EQCNN: Enhanced Remote Sensing Imagery Classification with Circuit-Based Error-Corrected Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks

Quantum information processing is more complex than classical counterpart because of the No-Cloning theorem, decoherence, and issues detecting quantum states. Building a quantum computer without error detection and correction module is challenging. To overcome this challenge, qubit error correction codes are implemented. Inadequate error detection and correction codes have been the downfall of earlier attempts to encode quantum information, leading to disrupted qubit transmission. Qubit information is decohered by circuit noise. Unfortunately, the principal qubit error, phase flip error is not corrected by existing qubit error correction methods. In this study, we proposed Quantum Error Detection and Correction scheme (QEDC) to keep qubit in a coherent state. Used S gates, unitary gates, 10 CNOT gates, and Hadamard gates spanning on 4 physical and 1 logical qubits over the IBM Quantum Experience Machine. We found that the error probability is reduced to 7.91% owing to the efficiency of the quantum information encoding and phase flip control. Furthermore, we proposed Error Corrected Quantum Convolution Neural Network (EQCNN) for Image Classification. EQCNN combat and correct qubit errors that occur during the image processing. EQCNN outperformed over Earth Observatory (EO) dataset, EuroSAT and achieved an impressive results of 99.3% accuracy, 98.9% F1-score, 96.73% precision, and 98.4% recall.