Explainable Visual Anomaly Detection via Concept Bottleneck Models
Paper • 2511.20088 • Published
Concept-annotated version of MVTec AD, including generated anomalies.
<category>/
├── train/
├── test/
├── ground_truth/
├── generated_anomalies/
└── concepts/
├── <category>_dataset.csv # concepts extracted on real images
├── <category>_dataset_gen.csv # concepts extracted on generated images
└── <category>_dataset_gen_to_real.csv # concepts extracted on generated images and annotated on real ones (semi-supevised training and evaluation of unsupervised)
CSV paths are relative to the CSV's own folder.
Download the dataset with the Hugging Face CLI:
hf download aristrops/mvtec-concepts --repo-type dataset --local-dir mvtec-concepts
To download a single category only:
hf download aristrops/mvtec-concepts --repo-type dataset --local-dir mvtec-concepts --include "bottle/*"
If you use this dataset in a scientific work, please cite:
Paul Bergmann, Michael Fauser, David Sattlegger, and Carsten Steger, "A Comprehensive Real-World Dataset for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2019
Arianna Stropeni, Valentina Zaccaria, Francesco Borsatti, Davide Dalle Pezze, Manuel Barusco, and Gian Antonio Susto, "Explainable Visual Anomaly Detection via Concept Bottleneck Models." arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.20088, 2025.