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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

Modern communications are usually designed to pursue a higher bit-level precision and fewer bits while transmitting a message. This article rethinks these two major features and introduces the concept and advantage of semantics that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Kun Lu , Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Jianjun Wu , Honggang Zhang

Semantic communications (SemComs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for joint data and task-oriented transmissions, combining the demands for both the bit-accurate delivery and end-to-end (E2E) distortion minimization. However, current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dongxu Li , Kai Yuan , Jianhao Huang , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Shuguang Cui , Ping Zhang

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

In this paper, we propose a class of high-efficiency deep joint source-channel coding methods that can closely adapt to the source distribution under the nonlinear transform, it can be collected under the name nonlinear transform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Kailin Tan , Zhongwei Si , Xiaoqi Qin , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Recent studies in joint source-channel coding (JSCC) have fostered a fresh paradigm in end-to-end semantic communication. Despite notable performance achievements, present initiatives in building semantic communication systems primarily…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Guangyi Zhang , Pujing Yang , Yunlong Cai , Qiyu Hu , Guanding Yu

Semantic communication technology emerges as a pivotal bridge connecting AI with classical communication. The current semantic communication systems are generally modeled as an Auto-Encoder (AE). AE lacks a deep integration of AI principles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Yulong Feng , Jing Xu , Liujun Hu , Guanghui Yu , Xiangyang Duan

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

Semantic communications could improve the transmission efficiency significantly by exploring the semantic information. In this paper, we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin

The emerging field semantic communication is driving the research of end-to-end data transmission. By utilizing the powerful representation ability of deep learning models, learned data transmission schemes have exhibited superior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Ke Yang , Kailin Tan , Xiaoqi Qin , Zhongwei Si , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) is expected to be a key technique for {the} next-generation wireless networks. However, the existing DJSCC schemes still face the challenge of channel adaptability as they are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Songjie Xie , Hengtao He , Hongru Li , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

In recent developments, deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) for wireless image transmission has made significant strides in performance enhancement. Nonetheless, the majority of existing DL-based JSCC methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Junyu Pan , Hanlei Li , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

Recent works have shown that joint source-channel coding (JSCC) schemes using deep neural networks (DNNs), called DeepJSCC, provide promising results in wireless image transmission. However, these methods mostly focus on the distortion of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Ecenaz Erdemir , Tze-Yang Tung , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gunduz

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

Recent progress in deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) has led to a new paradigm of semantic communications. Two salient features of DeepJSCC-based semantic communications are the exploitation of semantic-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Yulin Shao , Deniz Gunduz

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

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are a promising solution for autonomous exploration tasks in hazardous or remote environments, such as planetary surveys. In such settings, communication among agents is essential to ensure collaborative task…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Maximilian H. V. Tillmann , Ban-Sok Shin , Dmitriy Shutin , Armin Dekorsy

Along with the proliferating research interest in Semantic Communication (SemCom), Joint Source Channel Coding (JSCC) has dominated the attention due to the widely assumed existence in efficiently delivering information semantics.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tianqi Ren , Rongpeng Li , Ming-min Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Guangyi Liu , Yang Yang , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

This paper investigates distributed source-channel coding for correlated image semantic transmission over wireless channels. In this setup, correlated images at different transmitters are separately encoded and transmitted through dedicated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao , Kai Niu

Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is a promising paradigm for next-generation communication systems, particularly in challenging transmission environments. In this paper, we propose a novel standard-compatible JSCC framework for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xue Han , Yongpeng Wu , Zhen Gao , Biqian Feng , Yuxuan Shi , Deniz Gündüz , Wenjun Zhang