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In this work, we expand the cooperative multi-task semantic communication framework (CMT-SemCom) introduced in [1], which divides the semantic encoder on the transmitter side into a common unit (CU) and multiple specific units (SUs), to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Ahmad Halimi Razlighi , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

Semantic communication systems aim to transmit task-relevant information between devices capable of artificial intelligence, but their performance can degrade when heterogeneous transmitter-receiver models produce misaligned latent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , George C. Alexandropoulos , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Semantic communications (SemCom) is a promising task-oriented paradigm in which semantic features exhibit non-uniform importance. Consequently, unequal error protection (UEP), which allocates resources based on semantic importance, plays a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Xunyang Zhan , Jie Cao , Xu Zhu , Nikolaos Pappas , Zhijin Qin , Shaohan Feng

Semantic communications, aiming at ensuring the successful delivery of the meaning of information, are expected to be one of the potential techniques for the next generation communications. However, the knowledge forming and synchronizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuan Zheng , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Miao Pan , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication and edge-cloud collaborative intelligence are increasingly recognized as foundational enablers for next-generation intelligent services operating under stringent bandwidth, latency, and resource constraints. By…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Murdadha Nasif , Ahmed Refaey Hussein

Each generation of cellular networks is characterized by its distinct capabilities and innovations, which reflect the significant milestones reached with each new release. 5G has made substantial progress through the deployment of advanced…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Gabriella Fernandes , Hélder Fontes , Rui Campos

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on the transportation and delivery of the \emph{meaning} of messages. Recent results have verified that a graphical structure provides the most expressive and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yiwei Liao , Shurui Tu , Yujie Zhou , Dongzi Jin , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li

Today, wireless networks are becoming responsible for serving intelligent applications, such as extended reality and metaverse, holographic telepresence, autonomous transportation, and collaborative robots. Although current fifth-generation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Hassan Saadat , Abdullatif Albaseer , Mohamed Abdallah , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad

Linguistic knowledge plays a crucial role in spoken language comprehension. It provides essential semantic and syntactic context for speech perception in noisy environments. However, most speech enhancement (SE) methods predominantly rely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kuo-Hsuan Hung , Xugang Lu , Szu-Wei Fu , Huan-Hsin Tseng , Hsin-Yi Lin , Chii-Wann Lin , Yu Tsao

This paper presents an approach to enhancing Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) systems by integrating Colourful Semantics (CS) with transformer-based language models specifically tailored for Brazilian Portuguese. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jayr Pereira , Francisco Rodrigues , Jaylton Pereira , Cleber Zanchettin , Robson Fidalgo

Discrete representation has emerged as a powerful tool in task-oriented semantic communication (ToSC), offering compact, interpretable, and efficient representations well-suited for low-power edge intelligence scenarios. Its inherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Anbang Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo , Chenyuan Feng , Hongyang Du , Haojin Li , Chen Sun , Haijun Zhang

The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) is revolutionizing marine sensing and environmental monitoring, as well as subaquatic exploration, which are enabled by interconnected and intelligent subsystems. Nevertheless, underwater…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Ruhul Amin Khalil , Asiya Jehangir , Hanane Lamaazi , Sadaf Rubab , Nasir Saeed

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

This paper aims to design robust Edge Intelligence using semantic communication for time-critical IoT applications. We systematically analyze the effect of image DCT coefficients on inference accuracy and propose the channel-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Andrea Cavagna , Nan Li , Alexandros Iosifidis , Qi Zhang

Previous studies show effective of pre-trained language models for sentiment analysis. However, most of these studies ignore the importance of sentimental information for pre-trained models.Therefore, we fully investigate the sentimental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Yong Qian , Zhongqing Wang , Rong Xiao , Chen Chen , Haihong Tang

Semantic communication is proposed and expected to improve the efficiency of massive data transmission over sixth generation (6G) networks. However, existing image semantic communication schemes are primarily focused on optimizing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zehao Chen , Xinfeng Wei , Haonan Tong , Zhaohui Yang , Changchuan Yin

As the global demand for data has continued to rise exponentially, some have begun turning to the idea of semantic communication as a means of efficiently meeting this demand. Pushing beyond the boundaries of conventional communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dylan Wheeler , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

This paper introduces a novel approach to tackle the challenges of preserving and transferring tacit knowledge--deep, experience-based insights that are hard to articulate but vital for decision-making, innovation, and problem-solving.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Martin Benderoth , Patrick Gebhard , Christian Keller , C. Benjamin Nakhosteen , Stefan Schaffer , Tanja Schneeberger

Deep learning based semantic communication (DeepSC) system has emerged as a promising paradigm for efficient wireless transmission. However, existing image DeepSC methods, frequently encounter challenges in balancing rate-distortion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Yinhuan Huang , Zhijin Qin

By integrating recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and generative models into the emerging semantic communication (SC) paradigm, in this article we put forward to a novel framework of language-oriented semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim