QFireNet: A Quantum-Enhanced U-Net for Wildfire Segmentation from Sentinel-2 Imagery· QFireNet:用于Sentinel-2图像野火分割的量子增强U-Net
Wildfire detection from satellite imagery is a semantic image segmentation problem that has proven to be difficult due to challenges such as class imbalance, feature complexity, and atmospheric interference. In this paper, we build on the foundational U-Net image segmentation model to develop a quantum-hybrid solution in hopes of more effectively modeling the high-dimensional spectral feature space of the Sen2Fire dataset. We inject a variational quantum circuit in the bottleneck portion of U-Net, specifically the QuFeX and QB-Net ansatzes. We test a classical Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) for