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Reliable image transmission over wireless channels is particularly challenging at extremely low transmission rates, where conventional compression and channel coding schemes fail to preserve adequate visual quality. To address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shengkang Chen , Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Feng Yang , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

Deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for end-to-end semantic communications, jointly learning to compress and protect task-relevant features over noisy channels. However, existing DeepJSCC schemes…

We propose a hybrid joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme, in which the conventional digital communication scheme is complemented with a generative refinement component to improve the perceptual quality of the reconstruction. The input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Xueyan Niu , Xu Wang , Deniz Gündüz , Bo Bai , Weichao Chen , Guohua Zhou

Motivated by surveillance applications with wireless cameras or drones, we consider the problem of image retrieval over a wireless channel. Conventional systems apply lossy compression on query images to reduce the data that must be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

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

Recently, deep learning-enabled joint-source channel coding (JSCC) has received increasing attention due to its great success in image transmission. However, most existing JSCC studies only focus on single-input single-output (SISO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

This paper introduces a vision transformer (ViT)-based deep joint source and channel coding (DeepJSCC) scheme for wireless image transmission over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, denoted as DeepJSCC-MIMO. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Haotian Wu , Yulin Shao , Chenghong Bian , Krystian Mikolajczyk , Deniz Gündüz

We propose joint transmission-recognition schemes for efficient inference at the wireless edge. Motivated by the surveillance applications with wireless cameras, we consider the person classification task over a wireless channel carried out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Ezgi Ozyilkan , Mikolaj Jankowski

The rapid development of artificial intelligence has significantly advanced semantic communications, particularly in wireless image transmission. However, most existing approaches struggle to precisely distinguish and prioritize image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-24 Jiarun Ding , Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

Semantic communications (SCs) aim to transmit only the essential information required to perform given tasks, thereby improving communication efficiency. Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deep JSCC) has emerged as a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Eunhye Hong , Taewoo Park , Yongjune Kim

Deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) has shown promise in wireless transmission of text, speech, and images within the realm of semantic communication. However, wireless video transmission presents greater challenges due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Xinyi Zhou , Danlan Huang , Zhixin Qi , Liang Zhang , Ting Jiang

Cross-technology communication (CTC) is a promising technique that enables direct communications among incompatible wireless technologies without needing hardware modification. However, it has not been widely adopted in real-world…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Shumin Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Hao Chen , Yaping Sun , Qinglin Zhao

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems have garnered significant attention due to their capability to simultaneously achieve efficient communication and environmental sensing. A core objective in this field is characterizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Gefei Peng , Youlong Wu

We present a deep learning based joint source channel coding (JSCC) scheme for wireless image transmission over multipath fading channels with non-linear signal clipping. The proposed encoder and decoder use convolutional neural networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Mingyu Yang , Chenghong Bian , Hun-Seok Kim

Modern Earth Observation (EO) systems increasingly rely on high-resolution imagery to support critical applications such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, and land-use analysis. Although these applications benefit from…

Deep learning based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has demonstrated significant advancements in data reconstruction compared to separate source-channel coding (SSCC). This superiority arises from the suboptimality of SSCC when dealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Matin Mortaheb , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour , Srimat T. Chakradhar , Sennur Ulukus

The semantic information of the image for intelligent tasks is hidden behind the pixels, and slight changes in the pixels will affect the performance of intelligent tasks. In order to preserve semantic information behind pixels for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Qizheng Sun , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Jiujiu Chen , Rui Tang , Chuanhong Liu

Semantic communication is an increasingly popular framework for wireless image transmission due to its high communication efficiency. With the aid of the joint-source-and-channel (JSC) encoder implemented by neural network, semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Maojun Zhang , Yang Li , Zezhong Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Caijun Zhong

Recent advances in deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) have enabled efficient semantic communication in dynamic wireless environments. Among these approaches, vector quantization (VQ)-based JSCC effectively maps…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Eunsoo Kim , Yoon Huh , Wan Choi

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