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We present DeepWiVe, the first-ever end-to-end joint source-channel coding (JSCC) video transmission scheme that leverages the power of deep neural networks (DNNs) to directly map video signals to channel symbols, combining video…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Tze-Yang Tung , Deniz Gündüz

This paper introduces Implicit-JSCC, a novel overfitted joint source-channel coding paradigm that directly optimizes channel symbols and a lightweight neural decoder for each source. This instance-specific strategy eliminates the need for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Haotian Wu , Gen Li , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gündüz

We study joint source-channel coding (JSCC) of compressed sensing (CS) measurements using vector quantizer (VQ). We develop a framework for realizing optimum JSCC schemes that enable encoding and transmitting CS measurements of a sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Amirpasha Shirazinia , Saikat Chatterjee , Mikael Skoglund

Many wireless vision applications, such as autonomous driving, require preservation of global structural information rather than only per-pixel fidelity. However, existing Deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) schemes mainly optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Omar Erak , Omar Alhussein , Fang Fang , Sami Muhaidat

Depthwise separable convolutional (DSConv) layers have been successfully applied to deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) schemes to reduce computational complexity. However, a systematic investigation of the layerwise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Ming Ye , Kui Cai , Cunhua Pan , Zhen Mei , Wanting Yang , Chunguo Li

Analog joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has demonstrated superior performance for semantic communications through graceful degradation across channel conditions. However, a fundamental hardware-software mismatch prevents deployment on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Shumin Yao , Hao Chen , Yaping Sun , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu , Qinglin Zhao , Shuguang Cui

The increased throughput brought by MIMO technology relies on the knowledge of channel state information (CSI) acquired in the base station (BS). To make the CSI feedback overhead affordable for the evolution of MIMO technology (e.g.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jialong Xu , Bo Ai , Ning Wang , Wei Chen

In this paper, we introduce an innovative hierarchical joint source-channel coding (HJSCC) framework for image transmission, utilizing a hierarchical variational autoencoder (VAE). Our approach leverages a combination of bottom-up and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Guangyi Zhang , Hanlei Li , Yunlong Cai , Qiyu Hu , Guanding Yu , Runmin Zhang

Semantic communications (SCs) play a central role in shaping the future of the sixth generation (6G) wireless systems, which leverage rapid advances in deep learning (DL). In this regard, end-to-end optimized DL-based joint source-channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mahmoud M. Salim , Mohamed S. Abdalzaher , Ali H. Muqaibel , Hussein A. Elsayed , Inkyu Lee

This paper investigates a key challenge faced by joint source-channel coding (JSCC) in digital semantic communication (SemCom): the incompatibility between existing JSCC schemes that yield continuous encoded representations and digital…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yujie Zhou , Rulong Wang , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi

Coping with the impact of dynamic channels is a critical issue in joint source-channel coding (JSCC)-based semantic communication systems. In this paper, we propose a lightweight channel-adaptive semantic coding architecture called…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Hongwei Zhang , Meixia Tao

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 knowledge bases are regarded as a promising technology for upcoming 6G communications. However, existing studies mainly focus on source-side semantic modeling while overlooking the structural impact of propagation environments on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xudong Long , Hao Chen , Dan Wang , Chen Qiu , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu , Yubin Zhao

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

Deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for semantic communication, delivering significant performance gains over conventional separate coding schemes. However, existing JSCC frameworks remain vulnerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Changyuan Zhao , Jiacheng Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Hongyang Du , Zehui Xiong , Dong In Kim , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication has emerged as a new paradigm to facilitate the performance of integrated sensing and communication systems in 6G. However, most of the existing works mainly focus on sensing data compression to reduce the subsequent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Haotian Wang , Dan Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Chuan Huang , Hao Chen , Nan Ma

The signal recovery performance of the rectangular-type Analog Joint Source-Channel Coding (AJSCC) is analyzed in this work for high and medium/low Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) scenarios in the wireless sensing systems. The analysis and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-03 Xueyuan Zhao , Vidyasagar Sadhu , Dario Pompili

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 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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Danlan Huang , Feifei Gao , Xiaoming Tao , Qiyuan Du , Jianhua Lu

In this paper, delay-free, low complexity, joint source-channel coding (JSCC) for transmission of two correlated Gaussian memoryless sources over a Gaussian Multiple Access Channel (GMAC) is considered. The main contributions of the paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Paal Anders Floor , Anna N. Kim , Niklas Wernersson , Tor A. Ramstad , Mikael Skoglund , Ilangko Balasingham