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Wireless goal-oriented semantic communication (GSC) has emerged as a promising paradigm by directly optimizing task performance. However, existing GSC frameworks typically operate on entire images and rely on labeled data for classification…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Zhitong Ni , Yansha Deng , Jinhong Yuan

Wireless communication has achieved great success in the past several decades. The challenge is of improving bandwidth with limited spectrum and power consumption, which however has gradually become a bottleneck with evolution going on. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Guangming Shi , Dahua Gao , Xiaodan Song , Jingxuan Chai , Minxi Yang , Xuemei Xie , Leida Li , Xuyang Li

This paper proposes new framework of communication system leveraging promising generation capabilities of multi-modal generative models. Regarding nowadays smart applications, successful communication can be made by conveying the perceptual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim

The development of the new generation of wireless technologies (6G) has led to an increased interest in semantic communication. Thanks also to recent developments in artificial intelligence and communication technologies, researchers in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Federico Francesco Luigi Mariani , Michele Zhu , Maurizio Magarini

Foundation model-based semantic transmission has recently shown great potential in wireless image communication. However, existing methods exhibit two major limitations: (i) they overlook the varying importance of semantic components for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Fangyu Liu , Peiwen Jiang , Wenjin Wang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication systems require large antenna arrays and use narrow directive beams to ensure sufficient receive signal power. However, selecting the optimal beams for these large antenna arrays…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Shoaib Imran , Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Most of current semantic communication (SemCom) frameworks focus on the image transmission, which, however, do not address the problem on how to deliver digital signals without any semantic features. This paper proposes a novel SemCom…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Zhigang Yan , Dong Li

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

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Qiang Pan , Haonan Tong , Jie Lv , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Changchuan Yin , Jianfeng Li

We present our vision for a departure from the established way of architecting and assessing communication networks, by incorporating the semantics of information for communications and control in networked systems. We define semantics of…

Wireless connectivity has traditionally been regarded as an opaque data pipe carrying messages, whose context-dependent meaning and effectiveness have been ignored. Nevertheless, in emerging cyber-physical and autonomous networked systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Marios Kountouris , Nikolaos Pappas

When artificial agents are jointly trained to perform collaborative tasks using a communication channel, they develop opaque goal-oriented communication protocols. Good task performance is often considered sufficient evidence that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Rotem Ben Zion , Boaz Carmeli , Orr Paradise , Yonatan Belinkov

In forthcoming AI-assisted 6G networks, integrating semantic, pragmatic, and goal-oriented communication strategies becomes imperative. This integration will enable sensing, transmission, and processing of exclusively pertinent task data,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tomás Hüttebräucker , Mohamed Sana , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Deep learning (DL) based semantic communication methods have been explored for the efficient transmission of images, text, and speech in recent years. In contrast to traditional wireless communication methods that focus on the transmission…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Tianxiao Han , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Shibo He , Zhaoyang Zhang

Semantic communication is a promising technique for emerging wireless applications, which reduces transmission overhead by transmitting only task-relevant features instead of raw data. However, existing methods struggle under extremely low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Peiwen Jiang , Jiajia Guo , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Semantic communication (SemCom) emerges as a transformative paradigm for traffic-intensive visual data transmission, shifting focus from raw data to meaningful content transmission and relieving the increasing pressure on communication…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Runze Cheng , Yao Sun , Ahmad Taha , Xuesong Liu , David Flynn , Muhammad Ali Imran

Semantic communication, as a promising technology, has emerged to break through the Shannon limit, which is envisioned as the key enabler and fundamental paradigm for future 6G networks and applications, e.g., smart healthcare. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jiawen Kang , Hongyang Du , Zonghang Li , Zehui Xiong , Shiyao Ma , Dusit Niyato , Yuan Li

Semantic communication, leveraging advanced deep learning techniques, emerges as a new paradigm that meets the requirements of next-generation wireless networks. However, current semantic communication systems, which employ neural coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Hai-Long Qin , Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Xiaoqi Qin , Shuo Shao , Kai Niu , Wenjun Xu , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication aims to convey meaning rather than bit-perfect reproduction, representing a paradigm shift from traditional communication. This paper investigates distribution learning in semantic communication where receivers must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Samer Lahoud , Kinda Khawam

In this paper, a semantic communication framework for image transmission is developed. In the investigated framework, a set of servers cooperatively transmit images to a set of users utilizing semantic communication techniques. To evaluate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Wenjing Zhang , Yining Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Tao Luo , Dusit Niyato