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This paper proposes a novel adaptive dual-path framework for covert semantic communication (SemCom), which integrates covert information transmission with task-oriented semantic coding. Unlike conventional covert communication methods that…

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Traditional joint source-channel coding employs static learned semantic representations that cannot dynamically adapt to evolving source distributions. Shared semantic memories between transmitter and receiver can potentially enable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Karim Nasreddine , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad

Semantic communications represent a significant breakthrough with respect to the current communication paradigm, as they focus on recovering the meaning behind the transmitted sequence of symbols, rather than the symbols themselves. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 S. Barbarossa , D. Comminiello , E. Grassucci , F. Pezone , S. Sardellitti , P. Di Lorenzo

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

The task-oriented semantic communication systems have achieved significant performance gain, however, the paradigm that employs a model for a specific task might be limited, since the system has to be updated once the task is changed or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

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 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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek

Recently, semantic communications are envisioned as a key enabler of future 6G networks. Back to Shannon's information theory, the goal of communication has long been to guarantee the correct reception of transmitted messages irrespective…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Mohamed Sana , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

In this paper, we propose a novel neural network model called RNN Encoder-Decoder that consists of two recurrent neural networks (RNN). One RNN encodes a sequence of symbols into a fixed-length vector representation, and the other decodes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Kyunghyun Cho , Bart van Merrienboer , Caglar Gulcehre , Dzmitry Bahdanau , Fethi Bougares , Holger Schwenk , Yoshua Bengio

Recent studies on semantic communication commonly rely on neural network (NN) based transceivers such as deep joint source and channel coding (DeepJSCC). Unlike traditional transceivers, these neural transceivers are trainable using actual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jinhyuk Choi , Jihong Park , Seung-Woo Ko , Jinho Choi , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

Multimodal semantic communication, which integrates various data modalities such as text, images, and audio, significantly enhances communication efficiency and reliability. It has broad application prospects in fields such as artificial…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Fei Yu , Zhe Xiang , Nan Che , Zhuoran Zhang , Yuandi Li , Junxiao Xue , Zhiguo Wan

Semantic communications are expected to become the core new paradigms of the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. Most existing works implicitly utilize channel information for codecs training, which leads to poor communications when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Lan Lin , Wenjun Xu , Fengyu Wang , Yimeng Zhang , Wei Zhang , Ping Zhang

Semantic encoders and decoders for digital semantic communication (SC) often struggle to adapt to variations in unpredictable channel environments and diverse system designs. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Yongjeong Oh , Joohyuk Park , Jinho Choi , Jihong Park , Yo-Seb Jeon

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Mingkai Xu , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Xiang-Gen Xia , Merouane Debbah , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

This paper investigates distributed source-channel coding for correlated image semantic transmission over wireless channels. In this setup, correlated images at different transmitters are separately encoded and transmitted through dedicated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao , Kai Niu

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

The growing demands of artificial intelligence and immersive media require communication beyond bit-level accuracy to meaning awareness. Conventional optical systems that focused on syntactic precision suffer significant inefficiencies.…

With the development of deep learning (DL), natural language processing (NLP) makes it possible for us to analyze and understand a large amount of language texts. Accordingly, we can achieve a semantic communication in terms of joint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Chenghui Peng , Honggang Zhang

Semantic communication (SemCom) is an emerging technology that extracts useful meaning from data and sends only relevant semantic information. Thus, it has the great potential to improve the spectrum efficiency of conventional wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Zeyang Hu , Tianyu Liu , Changsheng You , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen

Recent advances in deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) have shown promise for end-to-end semantic image transmission. However, most existing schemes primarily focus on optimizing pixel-wise metrics, which often fail to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Pujing Yang , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai