Quantum Annealing Approach: Feature Extraction and Segmentation of Synthetic Aperture Radar Image

The Markov Random Field (MRF) is used for extracting feature information in images and is formed as an Ising-like model. The quantum annealing is a novel method to optimize objective functions, and objective functions have to be expressed in terms of the Ising model. Hence, the MRF can be embedded into the the quantum annealing method, and feature information of remote sensing images then can be extracted using a quantum annealing computer. Extracted information or features are used to segment an image.