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Quantum annealing has the potential to find low energy solutions of NP-hard problems that can be expressed as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems. However, the hardware of the quantum annealer manufactured by D-Wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo N. Djidjev

Image classification is a fundamental computer vision problem, and neural networks offer efficient solutions. With advancing quantum technology, quantum neural networks have gained attention. However, they work only for low-dimensional data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Mingrui Shi , Haozhen Situ , Cai Zhang

Quantum computing harnesses the principles of quantum mechanics to solve problems that are intractable for classical computers. Quantum annealing, a specialized approach within quantum computing, is particularly effective for optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Divakar Vashisth , Rodney Lessard , Tapan Mukerji

Recent studies on quantum computing algorithms focus on excavating features of quantum computers which have potential for contributing to computational model enhancements. Among various approaches, quantum annealing methods effectively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Sun Woo Park , Hyunju Lee , Byung Chun Kim , Youngho Woo , Kyungtaek Jun

Deep learning-based single-image super-resolution (SISR) technology focuses on enhancing low-resolution (LR) images into high-resolution (HR) ones. Although significant progress has been made, challenges remain in computational complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Rongchang Lu , Changyu Li , Donghang Li , Guojing Zhang , Jianqiang Huang , Xilai Li

We consider the problem of computing a sparse binary representation of an image. To be precise, given an image and an overcomplete, non-orthonormal basis, we aim to find a sparse binary vector indicating the minimal set of basis vectors…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Kyle Henke , Elijah Pelofske , Garrett Kenyon , Georg Hahn

Quantum Annealing (QA) is one of the most promising frameworks for quantum optimization. Here, we focus on the problem of minimizing complex classical cost functions associated with prototypical discrete neural networks, specifically the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Guglielmo Lami , Pietro Torta , Giuseppe E. Santoro , Mario Collura

Identifying computational tasks suitable for (future) quantum computers is an active field of research. Here we explore utilizing quantum computers for the purpose of solving differential equations. We consider two approaches: (i) basis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Benjamin Zanger , Christian B. Mendl , Martin Schulz , Martin Schreiber

The VQE algorithm has turned out to be quite expensive to run given the way we currently access quantum processors (i.e. over the cloud). In order to alleviate this issue, we introduce Quantum Sampling Regression (QSR), an alternative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Pedro Rivero , Ian C. Cloët , Zack Sullivan

Processing of digital images is continuously gaining in volume and relevance, with concomitant demands on data storage, transmission and processing power. Encoding the image information in quantum-mechanical systems instead of classical…

In the last few years, several deep learning models, especially Generative Adversarial Networks have received a lot of attention for the task of Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR). These methods focus on building an end-to-end framework,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Vibhu Bhatia , Yatender Kumar

Single image super-resolution (SISR) is the task of inferring a high-resolution image from a single low-resolution image. Recent research on super-resolution has achieved great progress due to the development of deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-22 Zhengyang Lu , Ying Chen

Quantum Transfer Learning (QTL) recently gained popularity as a hybrid quantum-classical approach for image classification tasks by efficiently combining the feature extraction capabilities of large Convolutional Neural Networks with the…

Single Image Super Resolution (SISR) is the task of producing a high resolution (HR) image from a given low-resolution (LR) image. It is a well researched problem with extensive commercial applications such as digital camera, video…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Jingwei Guan , Cheng Pan , Songnan Li , Dahai Yu

In this work, we review quantum approaches to combinatorial optimization, with the aim of bridging theoretical developments and industrial relevance. We first survey the main families of quantum algorithms, including Quantum Annealing, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Hala Hawashin , Deep Nath , Marco Alberto Javarone

Quantum annealing is a computational paradigm in which optimisation problems are mapped onto the energy landscape of an interacting quantum system and explored through its dynamical evolution. By continuously transforming a simple initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Steven Abel , Andrei Constantin , Luca A. Nutricati

In this paper we consider several algorithms for quantum computer vision using Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, and benchmark them for a real problem against their classical counterparts. Specifically, we consider two…

I describe how real quantum annealers may be used to perform local (in state space) searches around specified states, rather than the global searches traditionally implemented in the quantum annealing algorithm. Such protocols will have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-26 Nicholas Chancellor

Single image super-resolution (SISR) aims to obtain a high-resolution output from one low-resolution image. Currently, deep learning-based SISR approaches have been widely discussed in medical image processing, because of their potential to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Jin Zhu , Chuan Tan , Junwei Yang , Guang Yang , Pietro Lio'

High resolution magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is desirable in many clinical applications due to its contribution to more accurate subsequent analyses and early clinical diagnoses. Single image super resolution (SISR) is an effective and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Xiaole Zhao , Yulun Zhang , Tao Zhang , Xueming Zou