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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…

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Nowadays, the demand for image transmission over wireless networks has surged significantly. To meet the need for swift delivery of high-quality images through time-varying channels with limited bandwidth, the development of efficient…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mohammad Amin Jarrahi , Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Vahid Abolghasemi

Distributed computing in the context of deep neural networks (DNNs) implies the execution of one part of the network on edge devices and the other part typically on a large-scale cloud platform. Conventional methods propose to employ a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Danish Nazir , Timo Bartels , Jan Piewek , Thorsten Bagdonat , Tim Fingscheidt

Semantic communication, when examined through the lens of joint source-channel coding (JSCC), maps source messages directly into channel input symbols, where the measure of success is defined by end-to-end distortion rather than traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tze-Yang Tung , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan

Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding (Deep-JSCC) has emerged as a promising semantic communication approach for wireless image transmission by jointly optimizing source and channel coding using deep learning techniques. However, traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Avi Deb Raha , Apurba Adhikary , Mrityunjoy Gain , Yumin Park , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) offers a promising avenue for enhancing transmission efficiency by jointly incorporating source and channel statistics into the system design. A key advancement in this area is the deep joint source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Maojun Zhang , Haotian Wu , Guangxu Zhu , Richeng Jin , Xiaoming Chen , Deniz Gündüz

The growing demand for high-quality point cloud transmission over wireless networks presents significant challenges, primarily due to the large data sizes and the need for efficient encoding techniques. In response to these challenges, we…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Cixiao Zhang , Mufan Liu , Wenjie Huang , Yin Xu , Yiling Xu , Dazhi He

Most machine vision tasks (e.g., semantic segmentation) are based on images encoded and decoded by image compression algorithms (e.g., JPEG). However, these decoded images in the pixel domain introduce distortion, and they are optimized for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jinming Liu , Heming Sun , Jiro Katto

In this paper, we propose a novel semantic-aided image communication framework for supporting the compatibility with practical separation-based coding architectures. Particularly, the deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Mingkai Xu , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Xiang-Gen Xia , Merouane Debbah , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

Semantic-oriented communication has been considered as a promising to boost the bandwidth efficiency by only transmitting the semantics of the data. In this paper, we propose a multi-level semantic aware communication system for wireless…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Zhenguo Zhang , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Mingyang Sun , Jiming Chen

We consider image transmission via deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) over multi-hop additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels by training a DeepJSCC encoder-decoder pair with a pre-trained deep hash distillation (DHD) module…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Didrik Bergström , Deniz Gündüz , Onur Günlü

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

This paper explores the concept of information importance in multi-modal task-oriented semantic communication systems, emphasizing the need for high accuracy and efficiency to fulfill task-specific objectives. At the transmitter, generative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Yi Ma , Chunmei Xu , Zhenyu Liu , Siqi Zhang , Rahim Tafazolli

We propose Pixel-BERT to align image pixels with text by deep multi-modal transformers that jointly learn visual and language embedding in a unified end-to-end framework. We aim to build a more accurate and thorough connection between image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zhicheng Huang , Zhaoyang Zeng , Bei Liu , Dongmei Fu , Jianlong Fu

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…

Deep learning based semantic communication (DeepSC) system has emerged as a promising paradigm for efficient wireless transmission. However, existing image DeepSC methods, frequently encounter challenges in balancing rate-distortion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Yinhuan Huang , Zhijin Qin

This paper explores the integration of deep learning techniques for joint sensing and communications, with an extension to semantic communications. The integrated system comprises a transmitter and receiver operating over a wireless…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Conventional image compression methods typically aim at pixel-level consistency while ignoring the performance of downstream AI tasks.To solve this problem, this paper proposes a Semantic-Assisted Image Compression method (SAIC), which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Qizheng Sun , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Jiujiu Chen , Xijun Xue

Semantic communications has received growing interest since it can remarkably reduce the amount of data to be transmitted without missing critical information. Most existing works explore the semantic encoding and transmission for text and…

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