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==Background==

A. Y. Vlasov's work<ref name="Vlasov Quantum 2003">{{cite journal|last1=Vlasov|first1=A.Y.|year=1997|title=Quantum computations and images recognition|url=https://archive.org/details/arxiv-quant-ph9703010|arxiv=quant-ph/9703010|bibcode=1997quant.ph..3010V}}</ref> in 1997 focused on using a quantum system to recognize [[Orthogonality|orthogonal]] images. This was followed by efforts using [[quantum algorithms]] to search specific patterns in [[binary image]]s<ref name="Schutzhold Pattern 2003">{{cite journal |title=Pattern recognition on a quantum computer |journal=Physical Review A |volume=67 |issue=6 |pages=062311 |year=2003 |last1=Schutzhold |first1=R.|arxiv=quant-ph/0208063 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevA.67.062311 |bibcode=2003PhRvA..67f2311S }}</ref> and detect the posture of certain targets.<ref name="Beach Quantum 2003">{{cite book |pages=39–40 |year=2003 |last1=Beach |first1=G.|last2=Lomont |first2=C.|last3=Cohen |first3=C.|title=32nd Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, 2003. Proceedings. |chapter=Quantum image processing (QuIP) |doi=10.1109/AIPR.2003.1284246 |isbn=0-7695-2029-4 |s2cid=32051928 }}</ref> Notably, more optics-based interpretations for [[quantum imaging]] were initially experimentally demonstrated in <ref>{{cite journal |title=Optical imaging by means of two-photon quantum entanglement |journal=Physical Review A |volume=52 |issue=5 |pages=R3429–R3432 |year=1995 |last1=Pittman |first1=T.B.|last2=Shih |first2=Y.H.|last3=Strekalov |first3=D.V.|bibcode=1995PhRvA..52.3429P |doi=10.1103/PhysRevA.52.R3429 |pmid=9912767 }}</ref> and formalized in <ref name="Lugiato quantum 2002">{{cite journal |title=Quantum imaging |journal=Journal of Optics B |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=S176–S183 |year=2002 |last1=Lugiato |first1=L.A.|last2=Gatti |first2=A.|last3=Brambilla |first3=E.|doi=10.1088/1464-4266/4/3/372 |bibcode=2002JOptB...4S.176L |arxiv=quant-ph/0203046 |s2cid=9640455 }}</ref> after seven years.

In 2003, Salvador Venegas-Andraca and S. Bose presented Qubit Lattice, the first published general model for storing, processing and retrieving images using quantum systems.<ref name="Venegas-AndracaIJCAI2003">{{cite journal |title=Quantum Computation and Image Processing: New Trends in Artificial Intelligence |journal=Proceedings of the 2003 IJCAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence |pages=1563–1564 |year=2003 |last1=Venegas-Andraca |first1=S.E.|last2=Bose|first2=S.|url=https://www.ijcai.org/Proceedings/03/Papers/276.pdf}}</ref><ref name="Venegas Storing 2003">{{cite book |journal=Proceedings of SPIE Conference of Quantum Information and Computation |volume=5105 |pages=134–147 |year=2003 |last1=Venegas-Andraca |first1=S.E.|last2=Bose |first2=S.|title=Quantum Information and Computation |chapter=Storing, processing, and retrieving an image using quantum mechanics |editor3-first=Howard E |editor3-last=Brandt |editor2-first=Andrew R |editor2-last=Pirich |editor1-first=Eric |editor1-last=Donkor |bibcode=2003SPIE.5105..137V |doi=10.1117/12.485960 |s2cid=120495441 }}</ref> Later on, in 2005, Latorre proposed another kind of representation, called the Real Ket,<ref name="Latorre Image 2005">{{cite journal |title=Image compression and entanglement |url=https://archive.org/details/arxiv-quant-ph0510031 |arxiv=quant-ph/0510031 |year=2005 |last1=Latorre |first1=J.I.|bibcode=2005quant.ph.10031L }}</ref> whose purpose was to encode quantum images as a basis for further applications in QIMP. Furthermore, in 2010 Venegas-Andraca and Ball presented a method for storing and retrieving [[Well-known text representation of geometry|binary geometrical shapes]] in quantum mechanical systems in which it is shown that maximally entangled [[qubit]]s can be used to reconstruct images without using any additional information.<ref name="Venegas-Andraca2010">{{cite journal |title=Processing Images in Entangled Quantum Systems |journal=Quantum Informatiom Processing |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=1–11 |year=2010 |last1=Venegas-Andraca |first1=S.E.|last2=Ball |first2=J.|doi=10.1007/s11128-009-0123-z |bibcode=2010QuIP....9....1V |s2cid=34988263 }}</ref>

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==Quantum image manipulations==

A lot of the effort in QIMP has been focused on designing [[algorithm]]s to manipulate the position and color information encoded using flexible representation of quantum images (FRQI) and its many variants. For instance, FRQI-based fast [[Geometry|geometric]] transformations including (two-point) swapping, flip, (orthogonal) rotations<ref name="Le Fast 2010">{{cite journal |title= Multi-dimensional color image storage and retrieval for a normal arbitrary quantum superposition state |journal= IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=113–123 |year=2010 |last1=Le |first1=P. |last2=Iliyasu |first2=A. |last3= Dong |first3=F. |last4= Hirota |first4=K. }}</ref> and restricted geometric transformations to constrain these operations to a specified area of an image<ref name="Le Strategies 2011">{{cite journal |title= Strategies for designing geometric transformations on quantum images |journal= Theoretical Computer Science |volume=412 |issue=15 |pages=1406–1418 |year=2011 |last1=Le |first1=P. |last2=Iliyasu |first2=A. |last3= Dong |first3=F. |last4= Hirota |first4=K. |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82724999.pdf|doi= 10.1016/j.tcs.2010.11.029 |doi-access=free }}</ref> were initially proposed. Recently, NEQR-based quantum image translation to map the position of each picture element in an input image into a new position in an output image<ref name="Wang Quantum 2015">{{cite journal |title= Quantum image translation |journal= Quantum Information Processing |volume=14 |issue=5 |pages=1589–1604 |year=2015 |last1=Wang |first1=J. |last2=Jiang |first2=N. |last3= Wang |first3=L. |doi= 10.1007/s11128-014-0843-6 |bibcode= 2015QuIP...14.1589W |s2cid= 33839291 }}</ref> and quantum [[image scaling]] to resize a quantum image<ref name="Jiang Quantum 2015">{{cite journal |title= Quantum image scaling up based on nearest-neighbor interpolation with integer scaling ratio |journal= Quantum Information Processing |volume=14 |issue=11 |pages=4001–4026 |year=2015 |last1=Jiang |first1=N. |last2=Wang |first2=J. |last3= Mu |first3=Y. |doi= 10.1007/s11128-015-1099-5 |bibcode= 2015QuIP...14.4001J |s2cid= 30804812 }}</ref> were discussed. While FRQI-based general form of color transformations were first proposed by means of the single [[Quantum logic gate|qubit gates]] such as X, Z, and H gates.<ref>{{cite journal |title= Efficient colour transformations on quantum image |journal= Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics |volume=15 |issue=6 |pages=698–706 |year=2011 |last1=Le |first1=P. |last2= Iliyasu |first2=A. |last3= Dong |first3=F. |last4= Hirota |first4=K. |doi= 10.20965/jaciii.2011.p0698 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Later, Multi-Channel Quantum Image-based channel of interest (CoI) operator to entail shifting the [[grayscale]] value of the preselected color channel and the channel swapping (CS) operator to swap the grayscale values between two channels have been fully discussed.<ref name="Sun Multi 2014">{{cite journal |title= Multi-channel information operations on quantum images |journal= Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=140–149 |year=2014 |last1=Sun |first1=B. |last2=Iliyasu |first2=A. |last3= Yan |first3=F. |last4= Garcia |first4=J. |last5= Dong |first5=F. |last6= Al-Asmari |first6=A.|doi= 10.20965/jaciii.2014.p0140 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

To illustrate the feasibility and capability of QIMP algorithms and application, researchers always prefer to simulate the digital image processing tasks on the basis of the QIRs that we already have. By using the basic quantum gates and the aforementioned operations, so far, researchers have contributed to quantum image [[feature extraction]],<ref name="Zhang Local 2015">{{cite journal |title= Local feature point extraction for quantum images |journal= Quantum Information Processing |volume=14 |issue=5 |pages=1573–1588 |year=2015 |last1=Zhang |first1=Y. |last2=Lu |first2=K. |last3= Xu |first3=K. |last4= Gao |first4=Y. |last5= Wilson |first5=R. |doi= 10.1007/s11128-014-0842-7 |bibcode= 2015QuIP...14.1573Z |s2cid= 20213446 }}</ref> quantum [[image segmentation]],<ref name="Caraiman Histogram 2014">{{cite journal |title= Histogram-based segmentation of quantum images |journal= Theoretical Computer Science |volume=529 |pages=46–60 |year=2014 |last1=Caraiman |first1=S. |last2=Manta |first2=V. |doi= 10.1016/j.tcs.2013.08.005 |doi-access=free }}</ref> quantum image morphology,<ref name="Yuan Quantum 2015">{{cite journal |title= Quantum morphology operations based on quantum representation model |journal= Quantum Information Processing |volume=14 |issue=5 |pages=1625–1645 |year=2015 |last1=Yuan |first1=S. |last2=Mao |first2=X. |last3= Li |first3=T. |last4= Xue |first4=Y. |last5= Chen |first5=L. |last6= Xiong |first6=Q.|doi= 10.1007/s11128-014-0862-3 |bibcode= 2015QuIP...14.1625Y |s2cid= 44828546 }}</ref> quantum image comparison,<ref name="Yan A 2013">{{cite journal |title= A parallel comparison of multiple pairs of images on quantum computers |journal= International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=199–212 |year=2013 |last1=Yan |first1=F. |last2=Iliyasu |first2=A. |last3= Le |first3=P. |last4= Sun |first4=B. |last5= Dong |first5=F. |last6= Hirota |first6=K.|doi= 10.1504/IJICA.2013.062955 }}</ref> quantum image filtering,<ref name="Caraiman Quantum 2013">{{cite journal |title= Quantum image filtering in the frequency ___domain |journal= Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=77–84 |year=2013 |last1=Caraiman |first1=S. |last2=Manta |first2=V. |doi= 10.4316/AECE.2013.03013 |doi-access=free }}</ref> quantum image classification,<ref name="Ruan Quantum 2016">{{cite journal |title= Quantum computation for large-scale image classification |journal= Quantum Information Processing |volume=15 |issue=10|pages=4049–4069 |year=2016 |last1=Ruan |first1=Y. |last2=Chen |first2=H. |last3= Tan |first3=J. |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305644388|doi= 10.1007/s11128-016-1391-z |bibcode= 2016QuIP...15.4049R |s2cid= 27476075 }}</ref> quantum [[image stabilization]],<ref name="Yan Strategy 2016">{{cite journal |title= Strategy for quantum image stabilization |journal= Science China Information Sciences |volume=59 |issue= 5 |pages=052102 |year=2016 |last1=Yan |first1=F. |last2=Iliyasu |first2=A. |last3= Yang |first3=H. |last4= Hirota |first4=K. |doi= 10.1007/s11432-016-5541-9 |s2cid= 255200782 |doi-access= }}</ref> among others. In particular, QIMP-based security technologies have attracted extensive interest of researchers as presented in the ensuing discussions. Similarly, these advancements have led to many applications in the areas of [[watermark]]ing,<ref name="Iliyasu Watermarking 2012">{{cite journal |title= Watermarking and authentication of quantum images based on restricted geometric transformations |journal= Information Sciences |volume=186 |issue=1|pages=126–149 |year=2012 |last1=Iliyasu |first1=A. |last2=Le |first2=P. |last3= Dong |first3=F. |last4= Hirota |first4=K. |doi= 10.1016/j.ins.2011.09.028 }}</ref><ref name="Heidari Watermarking 2016">{{cite journal |title= A Novel Lsb based Quantum Watermarking |journal= International Journal of Theoretical Physics |volume= 55 |issue=10 |pages=4205–4218 |year=2016|last1=Heidari |first1=S. |last2=Naseri |first2=M. |doi= 10.1007/s10773-016-3046-3 |bibcode= 2016IJTP...55.4205H |s2cid= 124870364 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title= A quantum watermark protocol |journal= International Journal of Theoretical Physics |volume=52 |issue=2|pages=504–513 |year=2013 |last1=Zhang |first1=W. |last2=Gao |first2=F. |last3= Liu |first3=B. |last4= Jia |first4=H. |bibcode=2013IJTP...52..504Z |doi=10.1007/s10773-012-1354-9 |s2cid= 122413780 }}</ref> encryption,<ref name="Zhou Quantum 2013">{{cite journal |title= Quantum image encryption and decryption algorithms based on quantum image geometric transformations. International |journal= Journal of Theoretical Physics |volume=52 |issue=6|pages=1802–1817 |year=2013 |last1=Zhou |first1=R. |last2=Wu |first2=Q. |last3= Zhang |first3=M. |last4= Shen |first4=C. |doi= 10.1007/s10773-012-1274-8 |s2cid= 121269114 }}</ref> and [[steganography]]<ref name="Jiang Lsb 2015">{{cite journal |title= Lsb based quantum image steganography algorithm |journal= International Journal of Theoretical Physics |volume=55 |issue=1|pages=107–123 |year=2015 |last1=Jiang |first1=N. |last2=Zhao |first2=N. |last3= Wang |first3=L. |doi= 10.1007/s10773-015-2640-0 |s2cid= 120009979 |doi-access=free }}</ref> etc., which form the core security technologies highlighted in this area.

In general, the work pursued by the researchers in this area are focused on expanding the applicability of QIMP to realize more classical-like digital image processing algorithms; propose technologies to physically realize the QIMP hardware; or simply to note the likely challenges that could impede the realization of some QIMP protocols.