Quantum computation, which exploits quantum parallelism, is in principle faster than a classical computer for certain problems.[1] Quantum image is encoding the image information in quantum-mechanical systems instead of classical ones and replacing classical with quantum information processing may alleviate some of these challenges.[2]
Humans obtain most of their information through their eyes. Accordingly, the analysis of visual data is one of the most important functions of our brain and it has evolved high efficiency in processing visual data. Currently, visual information like images and videos constitutes the largest part of data traffic in the internet. Processing of this information requires ever-larger computational power.[3]
The laws of quantum mechanics allow one to reduce the required resources for some tasks by many orders of magnitude if the image data are encoded in the quantum state of a suitable physical system.[4] The researchers discuss a suitable method for encoding image data, and develop a new quantum algorithm that can detect boundaries among parts of an image with a single logical operation. This edge-detection operation is independent of the size of the image. Several other algorithms are also discussed. It is theoretically and experimentally demonstrated that they work in practice. This is the first experiment to demonstrate practical quantum image processing. It contributes a substantial progress towards both theoretical and experimental quantum computing for image processing, it will stimulate future studies in the field of quantum information processing of visual data.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Lloyd, Seth (23 August 1996). "Universal Quantum Simulators". Science. 273 (5278). American Association for the Advancement of Science: 1073–1078. Bibcode:1996Sci...273.1073L. doi:10.1126/science.273.5278.1073. eISSN 1095-9203. ISSN 0036-8075. LCCN 17024346. OCLC 1644869. PMID 8688088. S2CID 43496899.
- ^ Sasaki, Masahide; Carlini, Alberto; Jozsa, Richard (17 July 2001). "Quantum template matching". Physical Review A. 64 (2). American Physical Society: 22317. arXiv:quant-ph/0102020. Bibcode:2001PhRvA..64b2317S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.64.022317. eISSN 1094-1622. ISSN 1050-2947. OCLC 21266025. S2CID 43413485.
- ^ Gonzalez, Rafael C.; Woods, Richard E. (30 March 2017). Digital Image Processing (4th ed.). Pearson. ISBN 978-0133356724. OCLC 987436552.
- ^ Yao, Xi-Wei; Wang, Hengyan; Liao, Zeyang; Chen, Ming-Cheng; Pan, Jian; et al. (11 September 2017). "Quantum Image Processing and Its Application to Edge Detection: Theory and Experiment". Physical Review X. 7 (3). American Physical Society: 31041. arXiv:1801.01465. Bibcode:2017PhRvX...7c1041Y. doi:10.1103/physrevx.7.031041. ISSN 2160-3308. LCCN 2011201149. OCLC 706478714. S2CID 119205332.