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In this study, we investigate a simple quantum pre-processing filter kernel designed with only two CNOT gates for image feature extraction. We examine the impact of these filters when combined with a classical neural network for image…

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Automated and robust portrait quality assessment (PQA) is of paramount importance in high-impact applications such as smartphone photography. This paper presents FHIQA, a learning-based approach to PQA that introduces a simple but effective…

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Image Quality Assessment (IQA) models are employed in many practical image and video processing pipelines to reduce storage, minimize transmission costs, and improve the Quality of Experience (QoE) of millions of viewers. These models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Krishna Srikar Durbha , Asvin Kumar Venkataramanan , Rajesh Sureddi , Alan C. Bovik

The taxonomic composition and abundance of phytoplankton, having direct impact on marine ecosystem dynamic and global environment change, are listed as essential ocean variables. Phytoplankton classification is very crucial for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Shangshang Shi , Zhimin Wang , Ruimin Shang , Yanan Li , Jiaxin Li , Guoqiang Zhong , Yongjian Gu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires models to reason over multimodal information, combining visual and textual data. With the development of continual learning, significant progress has been made in retaining knowledge and adapting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhifei Li , Yiran Wang , Chenyi Xiong , Yujing Xia , Xiaoju Hou , Yue Zhao , Miao Zhang , Kui Xiao , Bing Yang

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) are a broad class of algorithms with many applications in science and industry. Applying a VQA to a problem involves optimizing a parameterized quantum circuit by maximizing or minimizing a cost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Tianyi Hao , Zichang He , Ruslan Shaydulin , Marco Pistoia , Swamit Tannu

High accuracy medical image classification can be limited by the costs of acquiring more data as well as the time and expertise needed to label existing images. In this paper, we apply active learning to medical image classification, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Emma Slade , Kim M. Branson

One of the fundamental tasks in machine learning is image classification, which serves as a key benchmark for validating algorithm performance and practical potential. However, effectively processing high-dimensional, detail-rich images, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Chenghua Duan , Xiuxing Li , Wending Zhao , Lin Yao , Qing Li , Ziyu Li , Fukang Li , Junhao Ma , Xia Wu

Quantum computing is an emerging field that utilizes the unique principles of quantum mechanics to offer significant advantages in algorithm execution over classical approaches. This potential is particularly promising in the domain of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Anja Heim , Thomas Lang , Alexander Gall , Eduard Gröller , Christoph Heinzl

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) provide a promising approach to achieving quantum advantage for practical problems on near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. Thus far, most studies on VQAs have focused on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Yutaro Enomoto , Keitaro Anai , Kenta Udagawa , Shuntaro Takeda

Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) are a promising variational learning paradigm with applications to near-term quantum processors, however they still face some significant challenges. One such challenge is finding good parameter initialization…

Current quantum computers require algorithms that use limited resources economically. In quantum machine learning, success hinges on quantum feature maps, which embed classical data into the state space of qubits. We introduce Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jonas Jäger , Philipp Elsässer , Elham Torabian

We propose a probabilistic quantum algorithm that decides whether a monochrome picture matches a given template (or one out of a set of templates). As a major advantage to classical pattern recognition, the algorithm just requires a few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Gernot Schaller , Ralf Schützhold

Classification is a central task in deep learning algorithms. Usually, images are first captured and then processed by a sequence of operations, of which the artificial neuron represents one of the fundamental units. This paradigm requires…

Imaging with quantum states of light promises advantages over classical approaches in terms of resolution, signal-to-noise ratio and sensitivity. However, quantum detectors are particularly sensitive sources of classical noise that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Hugo Defienne , Matthew Reichert , Jason W Fleischer , Daniele Faccio

Image recognition is one of the primary applications of machine learning algorithms. Nevertheless, machine learning models used in modern image recognition systems consist of millions of parameters that usually require significant…

This paper proposes a novel quantum pre-processing filter (QPF) to improve the image classification accuracy of neural network (NN) models. A simple four qubit quantum circuit that uses Y rotation gates for encoding and two controlled NOT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Farina Riaz , Shahab Abdulla , Hajime Suzuki , Srinjoy Ganguly , Ravinesh C. Deo , Susan Hopkins

This study presents a dynamic Quantum-Inspired Genetic Algorithm (D-QIGA) for feature selection, leveraging quantum principles like superposition and rotation gates to enhance exploration and exploitation. D-QIGA introduces adaptive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Akhilesh Kumar Singh , Kirankumar R. Hiremath

Quantum annealers provide an effective framework for solving large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. This work presents a novel methodology for training Variational Quantum Algorithms (VQAs) by reformulating the parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ernesto Acosta , Guillermo Botella , Carlos Cano

Non-local operations play a crucial role in computer vision enabling the capture of long-range dependencies through weighted sums of features across the input, surpassing the constraints of traditional convolution operations that focus…

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