Glance at Quantum Innovations in Crop Pest and Disease Detection: Bridging Physics and Agriculture
Attila Balázs Nagy, Yue Wu, Katalin Takács-György +2 more
Agriculture faces increasing risks in ensuring global food security, with challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and plant disease and pest outbreaks posing significant threats to crop yields. These factors are compounded by growing global populations, resource limitations, and market fluctuations. Traditional methods for crop pest and disease monitoring, often reliant on manual surveys and basic machine learning models, are inadequate in addressing these challenges due to limited scalability and accuracy. This research explores the potential application of quantum machine learning (QML) for crop pest and disease monitoring, leveraging the advanced computational capabilities of quantum computers to improve detection accuracy, efficiency, and scalability. The study reviews existing monitoring systems, recent advancements in quantum computing technologies, and the integration of QML algorithms, which offer promising solutions for handling large, complex agricultural datasets. While the practical application of QML in agriculture is still in its early stages, its theoretical advantages indicate significant potential for future smart agricultural systems.
IEEE World Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI)•Jan 23, 2025•7 citations