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The evolution toward 6G networks demands a fundamental shift from bit-centric transmission to semantic-aware communication that emphasizes task-relevant information. This work introduces TOAST (Task-Oriented Adaptive Semantic Transmission),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Sheng Yun , Jianhua Pei , Ping Wang

Semantic communications are considered a promising beyond-Shannon/bit paradigm to reduce network traffic and increase reliability, thus making wireless networks more energy efficient, robust, and sustainable. However, the performance is…

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

We present an AI-based framework for semantic transmission of multimedia data over band-limited, time-varying channels. The method targets scenarios where large content is split into multiple packets, with an unknown number potentially…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Nargis Fayaz , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan

This paper investigates the secure resource allocation for a downlink integrated sensing and communication system with multiple legal users and potential eavesdroppers. In the considered model, the base station (BS) simultaneously transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yinchao Yang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Wei Xu , Zhaoyang Zhang

Semantic communication represents a promising technique towards reducing communication costs, especially when dealing with image segmentation, but it still lacks a balance between computational efficiency and bandwidth requirements while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ebrahim Abu-Helalah , Jordi Serra , Jordi Perez-Romero

In network MIMO cellular systems, subsets of base stations (BSs), or remote radio heads, are connected via backhaul links to central units (CUs) that perform joint encoding in the downlink and joint decoding in the uplink. Focusing on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-24 Jinkyu Kang , Osvaldo Simeone , Joonhyuk Kang , Shlomo Shamai

Sensing and communication are fundamental enablers of next-generation networks. While communication technologies have advanced significantly, sensing remains limited to conventional parameter estimation and is far from fully explored.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xiaoqi Zhang , J. Andrew Zhang , Chang Liu , Weijie Yuan , Geoffrey Ye Li , Moeness G. Amin

The traditional communications transmit all the source data represented by bits, regardless of the content of source and the semantic information required by the receiver. However, in some applications, the receiver only needs part of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Recent advances in machine learning, wireless communication, and mobile hardware technologies promisingly enable federated learning (FL) over massive mobile edge devices, which opens new horizons for numerous intelligent mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Liang Li , Dian Shi , Ronghui Hou , Hui Li , Miao Pan , Zhu Han

While existing speech audio codecs designed for compression exploit limited forms of temporal redundancy and allow for multi-scale representations, they tend to represent all features of audio in the same way. In contrast, generative voice…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Ryan Collette , Ross Greenwood , Serena Nicoll

As a paradigm shift towards pervasive intelligence, semantic communication (SemCom) has shown great potentials to improve communication efficiency and provide user-centric services by delivering task-oriented semantic meanings. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Hao Wei , Wen Wang , Wanli Ni , Wenjun Xu , Yongming Huang , Dusit Niyato , Ping Zhang

Satellite communications face severe bottlenecks in supporting high-fidelity synchronized audiovisual services, as conventional schemes struggle with cross-modal coherence under fluctuating channel conditions, limited bandwidth, and long…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Fangyu Liu , Peiwen Jiang , Wenjin Wang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Task-oriented communication is a new paradigm that aims at providing efficient connectivity for accomplishing intelligent tasks rather than the reception of every transmitted bit. In this paper, a deep learning-based task-oriented…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Chuanhong Liu , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Nan Jiang

In this paper, we develop a deep learning based semantic communication system for speech transmission, named DeepSC-ST. We take the speech recognition and speech synthesis as the transmission tasks of the communication system, respectively.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Chengkang Pan , Guangyi Liu , Geoffrey Ye Li

The recent advances of hardware technology have made the intelligent analysis equipped at the front-end with deep learning more prevailing and practical. To better enable the intelligent sensing at the front-end, instead of compressing and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Zhuo Chen , Weisi Lin , Shiqi Wang , Lingyu Duan , Alex C. Kot

This paper introduces a deep learning approach to dynamic spectrum access, leveraging the synergy of multi-modal image and spectrum data for the identification of potential transmitters. We consider an edge device equipped with a camera…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising approach for improving efficient transmission in the next generation of wireless networks. Inspired by the success of semantic communication in different areas, we aim to provide a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Zhenguo Zhang , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Jiming Chen

The concept of semantic communication provides a novel approach for applications in scenarios with limited communication resources. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end (E2E) semantic molecular communication system, aiming to enhance the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Yukun Cheng , Wei Chen , Bo Ai

Deep learning-empowered semantic communication is regarded as a promising candidate for future 6G networks. Although existing semantic communication systems have achieved superior performance compared to traditional methods, the end-to-end…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Peng Yi , Yang Cao , Xin Kang , Ying-Chang Liang