arXiv · 2604.16662
Resource-Efficient Quantum-Enhanced Compressive Imaging via Quantum Classical co-Design
Abstract
Quantum sensing can enhance imaging performance by reducing measurement noise below the classical limit, thereby improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of acquired data. In conventional quantum imaging schemes, squeezing is applied independently to each pixel or spatial mode, leading to a quantum resource cost that scales linearly with image dimension. This approach implicitly separates quantum enhancement from classical post-processing, treating them as independent layers. In this work, we demonstrate that integrating quantum resource allocation with the guidance from classical compressive imaging, via co-design between the quantum hardware layer and the classical software layer, substantially reduces the required quantum resources. We employ principal component analysis (PCA) to identify a low-dimensional principal component subspace for measurement and apply squeezing selectively to the most informative spatial modes corresponding to these principal components. Our numerical experiments show that high-accuracy image classification and high-fidelity image reconstruction can be achieved with significantly fewer squeezed modes compared to pixel-wise squeezing. Our results establish a joint quantum classical co-design framework for resource-efficient quantum-enhanced imaging.
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Haowei Shi, Visuttha Manthamkarn, Christopher M. Jones, Zheshen Zhang, Quntao Zhuang. 2026-04-17. Resource-Efficient Quantum-Enhanced Compressive Imaging via Quantum Classical co-Design. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16662
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