'''Quantum image processing''' (QIMP) is primarily devoted to using quantum computing and quantum information processing to create and work with quantum images.<ref name="Iliyasu Towards 2013">{{cite journal |title=Towards realising secure and efficient image and video processing applications on quantum computers |journal=Entropy |volume=15 |issue=8 |pages=2874–2974 |year=2013 |last1=Iliyasu |first1=A.M.}}</ref><ref name="Yan A 2016">{{cite journal |title=A survey of quantum image representations |journal=Quantum Information Processing |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=1–35 |year=2016 |last1=Yan |first1=F.|last2=Iliyasu |first2=A.M.|last3=Venegas-Andraca|first3=S.E.}}</ref> Due to some of the astounding properties inherent to quantum computation, notably entanglement and parallelism, it is anticipated that QIMP technologies will offer capabilities and performances that are, as yet, unrivaled by their traditional equivalents. These improvements could be in terms of computing speed, guaranteed security, and minimal storage requirements, etc.<ref name="Yan Quantum 2017">{{cite journal |title=Quantum image processing: A review of advances in its security technologies |journal=International Journal of Quantum Information |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=1730001 |year=2017 |last1=Yan |first1=F.|last2=Iliyasu |first2=A.M.|last3=Le |first3=P.Q.}}</ref>
