IET Image Processing (Nov 2022)

A dual quantum image feature extraction method: PSQIFE

  • Jie Su,
  • Shuhan Lu,
  • Lin Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1049/ipr2.12561
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 13
pp. 3529 – 3543

Abstract

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Abstract In digital image processing, feature extraction occupies a very important position, which is related to the effect of image classification or recognition. At present, effective quantum feature extraction methods are relatively lacking. And the current feature extraction methods are mainly devoted to the extraction of basic features of images, failing to consider the global features of classical images and the global features of quantum images comprehensively. In this paper, we propose a dual quantum image feature extraction method named PSQIFE, which focuses on the global energy representation of images by constructing dual quantum image global features. The representation of the global features of the dual quantum image is obtained by quantum superposition of two parts of quantum state features. In this paper, quantum image reconstruction and quantum image fidelity tests are performed on the extracted global features by 9 classes of classical images, and the overall fidelity is above 95%. In addition, the effectiveness of PSQIFE dual quantum image feature extraction method is verified by comparing the image classification test with convolutional feature extraction method on Mnist dataset. The method has some reference significance for the research of quantum image feature extraction and classification.