Quantum robust fitting

Abstract

Many computer vision applications need to recover structure from imperfect measurements of the real world. The task is often solved by robustly fitting a geometric model onto noisy and outlier-contaminated data. However, recent theoretical analyses indicate that many commonly used formulations of robust fitting in computer vision are not amenable to tractable solution and approximation. In this paper, we explore the usage of quantum computers for robust fitting. To do so, we examine and establish the practical usefulness of a robust fitting formulation inspired by the analysis of monotone Boolean functions. We then investigate a quantum algorithm to solve the formulation and analyse the computational speed-up possible over the classical algorithm. Our work thus proposes one of the first quantum treatments of robust fitting for computer vision.

RAS ID

35653

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Date of Publication

2021

Volume

12622 LNCS

School

School of Science

Copyright

subscription content

Publisher

Springer

Comments

Chin, T. J., Suter, D., Ch'ng, S. F., & Quach, J. (2021). Quantum robust fitting. In Computer Vision - ACCV 2020 (pp. 485-499). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69525-5_29

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Link to publisher version (DOI)

10.1007/978-3-030-69525-5_29