Weiming
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Collaborative Discrepancy Optimization for Reliable Image Anomaly Localization

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Yunkang Cao; Xiaohao Xu; Zhaoge Liu; Weiming Shen
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GON: End-to-end optimization framework for constraint graph optimization problems

Knowledge-Based Systems
2022-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Chuan Liu; Jingwei Wang; Yunkang Cao; Min Liu; Weiming Shen
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Position Encoding Enhanced Feature Mapping for Image Anomaly Detection

2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
2022-08-20 | Conference paper
Contributors: Qian Wan; Yunkang Cao; Liang Gao; Weiming Shen; Xinyu Li
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Informative knowledge distillation for image anomaly segmentation

Knowledge-Based Systems
2022-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Yunkang Cao; Qian Wan; Weiming Shen; Liang Gao
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An Outlier-Aware Method for UWB Indoor Positioning in NLoS Situations

2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD)
2022-05-04 | Conference paper
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Semi-supervised Knowledge Distillation for Tiny Defect Detection

2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD)
2022-05-04 | Conference paper
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Peer review (30 reviews for 9 publications/grants)

Review activity for Engineering applications of artificial intelligence. (3)
Review activity for IEEE sensors journal. (2)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on automation science and engineering. (2)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology. (3)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on industrial informatics. (8)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering. (1)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems. (8)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics. (1)
Review activity for IET collaborative intelligent manufacturing (2)