Crosswalk traffic light detection for the visually impaired based on hybrid classical–quantum neural networks
摘要
This paper proposes a novel two-step method combining classical and quantum computation to accurately detect crosswalk traffic lights for visually impaired pedestrians. The first step utilizes the improved YOLOv5 model to identify crosswalk traffic light locations. In the second step, the detected lights are processed using a single-layer quantum convolutional neural network with a newly designed parameterized quantum circuit. The proposed quantum circuit reduces the number of qubits and circuit depth required while maintaining high accuracy, making it suitable for noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. Experimental results demonstrate that our method has better performance compared to existing methods, achieving detection accuracy of 94.9%, precision of 95.4%, and the AUC reaches 0.98. These results also demonstrate the model’s robustness in complex traffic environments.