Quantum computing (QC) utilizes quantum mechanics to solve complex problems faster than on “classical” computers. QCs available today are considered “Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum” (NISQ) computers with a small number of quantum bits (qubits) and limited performance due to short coherence time and noisy gates. QCs are improving all the time, so it is possible that in the future they could provide practical acceleration to video processing workflows (remember how neural networks were in the 1990’s?). This presentation will give a short overview of QC basics, results of representing (simple) images on an actual cloud-accessible QC, and will describe some research on potential video processing applications of QCs.

This talk was presented at Demuxed 2024, a conference by and for engineers working in video. Every year we host a conference with lots of great new talks like this in San Francisco. Learn more at https://demuxed.com