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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…

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While semantic communication succeeds in efficiently transmitting due to the strong capability to extract the essential semantic information, it is still far from the intelligent or human-like communications. In this paper, we introduce an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) increasingly exposes a gap in today's channel modeling. Efficient statistical models focus on coarse communication-centric metrics, and therefore miss the weak but critical multipath signatures…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yi Chen , Yatao Hu , Ming Li , Chong Han

Digital twins are virtual systems designed to predict how a real-world process will evolve in response to interventions. This modelling paradigm holds substantial promise in many applications, but rigorous procedures for assessing their…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-03 Rob Cornish , Muhammad Faaiz Taufiq , Arnaud Doucet , Chris Holmes

As a competitive technology for 6G, semantic communications can significantly improve transmission efficiency. However, many existing semantic communication systems require information feedback during the training coding process, resulting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Kaiwen Yu , Qi He , Gang Wu

Semantic communication is emerging as the next pillar in wireless communication technology due to its transformative capabilities in reducing communication overhead, enhancing robustness, and enabling intelligent information exchange. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Loc X. Nguyen , Avi Deb Raha , Pyae Sone Aung , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Cross-technology communication (CTC) is a promising technique that enables direct communications among incompatible wireless technologies without needing hardware modification. However, it has not been widely adopted in real-world…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Shumin Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Hao Chen , Yaping Sun , Qinglin Zhao

A radical paradigm shift of wireless networks from ``connected things'' to ``connected intelligence'' undergoes, which coincides with the Shanno and Weaver's envisions: Communications will transform from the technical level to the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Yang Yang , Caili Guo , Fangfang Liu , Chuanhong Liu , Lunan Sun , Qizheng Sun , Jiujiu Chen

In smart cities, bandwidth-constrained Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) often fail to relay mission-critical data in time, compromising real-time decision-making. This highlights the need for faster and more efficient transmission of only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Poorvi Joshi , Mohan Gurusamy

Traditional communication systems focus on the transmission process, and the context-dependent meaning has been ignored. The fact that 5G system has approached Shannon limit and the increasing amount of data will cause communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Chen Dong , Haotai Liang , Xiaodong Xu , Shujun Han , Bizhu Wang , Ping Zhang

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

Semantic communications is considered as a promising technology to increase the efficiency of next-generation communication systems, particularly targeting human-machine and machine-type communications. In contrast to the source-agnostic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jialong Xu , Tze-Yang Tung , Bo Ai , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Deniz Gunduz

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

The future of wireless network generations is revolving toward unlocking the opportunities offered by virtualization and digitization services, with the aim to realize improved quality-of-experience (QoE) and bring several advantages to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Lina Bariah , Hikmet Sari , Merouane Debbah

In this paper, we develop a deep learning based semantic communication system for speech transmission, named DeepSC-ST. We take the speech recognition and speech synthesis as the transmission tasks of the communication system, respectively.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Chengkang Pan , Guangyi Liu , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic Communication (SC) is a novel paradigm for data transmission in 6G. However, there are several challenges posed when performing SC in 3D scenarios: 1) 3D semantic extraction; 2) Latent semantic redundancy; and 3) Uncertain channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Feibo Jiang , Yubo Peng , Li Dong , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan , Xiaohu You

In this study, we design a low-complexity and generalized AI model that can capture common knowledge to improve data reconstruction of the channel decoder for semantic communication. Specifically, we propose a generative adversarial network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Minh-Duong Nguyen , Quoc-Viet Pham , Nguyen H. Tran , Hoang-Khoi Do , Duy T. Ngo , Won-Joo Hwang

As one novel approach to realize end-to-end wireless image semantic transmission, deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deep JSCC) method is emerging in both deep learning and communication communities. However, current deep JSCC…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Jun Wang , Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Zhongwei Si , Dekun Zhou , Kai Niu

Empowered by deep learning, semantic communication marks a paradigm shift from transmitting raw data to conveying task-relevant meaning, enabling more efficient and intelligent wireless systems. In this study, we explore a deep…

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