digital data processors, but others remain time-consuming. In particular, the rapidly increasing volume of image data as well as increasingly challenging computational tasks have become important driving forces for further improving the efficiency of image processing and analysis.Quantum information processing (QIP), which exploits quantum-mechanical phenomena such as quantum superpositions and quantum entanglement [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23], allows one to overcome the limitations of classical computation and reaches higher computational speed for certain problems like factoring large numbers [24,25] , searching an unsorted database [26], boson sampling [27][28][29][30][31][32], quantum simulation [33-40], solving linear systems of equations [41][42][43][44][45], and machine learning [46][47][48]. These unique quantum properties, such as quantum superposition and quantum parallelism, may also be used to speed up signal and data processing [49,50]. For quantum image processing, quantum image representation (QImR) plays a key role, which substantively determines the kinds of processing tasks and how well they can be performed. A number of QImRs [51-54] have been discussed.In this article, we demonstrate the basic framework of quan-arXiv:1801.01465v1 [quant-ph]