<s>
Quantum	B-Architecture
computation	I-Architecture
,	O
which	O
exploits	O
quantum	B-Architecture
parallelism	I-Architecture
,	O
is	O
in	O
principle	O
faster	O
than	O
a	O
classical	O
computer	O
for	O
certain	O
problems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Quantum	B-Device
image	I-Device
is	O
encoding	O
the	O
image	O
information	O
in	O
quantum-mechanical	O
systems	O
instead	O
of	O
classical	O
ones	O
and	O
replacing	O
classical	O
with	O
quantum	O
information	O
processing	O
may	O
alleviate	O
some	O
of	O
these	O
challenges	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
is	O
the	O
first	O
experiment	O
to	O
demonstrate	O
practical	O
quantum	B-Device
image	I-Device
processing	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
contributes	O
a	O
substantial	O
progress	O
towards	O
both	O
theoretical	O
and	O
experimental	O
quantum	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
for	O
image	O
processing	O
,	O
it	O
will	O
stimulate	O
future	O
studies	O
in	O
the	O
field	O
of	O
quantum	O
information	O
processing	O
of	O
visual	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
