Abstract
Despite their importance as subfields of mathematics and engineering, signal and image processing have not received much attention in the field of quantum computation. Cross-correlations are instrumental to all the aforementioned fields. In this article we help fill this void by providing two quantum algorithms, one for computing and storing cross-correlations, and one for implementing the expectation maximization maximum likelihood algorithm. In addition we show that the quantum expectation maximization maximum likelihood algorithm has a quadratic speed-up compared to the classical analog.