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Semantic communication has become a popular research area due its high spectrum efficiency and error-correction performance. Some studies use deep learning to extract semantic features, which usually form end-to-end semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic communication has shown great potential in boosting the effectiveness and reliability of communications. However, its systems to date are mostly enabled by deep learning, which requires demanding computing resources. This article…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Zhijin Qin , Jingkai Ying , Dingxi Yang , Hengjiang Wang , Xiaoming Tao

Visual semantic correspondence is an important topic in computer vision and could help machine understand objects in our daily life. However, most previous methods directly train on correspondences in 2D images, which is end-to-end but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yang You , Chengkun Li , Yujing Lou , Zhoujun Cheng , Lizhuang Ma , Cewu Lu , Weiming Wang

Semantic communications have been envisioned as a potential technique that goes beyond Shannon paradigm. Unlike modern communications that provide bit-level security, the eaves-dropping of semantic communications poses a significant risk of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yongkang Li , Zheng Shi , Han Hu , Yaru Fu , Hong Wang , Hongjiang Lei

Semantic communication is a promising technique for emerging wireless applications, which reduces transmission overhead by transmitting only task-relevant features instead of raw data. However, existing methods struggle under extremely low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Peiwen Jiang , Jiajia Guo , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

The development of emerging applications, such as autonomous transportation systems, are expected to result in an explosive growth in mobile data traffic. As the available spectrum resource becomes more and more scarce, there is a growing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Wanting Yang , Zi Qin Liew , Wei Yang Bryan Lim , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Xuefen Chi , Xianbin Cao , Khaled B. Letaief

Semantic communication is an emerging research area that has gained a wide range of attention recently. Despite this growing interest, there remains a notable absence of a comprehensive and widely-accepted framework for characterizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yulin Shao , Qi Cao , Deniz Gunduz

Information theory has provided foundations for the theories of several application areas critical for modern society, including communications, computer storage, and AI. A key aspect of Shannon's 1948 theory is a sharp lower bound on the…

As early as 1949, Weaver defined communication in a very broad sense to include all procedures by which one mind or technical system can influence another, thus establishing the idea of semantic communication. With the recent success of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Edgar Beck , Hsuan-Yu Lin , Patrick Rückert , Yongping Bao , Bettina von Helversen , Sebastian Fehrler , Kirsten Tracht , Armin Dekorsy

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

Shannon information theory is established based on probability and bits, and the communication technology based on this theory realizes the information age. The original goal of Shannon's information theory is to describe and transmit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Guangming Shi , Dahua Gao , Shuai Ma , Minxi Yang , Yong Xiao , Xuemei Xie

A group of transition probability functions form a Shannon's channel whereas a group of truth functions form a semantic channel. By the third kind of Bayes' theorem, we can directly convert a Shannon's channel into an optimized semantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Chenguang Lu

One can study communications by using Shannon's (1948) mathematical theory of communication. In social communications, however, the channels are not "fixed", but themselves subject to change. Communication systems change by communicating…

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Semantic communication enables intelligent agents to extract meaning (or semantics) of information via interaction, to carry out collaborative tasks. In this paper, we study semantic communication from a topological space perspective, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Qiyang Zhao , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , Daniel Benevides da Costa

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless systems, improving the communication efficiency by transmitting high-level semantic features. However, reliance on unimodal representations can degrade…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Haoran Chang , Mingzhe Chen , Huaxia Wang , Qianqian Zhang

Semantic communications are considered a promising beyond-Shannon/bit paradigm to reduce network traffic and increase reliability, thus making wireless networks more energy efficient, robust, and sustainable. However, the performance is…

Semantic communication has attracted significant interest recently due to its capability to meet the fast growing demand on user-defined and human-oriented communication services such as holographic communications, eXtended reality (XR),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jingxuan Chai , Yong Xiao , Guangming Shi , Walid Saad

Semantic communication is widely touted as a key technology for propelling the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. However, providing effective semantic representation is quite challenging in practice. To address this issue, this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jinke Ren , Zezhong Zhang , Jie Xu , Guanying Chen , Yaping Sun , Ping Zhang , Shuguang Cui

With the rapid growth of intelligent services, communication targets are shifting from humans to artificial intelligent (AI) agents, which require new paradigms to enable real-time perception, decision-making, and collaboration. Semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kaiwen Yu , Mengying Sun , Zhijin Qin , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Yang , Yue Xiao , Gang Wu

Semantic communications, aiming at ensuring the successful delivery of the meaning of information, are expected to be one of the potential techniques for the next generation communications. However, the knowledge forming and synchronizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuan Zheng , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Miao Pan , Ping Zhang