Hyper-Spectral Image Classification Using Adiabatic Quantum Computation

Supervised machine learning techniques are widely used for hyper-spectral images segmentation. A typical simple scheme of classification of such images probabilistically assigns a label to each individual pixel omitting information about pixel surroundings. In order to achieve better classification results for real world images one has to agree the local label obtained from the classifier with the classes of pixel neighborhood. A popular way to do it is through a probabilistic graphical model, where label distributions for individual pixels are mapped into a graph of neighborhood relations. One way to realize this approach is to use Ising models, where class probability is mapped to spin energy and class-class interaction is mapped to the spins coupling. By finding low energy states of such an Ising model we can perform post-processing of segmented images. In this work we present how this postprocessing can be implemented using a quantum annealer.