“…We need a unified anomaly detection criterion, and we shall see that the a-contrario framework, introduced in Section 3.1, gives one. [38,60,80,105,126,137,141,142] Locally Homogeneous [25,48,51,57,63,67,68,85,88,117,120] Sparsity based [1,9,19,20,31,45,77,78,89,152] Non-local self-similar NL-means inspired [10,33,102,125,132,153] Kernel PCA [62] Diffusion maps [8,29,53,84,95,96,106] 3 Estimating a number of false alarms for all compared methods…”