Quantum Visual Fields with Neural Amplitude Encoding

Shuteng Wang (Saarland Informatics Campus, Max-Planck Institute) · Christian Theobalt (MPI Informatik) · Vladislav Golyanik (Saarland Informatics Campus, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics)
3d shape interpolationansatz architecturefield completionfully entangled designhilbert space embeddingslearnable energy manifoldlearnable parametrised quantum circuitsneural amplitude encodingnumerically stable trainingparametrised quantum circuitsquantum implicit neural representationsquantum unitary operationsquantum visual fieldquantum-mechanical propertiestraining efficiencyvisual representation accuracy

Quantum Implicit Neural Representations (QINRs) have emerged as a promising paradigm that leverages parametrised quantum circuits to encode and process classical information. However, significant challenges remain in areas such as ansatz architecture design, the effective utility of quantum-mechanical properties, training efficiency, and the integration with classical modules. This paper advances the field by introducing a novel QINR architecture for 2D image and 3D geometric field learning, which we collectively refer to as Quantum Visual Field (QVF). QVF encodes classical data into quantum statevectors using neural amplitude encoding grounded in a learnable energy manifold, ensuring meaningful Hilbert space embeddings. Our ansatz follows a fully entangled design of learnable parametrised quantum circuits, with quantum (unitary) operations performed in the real Hilbert space, resulting in numerically stable training with fast convergence. QVF does not rely on classical post-processing