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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have remarkably advanced in diverse domains, especially image generation and editing. However, the misuse of GANs for generating deceptive images, such as face replacement, raises significant security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Lei Zhang , Hao Chen , Shu Hu , Bin Zhu , Ching Sheng Lin , Xi Wu , Jinrong Hu , Xin Wang

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

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

Learning a good image prior is a long-term goal for image restoration and manipulation. While existing methods like deep image prior (DIP) capture low-level image statistics, there are still gaps toward an image prior that captures rich…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Xingang Pan , Xiaohang Zhan , Bo Dai , Dahua Lin , Chen Change Loy , Ping Luo

Semantic communications leverage artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to extract semantic information for efficient data delivery, thereby significantly reducing communication cost. With the evolution towards artificial general…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Xiaojun Yuan , Haoming Ma , Yinuo Huang , Zhoufan Hua , Yong Zuo , Zhi Ding

Semantic communication represents a promising technique towards reducing communication costs, especially when dealing with image segmentation, but it still lacks a balance between computational efficiency and bandwidth requirements while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ebrahim Abu-Helalah , Jordi Serra , Jordi Perez-Romero

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis tasks as well as density estimation. Applied in the latent space of a powerful pretrained autoencoder (LDM), their immense computational requirements can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jeremias Traub

In this paper, we address the task of semantic-guided image generation. One challenge common to most existing image-level generation methods is the difficulty in generating small objects and detailed local textures. To address this, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Hao Tang , Ling Shao , Philip H. S. Torr , Nicu Sebe

Generative models have made significant progress in the tasks of modeling complex data distributions such as natural images. The introduction of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and auto-encoders lead to the possibility of training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Tobias Hinz , Stefan Wermter

We propose a unified signal compression framework that uses a generative adversarial network (GAN) to compress heterogeneous signals. The compressed signal is represented as a latent vector and fed into a generator network that is trained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Bowen Liu , Changwoo Lee , Ang Cao , Hun-Seok Kim

Generative adversarial networks (GANs)successfully generate high quality data by learning amapping from a latent vector to the data. Various studies assert that the latent space of a GAN is semanticallymeaningful and can be utilized for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Duhyeon Bang , Seoungyoon Kang , Hyunjung Shim

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have proven to be surprisingly efficient for image editing by inverting and manipulating the latent code corresponding to an input real image. This editing property emerges from the disentangled nature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Mustafa Shukor , Xu Yao , Bharath Bushan Damodaran , Pierre Hellier

Codebook-based generative semantic communication attracts increasing attention, since only indices are required to be transmitted when the codebook is shared between transmitter and receiver. However, due to the fact that the semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Peigen Ye , Yaping Sun , Shumin Yao , Hao Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Shuguang Cui

Generative adversarial networks achieve great performance in photorealistic image synthesis in various domains, including human images. However, they usually employ latent vectors that encode the sampled outputs globally. This does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Kripasindhu Sarkar , Lingjie Liu , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt

This work presents a novel semantic transmission framework in wireless networks, leveraging the joint processing technique. Our framework enables multiple cooperating base stations to efficiently transmit semantic information to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Xumin Pu , Tiantian Lei , Wanli Wen , Qianbin Chen

We propose a general method for semantic representation of images and other data using progressive coding. Semantic coding allows for specific pieces of information to be selectively encoded into a set of measurements that can be highly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Eva Riherd , Raghu Mudumbai , Weiyu Xu

Deep generative models have significantly advanced medical imaging analysis by enhancing dataset size and quality. Beyond mere data augmentation, our research in this paper highlights an additional, significant capacity of deep generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xiaodan Xing , Junzhi Ning , Yang Nan , Guang Yang

In this work, a self-attention based conditional generative adversarial network (SA-cGAN) framework for the sixth generation (6G) semantic communication system is proposed, explicitly designed to balance the trade-off between distortion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Faizan Shafi , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Sridhar Iyer

Remarkable achievements have been attained with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in image-to-image translation. However, due to a tremendous amount of parameters, state-of-the-art GANs usually suffer from low efficiency and bulky…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Linfeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Xiaobing Tu , Pengfei Wan , Ning Xu , Kaisheng Ma

Semantic communication can significantly improve bandwidth utilization in wireless systems by exploiting the meaning behind raw data. However, the advancements achieved through semantic communication are closely dependent on the development…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Loc X. Nguyen , Ji Su Yoon , Huy Q. Le , Yu Qiao , Avi Deb Raha , Eui-Nam Huh , Walid Saad , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong