Image Enhancement in a Quantum Environment

Abstract

This program investigated the ability to perform image enhancement, based upon diffusion processing, on a purely quantum or hybrid classical-quantum (type-II) computer. Given that image processing based upon solving partial differential equations has become more prevalent and developed in recent years and given that the fundamental equation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, the Schrodinger equation, may be viewed as diffusion in imaginary time, quantum information may provide practical speedups for image processing tasks. This research investigated which diffusion and related Schrodinger equations may be simulated using quantum lattice gas algorithms (QLGAs), which are attractive because of their ability to simulate non-linear phenomena. Extension of QLGAs to perform selective image smoothing in support of image enhancement has been developed and demonstrated for multi-dimensional as well as anisotropic diffusion algorithms.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA469994

Entities

People

  • Mark Coffey

Organizations

  • Colorado School of Mines

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Boltzmann Equation
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Image Processing
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Information
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Schrodinger Equation
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Medical Imaging.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing