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Crash-Test Curve Anomaly Detection via Multi-View Context Augmentation

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: In automotive crash testing, trustworthy crash-test curves are essential for reliable crashworthiness assessment, yet automated anomaly detection is difficult due to limited labeled abnormal cases, event-level data scarcity, and distribution shifts across vehicle models and sensor configurations. This paper proposes MVCA-AD (Multi-View Context Augmentation for Anomaly Detection) for single-channel crash-test curves. MVCA-AD generates multiple context-rich views using deterministic time- and frequency-domain transformations to amplify subtle anomalous patterns under limited labeled supervision. A trend-aware modulation module and cross-view attention fuse these views to improve sensitivity to critical segments such as impact spikes and gradual transitions while remaining robust to noise. Experiments on three subsets derived from physical full-scale crash tests show that MVCA-AD improves Precision, Recall, F1-score, and area under the ROC curve (AUC) over strong baselines and achieves stable performance under event-level grouped evaluation across heterogeneous head and B-pillar crash-test signals. The proposed approach supports crash-test data quality control by automatically identifying abnormal curves for downstream crashworthiness assessment workflows.

Source: Sensors

DOI: 10.3390/s26113298

Authors: Chang Zhou, Boqin Zhang, Zhao Liu, Ping Zhu

Institution: Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Language: English

Topic: Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,137

Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China