Quantum inspired image augmentation applicable to waveguides and optical image transfer via Anderson Localization

TL;DR

This paper introduces a quantum-inspired image augmentation method based on Anderson localization, applicable to classical images and potentially extendable to quantum systems, enhancing optical image transfer via disordered waveguides.

Contribution

It proposes a novel augmentation technique leveraging Anderson localization, bridging classical and quantum image processing with practical implications for optical waveguide systems.

Findings

The technique induces interference-based changes in wave properties.

Augmentation acts as multiplicative noise that averages out.

Implementation in disordered waveguides improves optical image transfer.

Abstract

We present a quantum inspired image augmentation protocol which is applicable to classical images and, in principle, due to its known quantum formulation applicable to quantum systems and quantum machine learning in the future. The augmentation technique relies on the phenomenon Anderson localization. As we will illustrate by numerical examples the technique changes classical wave properties by interference effects resulting from scatterings at impurities in the material. We explain that the augmentation can be understood as multiplicative noise, which counter-intuitively averages out, by sampling over disorder realizations. Furthermore, we show how the augmentation can be implemented in arrays of disordered waveguides with direct implications for an efficient optical image transfer.