arXiv cs.LG
7/17/2026

QFireNet: A Quantum-Enhanced U-Net for Wildfire Segmentation from Sentinel-2 Imagery
Short summary
QFireNet integrates a variational quantum circuit into the U-Net bottleneck for wildfire segmentation from Sentinel-2 imagery. Quantum-hybrid variants QB-Net (F1=31.18) and QuFeX (F1=30.79) outperformed the classical U-Net baseline (F1=28.71), though a classical FPN with data mixing reached F1=39.76 by removing domain shift. Results suggest quantum ML may offer advantages for high-dimensional spectral feature spaces in remote sensing.
- •Quantum-hybrid U-Net variants outperform classical baseline on wildfire segmentation
- •Data mixing to remove domain shift boosted classical FPN to F1=39.76, surpassing quantum models
- •Cross-dataset transfer on CaBuAr validates architecture robustness and generalizability
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