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Task-oriented image semantic communication is a new communication paradigm, which aims to transmit semantics for artificial intelligent (AI) tasks while ignoring the reconstruction quality of the images. However, in some applications, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Fangfang Liu , Wanjie Tong , Yang Yang , Zhengfen Sun , Caili Guo

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have introduced groundbreaking approaches to innovating next-generation semantic communication, which prioritizes conveying the meaning of a message rather than merely transmitting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Achintha Wijesinghe , Weiwei Wang , Suchinthaka Wanninayaka , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Upon the arrival of emerging devices, including Extended Reality (XR) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), the traditional communication framework is approaching Shannon's physical capacity limit and fails to guarantee the massive amount of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Hui Zhou , Yansha Deng , Xiaonan Liu , Nikolaos Pappas , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

Semantic communications seeks to transfer information from a source while conveying a desired meaning to its destination. We model the transmitter-receiver functionalities as an autoencoder followed by a task classifier that evaluates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

As the global demand for data has continued to rise exponentially, some have begun turning to the idea of semantic communication as a means of efficiently meeting this demand. Pushing beyond the boundaries of conventional communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dylan Wheeler , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

Efficient image transmission is essential for seamless communication and collaboration within the visually-driven digital landscape. To achieve low latency and high-quality image reconstruction over a bandwidth-constrained noisy wireless…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Nan Li , Yansha Deng

Wirelessly-connected robotic systems empower robots with real-time intelligence by leveraging remote computing resources for decision-making. However, the data exchange between robots and edge servers often overwhelms communication links,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wenchao Wu , Shutong Chen , Wenjie Liu , Zhibo Pang , Yansha Deng , Robert Schober

Semantic-aware communication is a novel paradigm that draws inspiration from human communication focusing on the delivery of the meaning of messages. It has attracted significant interest recently due to its potential to improve the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yong Xiao , Yiwei Liao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , H. Vincent Poor , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah , Mehdi Bennis

With the development of computer vision, 3D object detection has become increasingly important in many real-world applications. Limited by the computing power of sensor-side hardware, the detection task is sometimes deployed on remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-19 Zijian Cao , Hua Zhang , Le Liang , Haotian Wang , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Task-oriented semantic communication is an emerging technology that transmits only the relevant semantics of a message instead of the whole message to achieve a specific task. It reduces latency, compresses the data, and is more robust in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Eslam Eldeeb , Mohammad Shehab , Hirley Alves

This work presents a novel semantic transmission framework in wireless networks, leveraging the joint processing technique. Our framework enables multiple cooperating base stations to efficiently transmit semantic information to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Xumin Pu , Tiantian Lei , Wanli Wen , Qianbin Chen

Semantic communication marks a new paradigm shift from bit-wise data transmission to semantic information delivery for the purpose of bandwidth reduction. To more effectively carry out specialized downstream tasks at the receiver end, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yu-Chieh Chao , Yubei Chen , Weiwei Wang , Achintha Wijesinghe , Suchinthaka Wanninayaka , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

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

The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has introduced significant opportunities for enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of image transmission within semantic communication systems. Despite these advancements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qiyu Ma , Wanli Ni , Zhijin Qin

Today, wireless networks are becoming responsible for serving intelligent applications, such as extended reality and metaverse, holographic telepresence, autonomous transportation, and collaborative robots. Although current fifth-generation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Hassan Saadat , Abdullatif Albaseer , Mohamed Abdallah , Amr Mohamed , Aiman Erbad

Goal-oriented semantic communication (SC) aims to revolutionize communication systems by transmitting only task-essential information. However, current approaches face challenges such as joint training at transceivers, leading to redundant…

Semantic communication focuses on transmitting task-relevant semantic information, aiming for intent-oriented communication. While existing systems improve efficiency by extracting key semantics, they still fail to deeply understand and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Peigen Ye , Jingpu Duan , Hongyang Du , Yulan Guo

Empowered by deep learning, semantic communication marks a paradigm shift from transmitting raw data to conveying task-relevant meaning, enabling more efficient and intelligent wireless systems. In this study, we explore a deep…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Chenyang Wang , Roger Olsson , Stefan Forsström , Qing He

Semantic communications offer promising prospects for enhancing data transmission efficiency. However, existing schemes have predominantly concentrated on point-to-point transmissions. In this paper, we aim to investigate the validity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Yanhu Wang , Shuaishuai Guo , Anming Dong , Hui Zhao