Introducing Fast Fourier Convolutions into Anomaly Detection

Anomaly detection is inherently challenging, as anomalies typically emerge only at test time. While reconstruction-based methods are popular, their reliance on CNN backbones with local receptive fields limits discrimination and precise localization. We propose FFC-AD, a reconstruction framework using Fourier Feature Convolutions (FFCs) to capture global information early, and we introduce Hidden Space Anomaly Simulation (HSAS), a latent-space regularization strategy that mitigates overgeneralization. Experiments on MVTec AD and VisA demonstrate that FFC-AD significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both detection and segmentation accuracy.