Benefiting from quantum? A comparative study of Q-Seg, quantum-inspired techniques, and U-Net for crack segmentation
Akshaya Srinivasan,
Alexander Geng,
Antonio Macaluso,
Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis,
Alil Moghiseh
Kapitel/Beitrag aus dem Buch: Längle T. & Heizmann M. 2024. Forum Bildverarbeitung 2024.
Exploring the potential of quantum hardware for enhancing classical and real-world applications is an ongoing challenge. This study evaluates the performance of quantum and quantum- inspired methods compared to classical models for crack segmentation. Using annotated gray-scale image patches of concrete samples, we benchmark a classical mean Gaussian mixture technique, a quantum-inspired fermionbased method, Q-Seg a quantum annealing-based method, and a U-Net deep learning architecture. Our results indicate that quantum- inspired and quantum methods offer a promising alternative for image segmentation, particularly for complex crack patterns, and could be applied in near-future applications.