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Metaverse over wireless networks is an emerging use case of the sixth generation (6G) wireless systems, posing unprecedented challenges in terms of its multi-modal data transmissions with stringent latency and reliability requirements.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim , Mehdi Bennis

With the emergence of diverse and massive data in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) networks, the task-agnostic semantic communication system is regarded to provide robust intelligent services. In this paper, we propose a task-agnostic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shiyao Jiang , Jian Jiao , Xingjian Zhang , Ye Wang , Dusit Niyato , Qinyu Zhang

In Shannon theory, semantic aspects of communication were identified but considered irrelevant to the technical communication problems. Semantic communication (SC) techniques have recently attracted renewed research interests in (6G)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Jinho Choi

Establishing semantic correspondence is a challenging task in computer vision, aiming to match keypoints with the same semantic information across different images. Benefiting from the rapid development of deep learning, remarkable progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Kaiyan Zhang , Xinghui Li , Jingyi Lu , Kai Han

With the advent of the 6G era, the concept of semantic communication has attracted increasing attention. Compared with conventional communication systems, semantic communication systems are not only affected by physical noise existing in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Xiang Peng , Zhijin Qin , Danlan Huang , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu , Guangyi Liu , Chengkang Pan

Multimodal signals, including text, audio, image, and video, can be integrated into Semantic Communication (SC) systems to provide an immersive experience with low latency and high quality at the semantic level. However, the multimodal SC…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Feibo Jiang , Li Dong , Yubo Peng , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan , Xiaohu You

With the proliferation of edge computing, efficient AI inference on edge devices has become essential for intelligent applications such as autonomous vehicles and VR/AR. In this context, we address the problem of efficient remote object…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Xiangyu Gao , Yaping Sun , Dongyu Wei , Xiaodong Xu , Hao Chen , Hao Yin , Shuguang Cui

In this paper, we propose a new wireless video communication scheme to achieve high-efficiency video transmission over noisy channels. It exploits the idea of model division multiple access (MDMA) and extracts common semantic features…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zhicheng Bao , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu , Geng Liu

Task-oriented semantic communication (ToSC) emerges as an innovative approach in the 6G landscape, characterized by the transmission of only vital information that is directly pertinent to a specific task. While ToSC offers an efficient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Shuaishuai Guo , Anbang Zhang , Yanhu Wang , Chenyuan Feng , Tony Q. S. Quek

With the booming development of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a new paradigm for reliable and efficient communication. This paper considers a multi-user downlink SemCom system,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jiayi Lu , Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Rahim Tafazolli , Tony Q. S. Quek , Mérouane Debbah , Dong In Kim

Although semantic communications have exhibited satisfactory performance for a large number of tasks, the impact of semantic noise and the robustness of the systems have not been well investigated. Semantic noise refers to the misleading…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Qiyu Hu , Guangyi Zhang , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Geoffrey Ye Li

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

Driven by the vision of "intelligent connection of everything" toward 6G, the collective intelligence of networked machines can be fully exploited to improve system efficiency by shifting the paradigm of wireless communication design from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Ping Zhang , Heng Yang , Zhiyong Feng , Yanpeng Cui , Jincheng Dai , Xiaoqi Qin , Jinglin Li , Qixun Zhang

Achieving more powerful semantic representations and semantic understanding is one of the key problems in improving the performance of semantic communication systems. This work focuses on enhancing the semantic understanding of the text…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Mengli Tao , Jiancun Fan , Jie Luo , Huiqiang Xie

Although existing semantic communication systems have achieved great success, they have not considered that the channel is time-varying wherein deep fading occurs occasionally. Moreover, the importance of each semantic feature differs from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-08 Kequan Zhou , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai , Qiyu Hu , Guanding Yu

The emergence of the metaverse has boosted productivity and creativity, driving real-time updates and personalized content, which will substantially increase data traffic. However, current bit-oriented communication networks struggle to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Zhe Wang , Nan Li , Yansha Deng , A. Hamid Aghvami

Semantic communications seeks to transfer information from a source while conveying a desired meaning to its destination. We model the transmitter-receiver functionalities as an autoencoder followed by a task classifier that evaluates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

Semantic communications for multi-modal data can transmit task-relevant information efficiently over noisy and bandwidth-limited channels. However, a key challenge is to simultaneously compress inter-modal redundancy and improve semantic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Jingwen Fu , Ming Xiao , Zhonghao Lyu , Mikael Skoglund , Celimuge Wu

Multi-task semantic communication can serve multiple learning tasks using a shared encoder model. Existing models have overlooked the intricate relationships between features extracted during an encoding process of tasks. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xi Yu , Tiejun Lv , Weicai Li , Wei Ni , Dusit Niyato , Ekram Hossain

Randomly masking and predicting word tokens has been a successful approach in pre-training language models for a variety of downstream tasks. In this work, we observe that the same idea also applies naturally to sequential decision-making,…