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We present an AI-based framework for semantic transmission of multimedia data over band-limited, time-varying channels. The method targets scenarios where large content is split into multiple packets, with an unknown number potentially…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Nargis Fayaz , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan

Semantic communications (SemCom) have emerged as a new paradigm for supporting sixth-generation applications, where semantic features of data are transmitted using artificial intelligence algorithms to attain high communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Jianhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Chuan Huang , Kaibin Huang

Small satellites used for Earth observation generate vast amounts of high-dimensional data, but their operation in low Earth orbit creates a significant communication bottleneck due to limited contact times and harsh, varying channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Olga Kondrateva , Grace Li Zhang , Julian Zobel , Björn Scheuermann , Stefan Dietzel

In this paper, a learning-aided content-based wireless image transmission scheme is proposed, where a multi-antenna-aided source wishes to securely deliver an image to a legitimate destination in the presence of randomly distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mehdi Letafati , Hamid Behroozi , Babak Hossein Khalaj , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Recent advancements in information technology and the widespread use of the Internet have led to easier access to data worldwide. As a result, transmitting data through noisy channels is inevitable. Reducing the size of data and protecting…

Earth observation with small satellites serves a wide range of relevant applications. However, significant advances in sensor technology (e.g., higher resolution, multiple spectrums beyond visible light) in combination with challenging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Olga Kondrateva , Stefan Dietzel , Björn Scheuermann

In this paper, we propose two deep joint source and channel coding (DJSCC) structures with attention modules for the multi-input multi-output (MIMO) channel, including a serial structure and a parallel structure. With singular value…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Weiran Jiang , Wei Chen , Bo Ai

Multi-task learning (MTL) is an efficient way to improve the performance of related tasks by sharing knowledge. However, most existing MTL networks run on a single end and are not suitable for collaborative intelligence (CI) scenarios. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Mengyang Wang , Zhicong Zhang , Jiahui Li , Mengyao Ma , Xiaopeng Fan

We consider the problem of joint source and channel coding of structured data such as natural language over a noisy channel. The typical approach to this problem in both theory and practice involves performing source coding to first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Nariman Farsad , Milind Rao , Andrea Goldsmith

Efficient image transmission is essential for seamless communication and collaboration within the visually-driven digital landscape. To achieve low latency and high-quality image reconstruction over a bandwidth-constrained noisy wireless…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Nan Li , Yansha Deng

Many wireless vision applications, such as autonomous driving, require preservation of global structural information rather than only per-pixel fidelity. However, existing Deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) schemes mainly optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Omar Erak , Omar Alhussein , Fang Fang , Sami Muhaidat

Conventional communication systems, including both separation-based coding and AI-driven joint source-channel coding (JSCC), are largely guided by Shannon's rate-distortion theory. However, relying on generic distortion metrics fails to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Guo Lu , Li Song , Feng Yang , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

Current privacy-aware joint source-channel coding (JSCC) works aim at avoiding private information transmission by adversarially training the JSCC encoder and decoder under specific signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of eavesdroppers. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Lunan Sun , Caili Guo , Mingzhe Chen , Yang Yang

We consider the transmission of spatially correlated analog information in a wireless sensor network (WSN) through fading single-input and multiple-output (SIMO) multiple access channels (MACs) with low-latency requirements. A lattice-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Pedro Suárez-Casal , Óscar Fresnedo , Darian Pérez-Adán , Luis Castedo

This paper introduces Implicit-JSCC, a novel overfitted joint source-channel coding paradigm that directly optimizes channel symbols and a lightweight neural decoder for each source. This instance-specific strategy eliminates the need for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Haotian Wu , Gen Li , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gündüz

Recent deep learning methods have led to increased interest in solving high-efficiency end-to-end transmission problems. These methods, we call nonlinear transform source-channel coding (NTSCC), extract the semantic latent features of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Zhongwei Si , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Deep neural network (DNN)-based joint source and channel coding is proposed for privacy-aware end-to-end image transmission against multiple eavesdroppers. Both scenarios of colluding and non-colluding eavesdroppers are considered. Unlike…

Generative receivers for wireless image transmission can improve reconstruction quality, but diffusion-based and flow-based decoding relies on iterative inference and therefore incurs substantial latency. In wireless image transmission,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Jingwen Fu , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

The design of zero-delay Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) schemes for the transmission of correlated information over fading Multiple Access Channels (MACs) is an interesting problem for many communication scenarios like Wireless Sensor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 O. Fresnedo , P. Suárez-Casal , L. Castedo

Semantic communication focuses on conveying the task-relevant meaning rather than exact bitwise recovery. For image transmission with a generative receiver, relying only on text descriptions can be insufficient to preserve instance-specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xuesong Wang , Xinyan Xie , Mo Li , Zhaoqian Liu