quant-phMay 14, 2026

Quantum Feature Pyramid Gating for Seismic Image Segmentation

Authors: Taha Gharaibeh, Jyotsna Sharma

Organizations: Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

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Abstract

Accurate salt-body delineation is essential for seismic interpretation because salt structures distort wave propagation, complicate velocity-model building, obscure reservoir geometry, and increase uncertainty in exploration and drilling decisions. Although hybrid quantum-classical models have shown competitive performance on small-scale image-classification tasks, their value for dense, pixel-level geophysical prediction remains largely untested. This work introduces quantum feature gating, a hybrid segmentation architecture that embeds a parameterized quantum circuit (PQC) at feature-fusion points within an encoder-decoder pipeline. A 4-qubit, 2-layer PQC with data re-uploading computes a learned convex combination of lateral and top-down features at each Feature Pyramid Network merge point. A global-average-pooling layer maps encoder features to a fixed 4-dimensional quantum input, decoupling the 72-parameter quantum budget from backbone size and image resolution. The method is evaluated on the 2018 TGS Salt Identification Challenge using 4,000 seismic images at 101 x 101 resolution, across two integration topologies, eight circuit variants, and six encoders with 8M to 118M parameters under five-fold cross-validation. In a controlled EfficientNetV2-L ablation at 256 x 256 resolution, replacing the three Quantum FPN Gates with element-wise addition while holding the encoder, loss schedule, splits, and threshold search fixed reduces mean IoU from 0.9389 to 0.8404, a 9.85 percentage-point gap. Inserting the same circuit as skip-connection attention in a custom U-Net improves IoU by 0.88 points over the SolidUNet baseline, showing that the PQC contribution depends on where and what it gates. These results provide controlled evidence that quantum feature fusion can improve dense seismic segmentation.

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