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Image fusion methods and metrics for their evaluation have conventionally used pixel-based or low-level features. However, for many applications, the aim of image fusion is to effectively combine the semantic content of the input images.…

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Semantic communication is recognized for its high compression efficiency and robust resistance to noise. However, utilizing a fixed transmission rate in environments with dynamic signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) often results in inefficient use…

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Research in semantic communication has garnered considerable attention, particularly in the area of image transmission, where joint source-channel coding (JSCC)-based neural network (NN) modules are frequently employed. However, these…

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Semantic communications utilize the transceiver computing resources to alleviate scarce transmission resources, such as bandwidth and energy. Although the conventional deep learning (DL) based designs may achieve certain transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Shuai Ma , Weining Qiao , Youlong Wu , Hang Li , Guangming Shi , Dahua Gao , Yuanming Shi , Shiyin Li , Naofal Al-Dhahir

A large body of recent work targets semantically conditioned image generation. Most such methods focus on the narrower task of pose transfer and ignore the more challenging task of subject transfer that consists in not only transferring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Nicolas Dufour , David Picard , Vicky Kalogeiton

The growing demand for efficient semantic communication systems capable of managing diverse tasks and adapting to fluctuating channel conditions has driven the development of robust, resource-efficient frameworks. This article introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Xiang Chen , Shuying Gan , Chenyuan Feng , Xijun Wang , Tony Q. S. Quek

Semantic communication emphasizes the transmission of meaning rather than raw symbols. It offers a promising solution to alleviate network congestion and improve transmission efficiency. In this paper, we propose a wireless image…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Chen Zhu , Siyun Liang , Zhouxiang Zhao , Jianrong Bao , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Task-oriented semantic communications have achieved significant performance gains. However, the employed deep neural networks in semantic communications have to be updated when the task is changed or multiple models need to be stored for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Xiaoming Tao

Semantic communications are expected to be an innovative solution to the emerging intelligent applications in the era of connected intelligence. In this paper, a novel scalable multitask semantic communication system with feature importance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Jiangjing Hu , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Hui Gao , Ping Zhang

Deep learning draws heavily on the latest progress in semantic communications. The present paper aims to examine the security aspect of this cutting-edge technique from a novel shuffling perspective. Our goal is to improve upon the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Fupei Chen , Liyao Xiang , Haoxiang Sun , Hei Victor Cheng , Kaiming Shen

This letter proposes a novel relaying framework, semantic-forward (SF), for cooperative communications towards the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. The SF relay extracts and transmits the semantic features, which reduces forwarding…

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In this paper, we focus on exploring effective methods for faster and accurate semantic segmentation. A common practice to improve the performance is to attain high-resolution feature maps with strong semantic representation. Two strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Xiangtai Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yibo Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Kuiyuan Yang , Yunhai Tong , Dacheng Tao

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

Semantic communication represents a promising technique towards reducing communication costs, especially when dealing with image segmentation, but it still lacks a balance between computational efficiency and bandwidth requirements while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ebrahim Abu-Helalah , Jordi Serra , Jordi Perez-Romero

Semantic communication (SemCom) with learned encoder-decoder architectures enables end-to-end learning of compact task-oriented representations optimized for the wireless channel, reducing channel resources needed to convey task-relevant…

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Semantic communications are expected to enable the more effective delivery of meaning rather than a precise transfer of symbols. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep neural network-based architecture for image transmission and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Hanju Yoo , Taehun Jung , Linglong Dai , Songkuk Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae

With the evolution of 6G, semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm by prioritizing the delivery of task-relevant meaning over strict bit-level correctness. However, existing transport mechanisms still rely on explicit port…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Yunhao Wang , Shuai Ma , Bin Shen , Shouhan Shi , Youlong Wu , Guangming Shi , Xiang Cheng

Though achieving marvelous progress in various scenarios, existing semantic communication frameworks mainly consider single-input single-output Gaussian channels or Rayleigh fading channels, neglecting the widely-used multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Bingyan Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Wenjun Zhang , Shuguang Cui , Merouane Debbah

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…

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