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Semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than raw input symbol sequences. Task-oriented semantic communication is a variant that tries to retains only task-specific information, thus…

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Semantic communication (SemCom) systems aim to learn the mapping from low-dimensional semantics to high-dimensional ground-truth. While this is more akin to a "domain translation" problem, existing frameworks typically emphasize on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

Enabling autonomous driving (AD) can be considered one of the biggest challenges in today's technology. AD is a complex task accomplished by several functionalities, with environment perception being one of its core functions. Environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Andreas Bär , Jonas Löhdefink , Nikhil Kapoor , Serin J. Varghese , Fabian Hüger , Peter Schlicht , Tim Fingscheidt

We show that end-to-end learning of communication systems through deep neural network (DNN) autoencoders can be extremely vulnerable to physical adversarial attacks. Specifically, we elaborate how an attacker can craft effective physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Meysam Sadeghi , Erik G. Larsson

Semantic communication has gained significant attention from researchers as a promising technique to replace conventional communication in the next generation of communication systems, primarily due to its ability to reduce communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Loc X. Nguyen , Ye Lin Tun , Yan Kyaw Tun , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Chaoning Zhang , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Semantic communication is considered the future of mobile communication, which aims to transmit data beyond Shannon's theorem of communications by transmitting the semantic meaning of the data rather than the bit-by-bit reconstruction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Maheshi Lokumarambage , Vishnu Gowrisetty , Hossein Rezaei , Thushan Sivalingam , Nandana Rajatheva , Anil Fernando

Semantic communication, enabled by deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC), is widely expected to inherit the vulnerability of deep learning to adversarial perturbations. This paper challenges this prevailing belief and reveals a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Runxin Zhang , Yulin Shao , Hongyu An , Zhijin Qin , Kaibin Huang

Semantic communication (SemCom) is accelerating its momentum to catch up with the massive increase in users' demands in both quantity and quality, with the assistance of advanced deep learning (DL) techniques. Specifically, SemCom can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Loc X. Nguyen , Phuong-Nam Tran , Trung Thanh Pham , Avi Deb Raha , Eui-Nam Huh , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Backdoor attacks have severely threatened deep neural network (DNN) models in the past several years. These attacks can occur in almost every stage of the deep learning pipeline. Although the attacked model behaves normally on benign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yangming Chen

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

Recently proliferated deep learning-based semantic communications (DLSC) focus on how transmitted symbols efficiently convey a desired meaning to the destination. However, the sensitivity of neural models and the openness of wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yankai Rong , Guoshun Nan , Minwei Zhang , Sihan Chen , Songtao Wang , Xuefei Zhang , Nan Ma , Shixun Gong , Zhaohui Yang , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao , Tony Q. S. Quek

Semantic communication is focused on optimizing the exchange of information by transmitting only the most relevant data required to convey the intended message to the receiver and achieve the desired communication goal. For example, if we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Fatemeh Zahra Safaeipour , Morteza Hashemi

Semantic communication, an intelligent communication paradigm that aims to transmit useful information in the semantic domain, is facilitated by deep learning techniques. Robust semantic features can be learned and transmitted in an analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Lei Guo , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Bo Ai

Adversarial examples pose significant threats to deep neural networks (DNNs), and their property of transferability in the black-box setting has led to the emergence of transfer-based attacks, making it feasible to target real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yuyang Luo , Xiaosen Wang , Zhijin Ge , Yingzhe He

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

Nowadays, Deep learning techniques show dramatic performance on computer vision area, and they even outperform human. But it is also vulnerable to some small perturbation called an adversarial attack. This is a problem combined with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Seungju Cho , Tae Joon Jun , Byungsoo Oh , Daeyoung Kim

Recently, the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth in multi-modal communication systems requires a paradigm shift. Powered by deep learning, semantic communications are applied to multi-modal scenarios to boost communication efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Yangshuo He , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai

Deep neural networks have been shown to exhibit an intriguing vulnerability to adversarial input images corrupted with imperceptible perturbations. However, the majority of adversarial attacks assume global, fine-grained control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Ameya Joshi , Amitangshu Mukherjee , Soumik Sarkar , Chinmay Hegde

Semantic communication, leveraging advanced deep learning techniques, emerges as a new paradigm that meets the requirements of next-generation wireless networks. However, current semantic communication systems, which employ neural coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Hai-Long Qin , Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Xiaoqi Qin , Shuo Shao , Kai Niu , Wenjun Xu , Ping Zhang

End-to-end semantic communications (ESC) rely on deep neural networks (DNN) to boost communication efficiency by only transmitting the semantics of data, showing great potential for high-demand mobile applications. We argue that central to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Guoshun Nan , Zhichun Li , Jinli Zhai , Qimei Cui , Gong Chen , Xin Du , Xuefei Zhang , Xiaofeng Tao , Zhu Han , Tony Q. S. Quek