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Existing techniques to adapt semantic segmentation networks across the source and target domains within deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) deal with all the samples from the two domains in a global or category-aware manner. They do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Minsu Kim , Sunghun Joung , Seungryong Kim , JungIn Park , Ig-Jae Kim , Kwanghoon Sohn

Internet of Things (IoT) networks face significant challenges such as limited communication bandwidth, constrained computational and energy resources, and highly dynamic wireless channel conditions. Utilization of deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Soroosh Miri , Sepehr Abolhasani , Shahrokh Farahmand , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

Unsupervised domain adaptation without consuming annotation process for unlabeled target data attracts appealing interests in semantic segmentation. However, 1) existing methods neglect that not all semantic representations across domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jiahua Dong , Yang Cong , Gan Sun , Yuyang Liu , Xiaowei Xu

Most existing semantic communication systems employ analog modulation, which is incompatible with modern digital communication systems. Although several digital transmission approaches have been proposed to address this issue, an end-to-end…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Jianhua Mo , Meixia Tao

Transformers, known for their attention mechanisms, have proven highly effective in focusing on critical elements within complex data. This feature can effectively be used to address the time-varying channels in wireless communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Matin Mortaheb , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour , Sennur Ulukus

Semantic communications have been envisioned as a potential technique that goes beyond Shannon paradigm. Unlike modern communications that provide bit-level security, the eaves-dropping of semantic communications poses a significant risk of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yongkang Li , Zheng Shi , Han Hu , Yaru Fu , Hong Wang , Hongjiang Lei

As three-dimensional (3D) data acquisition devices become increasingly prevalent, the demand for 3D point cloud transmission is growing. In this study, we introduce a semantic-aware communication system for robust point cloud classification…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-26 Tianxiao Han , Kaiyi Chi , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi

Quantum communication networks (QCNs) utilize quantum mechanics for secure information transmission, but the reliance on fragile and expensive photonic quantum resources renders QCN resource optimization challenging. Unlike prior QCN works…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Mahdi Chehimi , Christina Chaccour , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Walid Saad

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 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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Fatemeh Zahra Safaeipour , Morteza Hashemi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) excel on fixed datasets but struggle with incremental and shifting data in real-world scenarios. Continual learning addresses this challenge by allowing models to learn from new data while retaining previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Lu Yu , Zhe Tao , Dipam Goswami , Hantao Yao , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Joost Van de Weijer , Changsheng Xu

Compared with the current Shannon's Classical Information Theory (CIT) paradigm, semantic communication (SemCom) has recently attracted more attention, since it aims to transmit the meaning of information rather than bit-by-bit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Bingxuan Xu , Rui Meng , Yue Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Chen Dong , Hao Sun

In this paper, we explore semantic clustering properties of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to improve its interpretability and deepen our understanding of its internal semantic organization. In this context, semantic clustering refers to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Liang Zhang , Justin Lieffers , Adarsh Pyarelal

Point cloud, as a 3D representation, is widely used in autonomous driving, virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). However, traditional communication systems think that the point cloud's semantic information is irrelevant to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Xiaoyi Liu , Haotai Liang , Zhicheng Bao , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu

In existing semantic communication systems for image transmission, some images are generally reconstructed with considerably low quality. As a result, the reliable transmission of each image cannot be guaranteed, bringing significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

Recently, deep learning enabled semantic communications have been developed to understand transmission content from semantic level, which realize effective and accurate information transfer. Aiming to the vision of sixth generation (6G)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Zhengyu Zhang , Ruisi He , Mi Yang , Xuejian Zhang , Ziyi Qi , Yuan Yuan , Bo Ai

Existing communication systems are mainly built based on Shannon's information theory which deliberately ignores the semantic aspects of communication. The recent iteration of wireless technology, the so-called 5G and beyond, promises to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Guangming Shi , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Xuemei Xie

The expanding scale of neural networks poses a major challenge for distributed machine learning, particularly under limited communication resources. While split learning (SL) alleviates client computational burden by distributing model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhen Fang , Miao Yang , Zehang Lin , Zheng Lin , Zihan Fang , Zongyuan Zhang , Tianyang Duan , Dong Huang , Shunzhi Zhu

Semantic communications, a promising approach for agent-human and agent-agent interactions, typically operate at a feature level, lacking true semantic understanding. This paper explores understanding-level semantic communications (ULSC),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Shuaishuai Guo , Yanhu Wang , Jia Ye , Anbang Zhang , Kun Xu

In task-oriented semantic communications, the transmitters are designed to deliver task-related semantic information rather than every signal bit to receivers, which alleviates the spectrum pressure by reducing network traffic loads.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Hong Chen , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang