Contextual Anomaly Detection

The objective of Unsupervised Anomaly Detection is to detect previously unseen rare objects or events. Contextual Anomaly Detection is formulated such that the data contains two types of attributes, behavioral and contextual attributes. Behavioral attributes are attributes that relate directly to the process of interest whereas contextual attributes relate to exogenous but highly affecting factors in relation to the process. Generally the behavioral attributes are conditional on the contextual attributes. Source: Unsupervised Contextual Anomaly Detection using Joint Deep Variational Generative Models