Facial classification Using Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning

Abstract:Hybrid quantum methods have received limited study for resource-constrained facial biometrics. We present a hybrid quantum-classical facial recognition pipeline designed to run on standard computing hardware. Images undergo gamma correction, contrast enhancement, and principal component analysis before their features are encoded into an eight-qubit variational quantum classifier. Classical image matching then performs recognition. In experiments with 50,000 images, comprising 25,000 faces from CelebA and 25,000 non-face images from CIFAR-10, the method outperformed the reported CPU-trained FaceNet baseline in accuracy and training efficiency. The pipeline was also evaluated on GPU and quantum hardware. In an attendance monitoring deployment at Mahindra University in collaboration with Lloyds Technology Centre, CPU inference took 0.2 to 0.5 seconds per person, and the system remained robust to the use of spectacles. These findings support the feasibility of deploying hybrid quantum methods for facial recognition on existing CPU hardware.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

arXiv:2609.31915 [cs.CV]

(or arXiv:2609.31915v1 [cs.CV] for this version)

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