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Deep learning-based semantic communication has largely relied on analog or semi-digital transmission, which limits compatibility with modern digital communication infrastructures. Recent studies have employed vector quantization (VQ) to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Zian Meng , Qiang Li , Wenqian Tang , Mingdie Yan , Xiaohu Ge

Recent studies in joint source-channel coding (JSCC) have fostered a fresh paradigm in end-to-end semantic communication. Despite notable performance achievements, present initiatives in building semantic communication systems primarily…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Guangyi Zhang , Pujing Yang , Yunlong Cai , Qiyu Hu , Guanding Yu

Semantic communication can improve transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information. However, under packet-based communication protocols, any error typically results in the loss of an entire packet, making semantic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Xiao Yang , Shuai Ma , Yong Liang , Guangming Shi

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 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 communications (SemCom) have emerged as a new paradigm for supporting sixth-generation applications, where semantic features of data are transmitted using artificial intelligence algorithms to attain high communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Jianhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Chuan Huang , Kaibin Huang

Semantic communication, notable for ensuring quality of service by jointly optimizing source and channel coding, effectively extracts data semantics, reduces transmission length, and mitigates channel noise. However, most studies overlook…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Loc X. Nguyen , Kitae Kim , Ye Lin Tun , Sheikh Salman Hassan , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Semantic communications have emerged as a new paradigm for improving communication efficiency by transmitting the semantic information of a source message that is most relevant to a desired task at the receiver. Most existing approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yufei Bo , Yiheng Duan , Shuo Shao , Meixia Tao

Molecular communication (MC) provides a foundational framework for information transmission in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT), where efficiency and reliability are crucial. However, the inherent limitations of molecular channels,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Hanlin Cai , Ozgur B. Akan

As communication systems transition from symbol transmission to conveying meaningful information, sixth-generation (6G) networks emphasize semantic communication. This approach prioritizes high-level semantic information, improving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Zhe Xiang , Fei Yu , Quan Deng , Yuandi Li , Zhiguo Wan

Semantic communication (SC) offers promising advancements in data transmission efficiency and reliability by focusing on delivering true meaning rather than solely binary bits of messages. However, privacy concerns in SC might become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xuesong Liu , Yao Sun , Runze Cheng , Le Xia , Hanaa Abumarshoud , Lei Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran

In recent years, with the rapid development of deep learning and natural language processing technologies, semantic communication has become a topic of great interest in the field of communication. Although existing deep learning-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bingyan Wang , Rongpeng Li , Jianhang Zhu , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

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

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

Precise and accurate predictions over boundary areas are essential for semantic segmentation. However, the commonly-used convolutional operators tend to smooth and blur local detail cues, making it difficult for deep models to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Haoru Tan , Sitong Wu , Jimin Pi

Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is an effective approach for semantic communication. However, current JSCC methods are difficult to integrate with existing communication network architectures, where application and network providers are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Wenzheng Kong , Wenyi Zhang

Semantic communication, regarded as the breakthrough beyond the Shannon paradigm, aims at the successful transmission of semantic information conveyed by the source rather than the accurate reception of each single symbol or bit regardless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu , Wen Tong , Geoffrey Ye Li

We consider a semantic communication system for speech signals, named DeepSC-S. Motivated by the breakthroughs in deep learning (DL), we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

With the rapid growth of intelligent services, communication targets are shifting from humans to artificial intelligent (AI) agents, which require new paradigms to enable real-time perception, decision-making, and collaboration. Semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kaiwen Yu , Mengying Sun , Zhijin Qin , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Yang , Yue Xiao , Gang Wu

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless systems, improving the communication efficiency by transmitting high-level semantic features. However, reliance on unimodal representations can degrade…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Haoran Chang , Mingzhe Chen , Huaxia Wang , Qianqian Zhang