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We present Generative Semantic Segmentation (GSS), a generative learning approach for semantic segmentation. Uniquely, we cast semantic segmentation as an image-conditioned mask generation problem. This is achieved by replacing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiaqi Chen , Jiachen Lu , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Learning-based semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for improving the transmission efficiency of wireless networks. However, existing methods typically rely on extensive end-to-end training, which is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Jihong Park , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kaibin Huang , Deniz Gunduz

Deep learning based semantic communication has achieved significant progress in wireless image transmission, but most existing schemes rely on fixed models and thus lack robustness to diverse image contents and dynamic channel conditions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haowen Wan , Qianqian Yang

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

This paper investigates semantic communications between a transmitter and a receiver, where original data, such as videos of interest to the receiver, is stored at the transmitter. Although significant process has been made in semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Xunze Liu , Yifei Sun , Zhaorui Wang , Lizhao You , Haoyuan Pan , Fangxin Wang , Shuguang Cui

Semantic communications have shown its great potential to improve the transmission reliability, especially in the low signal-to-noise regime. However, resource allocation for semantic communications still remains unexplored, which is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Lei Yan , Zhijin Qin , Rui Zhang , Yongzhao Li , Geoffrey Ye Li

With the evolution of 6G, semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm by prioritizing the delivery of task-relevant meaning over strict bit-level correctness. However, existing transport mechanisms still rely on explicit port…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Yunhao Wang , Shuai Ma , Bin Shen , Shouhan Shi , Youlong Wu , Guangming Shi , Xiang Cheng

Semantic-oriented communication has been considered as a promising to boost the bandwidth efficiency by only transmitting the semantics of the data. In this paper, we propose a multi-level semantic aware communication system for wireless…

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

Different from data-oriented communication systems that primarily focus on how to accurately transmit every bit of data, task-oriented semantic communication systems only transmit the specific semantic information required by downstream…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenbo Yu , Bin Chen , Qinshan Zhang , Shu-Tao Xia

In this paper, we investigate a generative artificial intelligence (GAI)-assisted semantic communication framework for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based image transmissions. Semantic users (SUs) extract cross-modal semantic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Songhan Zhao , Shimin Gong , Bo Gu , Hongyang Du , Xidong Mu , Zehui Xiong , Yuming Fang

Semantic communications, aiming at ensuring the successful delivery of the meaning of information, are expected to be one of the potential techniques for the next generation communications. However, the knowledge forming and synchronizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuan Zheng , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Miao Pan , Ping Zhang

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

Semantic communication has gained significant attention from researchers as a promising technique to replace conventional communication in the next generation of communication systems, primarily due to its ability to reduce communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Loc X. Nguyen , Ye Lin Tun , Yan Kyaw Tun , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Chaoning Zhang , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Reliable image transmission over wireless channels is particularly challenging at extremely low transmission rates, where conventional compression and channel coding schemes fail to preserve adequate visual quality. To address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shengkang Chen , Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Feng Yang , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

Semantic communication (SC) is emerging as a pivotal innovation within the 6G framework, aimed at enabling more intelligent transmission. This development has led to numerous studies focused on designing advanced systems through powerful…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Guangyi Zhang , Kequan Zhou , Yunlong Cai , Qiyu Hu , Guanding Yu

Differing from the conventional communication system paradigm that models information source as a sequence of (i.i.d. or stationary) random variables, the semantic approach aims at extracting and sending the high-level features of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mingxiao Li , Kaiming Shen , Shuguang Cui

With the rapid development of autonomous driving and extended reality, efficient transmission of point clouds (PCs) has become increasingly important. In this context, we propose a novel channel-adaptive cross-modal generative semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Qianqian Yang , Ping Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Rahim Tafazolli

The integration of sensing and communication (ISAC) is a key enabler for next-generation technologies. With high-frequency bands and large-scale antenna arrays, the Rayleigh distance extends, necessitating near-field (NF) models where waves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Yinchao Yang , Jingxuan Zhou , Zhaohui Yang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

In this paper, a semantic communication framework is proposed for textual data transmission. In the studied model, a base station (BS) extracts the semantic information from textual data, and transmits it to each user. The semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Yining Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Tao Luo , Walid Saad , Dusit Niyato , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

Recently proliferated deep learning-based semantic communications (DLSC) focus on how transmitted symbols efficiently convey a desired meaning to the destination. However, the sensitivity of neural models and the openness of wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yankai Rong , Guoshun Nan , Minwei Zhang , Sihan Chen , Songtao Wang , Xuefei Zhang , Nan Ma , Shixun Gong , Zhaohui Yang , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao , Tony Q. S. Quek