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Semantic communication is a new paradigm that aims at providing more efficient communication for the next-generation wireless network. It focuses on transmitting extracted, meaningful information instead of the raw data. However, deep…
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,…
As one novel approach to realize end-to-end wireless image semantic transmission, deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deep JSCC) method is emerging in both deep learning and communication communities. However, current deep JSCC…
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…
Semantic communication (SemCom) improves transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information. However, transmitting semantic-rich data over insecure channels introduces privacy risks. This paper proposes a novel SemCom…
Discretization of semantic features enables interoperability between semantic and digital communication systems, showing significant potential for practical applications. The fundamental difficulty in digitizing semantic features stems from…
Semantic communications (SCs) aim to transmit only the essential information required to perform given tasks, thereby improving communication efficiency. Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deep JSCC) has emerged as a promising…
Recently, semantic communication has been widely applied in wireless image transmission systems as it can prioritize the preservation of meaningful semantic information in images over the accuracy of transmitted symbols, leading to improved…
Diffusion-based semantic communication methods have shown significant advantages in image transmission by harnessing the generative power of diffusion models. However, they still face challenges, including generation randomness that leads…
Ubiquitous image transmission in emerging applications brings huge overheads to limited wireless resources. Since that text has the characteristic of conveying a large amount of information with very little data, the transmission of the…
Directly sending audio signals from a transmitter to a receiver across a noisy channel may absorb consistent bandwidth and be prone to errors when trying to recover the transmitted bits. On the contrary, the recent semantic communication…
Digital and analog semantic communications (SemCom) face inherent limitations such as data security concerns in analog SemCom, as well as leveling-off and cliff-edge effects in digital SemCom. In order to overcome these challenges, we…
This paper aims to design robust Edge Intelligence using semantic communication for time-critical IoT applications. We systematically analyze the effect of image DCT coefficients on inference accuracy and propose the channel-agnostic…
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…
In this paper, the problem of semantic-based efficient image transmission is studied over the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In the considered model, a vehicle shares massive amount of visual data perceived by its visual sensors to assist…
While semantic communication (SemCom) improves transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information, it also raises critical privacy concerns. Many existing secure SemCom approaches rely on restrictive or impractical…
Harvesting dense pixel-level annotations to train deep neural networks for semantic segmentation is extremely expensive and unwieldy at scale. While learning from synthetic data where labels are readily available sounds promising,…
Shannon's information theory deliberately excludes message semantics. This paper develops a rigorous framework for semantic communication that integrates formal proof systems with Shannon-theoretic tools. We introduce an axiomatic…
End-to-end visual communication systems typically optimize a trade-off between channel bandwidth costs and signal-level distortion metrics. However, under challenging physical conditions, this traditional coding and transmission paradigm…
3D semantic maps have played an increasingly important role in high-precision robot localization and scene understanding. However, real-time construction of semantic maps requires mobile edge devices with extremely high computing power,…