A systematic literature review of quantum object detection and recognition: research trend, datasets, topics and methods

Abstract

Quantum computing is a computational process that utilizes quantum mechanics features, namely superposition, interference, and entanglement, in information processing, allowing computation to run in parallel. The advantage of quantum computing is that it solves complex problems whereas classical computing is impossible because it requires expensive computing costs. Object detection and recognition is a task of computer vision, where research in this field aims to improve the ability of computer algorithms to produce interpretations of visual information. Humans easily analyze and describe the visual information received. However, unlike computer systems, they must learn and explore using machine learning from the visual information received to provide correct interpretations of visual information. This paper presents a systematic review of papers published from 2012 to 2024 to answer how far quantum object detection and recognition research has been conducted. The methodology of this review follows a systematic literature review such as the method proposed by Kitchenham et al. The selected primary studies amounted to 29 papers from four source digital libraries. The application of quantum algorithms is more often used to improve the performance of classical computing. The quantum model category consists of 3 types, namely pure quantum, hybrid classical-quantum, and quantum-inspired ML. Hybrid classical-quantum is the most discussed model and Quantum Convolutional Neural Network is the most frequently discussed algorithm or model in image classification from 2012 to 2024. Quantum algorithms show good results and can improve the performance of classical algorithms, although currently, the ability of quantum computing is not fully optimal because the development of quantum computers is still in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era. However, with the current limited quantum computing capabilities, it can already outperform the capabilities of classical computing. Based on this, studies on quantum object detection and recognition need to be carried out so that when the full potential of quantum computing can be utilized, the user's capacity is competent.