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Motivated by surveillance applications with wireless cameras or drones, we consider the problem of image retrieval over a wireless channel. Conventional systems apply lossy compression on query images to reduce the data that must be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

In recent developments, deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) for wireless image transmission has made significant strides in performance enhancement. Nonetheless, the majority of existing DL-based JSCC methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Junyu Pan , Hanlei Li , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

Nowadays, the demand for image transmission over wireless networks has surged significantly. To meet the need for swift delivery of high-quality images through time-varying channels with limited bandwidth, the development of efficient…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mohammad Amin Jarrahi , Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Vahid Abolghasemi

We propose joint transmission-recognition schemes for efficient inference at the wireless edge. Motivated by the surveillance applications with wireless cameras, we consider the person classification task over a wireless channel carried out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Ezgi Ozyilkan , Mikolaj Jankowski

In this paper, we introduce an innovative hierarchical joint source-channel coding (HJSCC) framework for image transmission, utilizing a hierarchical variational autoencoder (VAE). Our approach leverages a combination of bottom-up and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-18 Guangyi Zhang , Hanlei Li , Yunlong Cai , Qiyu Hu , Guanding Yu , Runmin Zhang

Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is emerging as a promising technology for effective image transmission. However, most existing approaches focus on transmitting clear images, overlooking real-world challenges such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Pujing Yang , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai , Lei Yu , Guanding Yu

We propose deep learning based communication methods for adaptive-bandwidth transmission of images over wireless channels. We consider the scenario in which images are transmitted progressively in layers over time or frequency, and such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 David Burth Kurka , Deniz Gündüz

Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is a promising paradigm for next-generation communication systems, particularly in challenging transmission environments. In this paper, we propose a novel standard-compatible JSCC framework for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xue Han , Yongpeng Wu , Zhen Gao , Biqian Feng , Yuxuan Shi , Deniz Gündüz , Wenjun Zhang

Conventional communication systems, including both separation-based coding and AI-driven joint source-channel coding (JSCC), are largely guided by Shannon's rate-distortion theory. However, relying on generic distortion metrics fails to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Guo Lu , Li Song , Feng Yang , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

We propose a novel hybrid joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme for robust image transmission over multi-hop networks. In the considered scenario, a mobile user wants to deliver an image to its destination over a mobile cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Chenghong Bian , Yulin Shao , Deniz Gunduz

The secrecy performance of a source-channel model is studied in the context of lossy source compression over a noisy broadcast channel. The source is causally revealed to the eavesdropper during decoding. The fidelity of the transmission to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Eva C. Song , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor

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

Joint source-channel coding (JSCC) offers a promising avenue for enhancing transmission efficiency by jointly incorporating source and channel statistics into the system design. A key advancement in this area is the deep joint source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Maojun Zhang , Haotian Wu , Guangxu Zhu , Richeng Jin , Xiaoming Chen , Deniz Gündüz

Semantic communications is considered as a promising technology to increase the efficiency of next-generation communication systems, particularly targeting human-machine and machine-type communications. In contrast to the source-agnostic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jialong Xu , Tze-Yang Tung , Bo Ai , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Deniz Gunduz

We consider wireless transmission of images in the presence of channel output feedback. From a Shannon theoretic perspective feedback does not improve the asymptotic end-to-end performance, and separate source coding followed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-13 David Burth Kurka , Deniz Gündüz

In this paper, we propose a high-efficiency deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) method for video transmission based on conditional coding with asymmetric context. The conditional coding-based neural video compression requires to predict…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Xuechen Chen , Junting Li , Chuang Chen , Hairong Lin , Yishen Li

Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) has emerged as a promising technique in 6G for enhancing the efficiency and reliability of data transmission across diverse modalities, particularly in low signal-to-noise ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Kaiyi Chi , Yinghui He , Qianqian Yang , Zhiping Jiang , Yuanchao Shu , Zhiqin Wang , Jun Luo , Jiming Chen

We consider distributed image transmission over a noisy multiple access channel (MAC) using deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC). It is known that Shannon's separation theorem holds when transmitting independent sources over a MAC in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Selim F. Yilmaz , Can Karamanli , Deniz Gunduz

The advent of 6G networks demands unprecedented levels of intelligence, adaptability, and efficiency to address challenges such as ultra-high-speed data transmission, ultra-low latency, and massive connectivity in dynamic environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chen Zhu , Kang Liang , Jianrong Bao , Zhouxiang Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

In this paper, we investigate a joint source-channel encoding (JSCE) scheme in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user semantic communication system. Semantic encoding not only compresses redundant information, but also…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Haidong Wang , Songhan Zhao , Lanhua Li , Bo Gu , Jing Xu , Shimin Gong , Jiawen Kang