用量子瓶颈提升遥感图像分割,小模型实现更优精度
HQ-UNet: A Hybrid Quantum-Classical U-Net with a Quantum Bottleneck for Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

- 在经典U-Net瓶颈处加入轻量量子电路,压缩特征并增强表达
- 在LandCover.ai数据集上达0.8050的平均IoU和94.76%准确率
- 适合关注量子-经典混合架构与高效遥感分割的研究者
遥感语义分割通常采用经典深度学习架构如U-Net,需大量参数建模复杂空间关系。量子机器学习(QML)通过将经典特征映射为量子态提供替代表征范式,但在近期内存量子硬件约束下难以直接应用于高维图像。本文提出HQ-UNet,一种融合紧凑参数化量子电路的混合量子-经典U-Net架构,该电路位于经典U-Net的瓶颈位置。设计采用无池化的量子卷积模块,在解码前丰富高度压缩的编码器特征,同时保持量子组件浅层且参数高效。在LandCover.ai数据集上的实验表明,HQ-UNet达到0.8050的平均交并比(mean IoU)和94.76%的整体准确率,优于经典U-Net基线。结果表明,在近期内存量子约束下,紧凑量子瓶颈可有效提升遥感图像分割的特征表示能力。这凸显了混合量子-经典设计在地球观测中参数高效密集预测的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Semantic segmentation in remote sensing is commonly addressed using classical deep learning architectures such as U-Net, which require a large number of parameters to model complex spatial relationships. Quantum machine learning (QML) provides an alternative representation paradigm by mapping classical features into quantum states, but its direct application to high-dimensional images remains challenging under near-term quantum hardware constraints. In this work, we propose HQ-UNet, a hybrid quantum-classical U-Net architecture that integrates a compact parameterized quantum circuit at the bottleneck of a classical U-Net. The proposed design uses a non-pooling quantum convolutional module to enrich highly compressed encoder features before decoding, while keeping the quantum component shallow and parameter-efficient. Experiments on the LandCover.ai dataset show that HQ-UNet achieves a mean IoU of 0.8050 and an overall accuracy of 94.76%, outperforming the classical U-Net baseline. These results suggest that compact quantum bottlenecks can enhance feature representation for remote sensing image segmentation under near-term quantum constraints. This highlights the potential of hybrid quantum-classical designs as a promising direction for parameter-efficient dense prediction in Earth observation.
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