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Semantic communication is designed to tackle issues like bandwidth constraints and high latency in communication systems. However, in complex network topologies with multiple users, the enormous combinations of client data and channel state…

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Semantic communication in the 6G era has been deemed a promising communication paradigm to break through the bottleneck of traditional communications. However, its applications for the multi-user scenario, especially the broadcasting case,…

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Driven by the ultra-high throughput requirements of 6G, wireless communications are migrating to centimeter wave (cmWave) bands to overcome the limitations of current spectral resources. Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and…

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We consider multi-user semantic communications over broadcast channels. While most existing works consider that each receiver requires either the same or independent semantic information, this paper explores the scenario where the semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yufei Bo , Shuo Shao , Meixia tao

In recent years, there has been significant progress in semantic communication systems empowered by deep learning techniques. It has greatly improved the efficiency of information transmission. Nevertheless, traditional semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Zengle Zhu , Rongqing Zhang , Xiang Cheng , Liuqing Yang

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

Recent advancements in semantic communication have primarily focused on image transmission, where neural network-based joint source-channel coding modules play a central role. However, such systems often experience semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Yoon Huh , Bumjun Kim , Wan Choi

Near-space airship-borne communication network is recognized to be an indispensable component of the future integrated ground-air-space network thanks to airships' advantage of long-term residency at stratospheric altitudes, but it urgently…

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Semantic communication (SemCom) demonstrates strong superiority over conventional bit-level accurate transmission, by only attempting to recover the essential semantic information of data. In this paper, in order to tackle the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Siyu Tong , Xiaoxue Yu , Rongpeng Li , Kun Lu , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Yoon Huh , Bumjun Kim , Wan Choi

Semantic communication has become a popular research area due its high spectrum efficiency and error-correction performance. Some studies use deep learning to extract semantic features, which usually form end-to-end semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Image fusion aims to blend complementary information from multiple sensing modalities, yet existing approaches remain limited in robustness, adaptability, and controllability. Most current fusion networks are tailored to specific tasks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiayang Li , Chengjie Jiang , Junjun Jiang , Pengwei Liang , Jiayi Ma , Liqiang Nie

Semantic communication is an increasingly popular framework for wireless image transmission due to its high communication efficiency. With the aid of the joint-source-and-channel (JSC) encoder implemented by neural network, semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Maojun Zhang , Yang Li , Zezhong Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Caijun Zhong

This work presents a novel semantic transmission framework in wireless networks, leveraging the joint processing technique. Our framework enables multiple cooperating base stations to efficiently transmit semantic information to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Xumin Pu , Tiantian Lei , Wanli Wen , Qianbin Chen

Reliable image transmission over wireless channels is particularly challenging at extremely low transmission rates, where conventional compression and channel coding schemes fail to preserve adequate visual quality. To address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shengkang Chen , Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Feng Yang , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

Existing fusion methods are tailored for high-quality images but struggle with degraded images captured under harsh circumstances, thus limiting the practical potential of image fusion. This work presents a \textbf{D}egradation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Linfeng Tang , Chunyu Li , Guoqing Wang , Yixuan Yuan , Jiayi Ma

Semantic communications focus on the transmission of semantic features. In this letter, we consider a task-oriented multi-user semantic communication system for multimodal data transmission. Particularly, partial users transmit images while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

The rapid development of artificial intelligence has driven smart health with next-generation wireless communication technologies, stimulating exciting applications in remote diagnosis and intervention. To enable a timely and effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Fupei Guo , Hao Zheng , Xiang Zhang , Li Chen , Yue Wang , Songyang Zhang

Satellite-terrestrial communications are severely constrained by high path loss, limited spectrum resources, and time-varying channel conditions, rendering conventional bit-level transmission schemes inefficient and fragile, particularly in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jinghong Huang , Mengying Sun , Xiaodong Xu , Jianchi Zhu , Zechuan Fang , Jingxuan Zhang , Ruichen Zhang , Chen Dong , Ping Zhang , Dusit Niyato

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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