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The emerging field semantic communication is driving the research of end-to-end data transmission. By utilizing the powerful representation ability of deep learning models, learned data transmission schemes have exhibited superior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jincheng Dai , Sixian Wang , Ke Yang , Kailin Tan , Xiaoqi Qin , Zhongwei Si , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

In light of the diminishing returns of traditional methods for enhancing transmission rates, the domain of semantic communication presents promising new frontiers. Focusing on image transmission, this paper explores the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shehbaz Tariq , Brian Estadimas Arfeto , Chaoning Zhang , Hyundong Shin

Semantic communication has emerged as the breakthrough beyond the Shannon theorem by transmitting and receiving semantic information instead of data bits or symbols regardless of its content. This paper proposes a two-stage reconstruction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Trinh Van Chien , Le Hong Phong , Dao Xuan Phuc , Nguyen Tien Hoa

Semantic communication has emerged as new paradigm shifts in 6G from the conventional syntax-oriented communications. Recently, the wireless broadcast technology has been introduced to support semantic communication system toward higher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Mingze Gong , Shuoyao Wang , Fangwei Ye , Suzhi Bi

The recent emergence of 6G raises the challenge of increasing the transmission data rate even further in order to break the barrier set by the Shannon limit. Traditional communication methods fall short of the 6G goals, paving the way for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Sachin Kadam , Dong In Kim

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for 6G wireless systems by transmitting task-relevant information rather than raw bits, yet existing approaches remain vulnerable to dual sources of uncertainty: semantic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Long Tan Le , Senura Hansaja Wanasekara , Zerun Niu , Nguyen H. Tran , Phuong Vo , Walid Saad , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong , H. Vincent Poor

Recently, significant progress has been made in masked image modeling to catch up to masked language modeling. However, unlike words in NLP, the lack of semantic decomposition of images still makes masked autoencoding (MAE) different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gang Li , Heliang Zheng , Daqing Liu , Chaoyue Wang , Bing Su , Changwen Zheng

Semantic communications (SCs) aim to transmit only the essential information required to perform given tasks, thereby improving communication efficiency. Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deep JSCC) has emerged as a promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Eunhye Hong , Taewoo Park , Yongjune Kim

The emergence of the semantic-aware paradigm presents opportunities for innovative services, especially in the context of 6G-based applications. Although significant progress has been made in semantic extraction techniques, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Hamidreza Mazandarani , Masoud Shokrnezhad , Tarik Taleb

Learning segmentation from synthetic data and adapting to real data can significantly relieve human efforts in labelling pixel-level masks. A key challenge of this task is how to alleviate the data distribution discrepancy between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Zhonghao Wang , Yunchao Wei , Rogerior Feris , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-Mei Hwu , Thomas S. Huang , Humphrey Shi

We introduce a new semantic communication mechanism - SemanticRL, whose key idea is to preserve the semantic information instead of strictly securing the bit-level precision. Unlike previous methods that mainly concentrate on the network or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Kun Lu , Rongpeng Li , Xianfu Chen , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Due to the challenges of satisfying the demands for communication efficiency and intelligent connectivity, sixth-generation (6G) wireless network requires new communication frameworks to enable effective information exchange and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Yuzhou Fu , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Jingqing Wang

Semantic communications have gained significant attention as a promising approach to address the transmission bottleneck, especially with the continuous development of 6G techniques. Distinct from the well investigated physical channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-15 Xiang Peng , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Jianhua Lu , Khaled B. Letaief

Semantic communications have shown great potential to boost the end-to-end transmission performance. To further improve the system efficiency, in this paper, we propose a class of novel semantic coded transmission (SCT) schemes over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shengshi Yao , Sixian Wang , Jincheng Dai , Kai Niu , Ping Zhang

Satellite communications can provide massive connections and seamless coverage, but they also face several challenges, such as rain attenuation, long propagation delays, and co-channel interference. To improve transmission efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-27 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Recently, semantic communication has been investigated to boost the performance of end-to-end image transmission systems. However, existing semantic approaches are generally based on deep learning and belong to lossy transmission.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-23 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

Semantic communication (SemCom) significantly reduces redundant data and improves transmission efficiency by extracting the latent features of information. However, most of the conventional deep learning-based SemCom systems focus on analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Ming Lyu , Hao Chen , Dan Wang , Chen Qiu , Guangyin Feng , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu

The task-oriented semantic communication systems have achieved significant performance gain, however, the paradigm that employs a model for a specific task might be limited, since the system has to be updated once the task is changed or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

Increasing demands for massive data transmission pose significant challenges to communication systems. Compared with traditional communication systems that focus on the accurate reconstruction of bit sequences, SemComs, which aim to deliver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Fengyu Wang , Yuan Zheng , Wenjun Xu , Junxiao Liang , Ping Zhang , Zhu Han

Semantic Communication (SemCom) systems, empowered by deep learning (DL), represent a paradigm shift in data transmission. These systems prioritize the significance of content over sheer data volume. However, existing SemCom designs face…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Abdullatif Albaseer , Mohamed Abdallah