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The traditional communications transmit all the source data represented by bits, regardless of the content of source and the semantic information required by the receiver. However, in some applications, the receiver only needs part of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic communication is a new paradigm for information transmission that integrates the essential meaning (semantics) of the message into the communication process. However, like in classic wireless communications, the open nature of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Denis Kozlov , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated exceptional performance on most recognition tasks such as image classification and segmentation. However, they have also been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. This phenomenon has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Anurag Arnab , Ondrej Miksik , Philip H. S. Torr

State-of-the-art deep neural networks have proven to be highly powerful in a broad range of tasks, including semantic image segmentation. However, these networks are vulnerable against adversarial attacks, i.e., non-perceptible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Kira Maag , Asja Fischer

Semantic communication aims to convey meaning rather than bit-perfect reproduction, representing a paradigm shift from traditional communication. This paper investigates distribution learning in semantic communication where receivers must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Samer Lahoud , Kinda Khawam

Semantic communication aims to transmit information most relevant to a task rather than raw data, offering significant gains in communication efficiency for applications such as telepresence, augmented reality, and remote sensing. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Matin Mortaheb , Erciyes Karakaya , Sennur Ulukus

Semantic communications represent a new paradigm of next-generation networking that shifts bit-wise data delivery to conveying the semantic meanings for bandwidth efficiency. To effectively accommodate various potential downstream tasks at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Fupei Guo , Achintha Wijesinghe , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in various recognition tasks. However, recently DNNs have been shown to be vulnerable against adversarial examples, which can mislead DNNs to make arbitrary incorrect predictions. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Chaowei Xiao , Ruizhi Deng , Bo Li , Fisher Yu , Mingyan Liu , Dawn Song

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

Machine learning has been widely applied in wireless communications. However, the security aspects of machine learning in wireless applications have not been well understood yet. We consider the case that a cognitive transmitter senses the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yi Shi , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Jason H. Li

Recently proliferated semantic communications (SC) aim at effectively transmitting the semantics conveyed by the source and accurately interpreting the meaning at the destination. While such a paradigm holds the promise of making wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xinghan Liu , Guoshun Nan , Qimei Cui , Zeju Li , Peiyuan Liu , Zebin Xing , Hanqing Mu , Xiaofeng Tao , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, a novel covert semantic communication framework is investigated. Within this framework, a server extracts and transmits the semantic information, i.e., the meaning of image data, to a user over several time slots. An attacker…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenjing Zhang , Ye Hu , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Mingzhe Chen

Semantic communication is implemented based on shared background knowledge, but the sharing mechanism risks privacy leakage. In this letter, we propose an encrypted semantic communication system (ESCS) for privacy preserving, which combines…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xinlai Luo , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao , Feng Yang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to the \emph{backdoor attack}, which intends to embed hidden backdoors in DNNs by poisoning training data. The attacked model behaves normally on benign samples, whereas its prediction will be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yiming Li , Yanjie Li , Yalei Lv , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

Semantic communication (SemCom) has the potential to significantly reduce communication delay in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications within vehicular networks (VNs). However, the deployment of vehicular SemCom networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yanghe Pan , Yuntao Wang , Shaolong Guo , Chengyu Yin , Ruidong Li , Zhou Su , Yuan Wu

Semantic communication is emerging as a key paradigm for 6G networks, where the goal is not to perfectly reconstruct bits but to preserve the meaning that matters for a given task. This shift can improve bandwidth efficiency, robustness,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tuğçe Bilen , Ian F. Akyildiz

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness across a wide range of tasks such as semantic segmentation. Nevertheless, these networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks that add imperceptible perturbations to the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Kira Maag , Roman Resner , Asja Fischer

Although the semantic communications have exhibited satisfactory performance in a large number of tasks, the impact of semantic noise and the robustness of the systems have not been well investigated. Semantic noise is a particular kind of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Qiyu Hu , Guangyi Zhang , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic communications have emerged as a new paradigm for improving communication efficiency by transmitting the semantic information of a source message that is most relevant to a desired task at the receiver. Most existing approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yufei Bo , Yiheng Duan , Shuo Shao , Meixia Tao

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a key technology for the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) network, attributed to its enhanced communication efficiency and robustness against channel noise. However, the open nature of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Shunpu Tang , Chen Liu , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Dusit Niyato