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Semantic communication has emerged as a new paradigm to facilitate the performance of integrated sensing and communication systems in 6G. However, most of the existing works mainly focus on sensing data compression to reduce the subsequent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Haotian Wang , Dan Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Chuan Huang , Hao Chen , Nan Ma

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 is an increasingly popular framework for wireless image transmission due to its high communication efficiency. With the aid of the joint-source-and-channel (JSC) encoder implemented by neural network, semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Maojun Zhang , Yang Li , Zezhong Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Caijun Zhong

Semantic communication shifts the focus from bit-level accuracy to task-relevant semantic delivery, enabling efficient and intelligent communication for next-generation networks. However, existing multi-modal solutions often process all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yujie Zhou , Cheng Peng , Rulong Wang , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , Ping Zhang

Semantic communications conveys task-relevant meaning rather than focusing solely on message reconstruction, improving bandwidth efficiency and robustness for next-generation wireless systems. However, learned semantic representations can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Aylin Yener , Sennur Ulukus

Semantic communications are expected to become the core new paradigms of the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. Most existing works implicitly utilize channel information for codecs training, which leads to poor communications when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Lan Lin , Wenjun Xu , Fengyu Wang , Yimeng Zhang , Wei Zhang , Ping Zhang

In this paper, we propose a novel semantic-aided image communication framework for supporting the compatibility with practical separation-based coding architectures. Particularly, the deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Mingkai Xu , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Xiang-Gen Xia , Merouane Debbah , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

Modern communications are usually designed to pursue a higher bit-level precision and fewer bits while transmitting a message. This article rethinks these two major features and introduces the concept and advantage of semantics that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Kun Lu , Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Jianjun Wu , Honggang Zhang

With the rapid advancement and deployment of intelligent agents and artificial general intelligence (AGI), a fundamental challenge for future networks is enabling efficient communications among agents. Unlike traditional human-centric,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Shaolong Guo , Yuntao Wang , Ning Zhang , Zhou Su , Tom H. Luan , Zhiyi Tian , Xuemin , Shen

Despite progress in semantic communication (SemCom), research on SemCom security is still in its infancy. To bridge this gap, we propose a general covert SemCom framework for wireless networks, reducing eavesdropping risk. Our approach…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yansheng Liu , Jinbo Wen , Zongyao Zhang , Kun Zhu , Yang Zhang , Jiangtian Nie , Jiawen Kang

In high-mobility scenarios with time-frequency doubly-selective channels, existing semantic communication systems suffer significant performance degradation. To address this issue, we propose a semantic communication framework that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Yu Zhang , Jiarui Yan , Yue Liu , Tenglun Ke , Yimeng Wang , Zhijin Qin

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…

Semantic communication is proposed and expected to improve the efficiency of massive data transmission over sixth generation (6G) networks. However, existing image semantic communication schemes are primarily focused on optimizing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Zehao Chen , Xinfeng Wei , Haonan Tong , Zhaohui Yang , Changchuan Yin

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,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jiaxing Zhang , Luosong Guo , Kun Zhu , Houming Qiu

Most existing semantic communication (SemCom) systems use deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) to encode task-specific semantics in a goal-oriented manner. However, their reliance on predefined tasks and datasets significantly limits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Jiangjing Hu , Haotian Wu , Wenjing Zhang , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Hui Gao , Deniz Gündüz

Metaverse over wireless networks is an emerging use case of the sixth generation (6G) wireless systems, posing unprecedented challenges in terms of its multi-modal data transmissions with stringent latency and reliability requirements.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim , Mehdi Bennis

Semantic communications represent a new paradigm of next-generation networking that shifts bit-wise data delivery to conveying the semantic meanings for bandwidth efficiency. To effectively accommodate various potential downstream tasks at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Fupei Guo , Achintha Wijesinghe , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

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

Intelligent voice assistants, such as Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa, are widely used nowadays. These task-oriented dialogue systems require a semantic parsing module in order to process user utterances and understand the action to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Daniel Fernández-González

The end-to-end image communication system has been widely studied in the academic community. The escalating demands on image communication systems in terms of data volume, environmental complexity, and task precision require enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Senran Fan , Zhicheng Bao , Chen Dong , Haotai Liang , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang