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Recent works have shown that modern machine learning techniques can provide an alternative approach to the long-standing joint source-channel coding (JSCC) problem. Very promising initial results, superior to popular digital schemes that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-17 Tze-Yang Tung , David Burth Kurka , Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz

Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) is emerging as a potential technology to meet the demand for effective data transmission, particularly for image transmission. Nevertheless, most existing advancements only consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Pujing Yang , Guangyi Zhang , Yunlong Cai

We propose a novel hybrid joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme for robust image transmission over multi-hop networks. In the considered scenario, a mobile user wants to deliver an image to its destination over a mobile cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Chenghong Bian , Yulin Shao , Deniz Gunduz

Recent advances in deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (deepJSCC) have substantially improved communication performance, but their high computational cost hinders practical deployment. Moreover, certain applications require the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hansung Choi , Daewon Seo

We propose an adaptive lossy joint source-channel coding (JSCC) scheme for sending correlated sources over two-terminal discrete-memoryless two-way channels (DM-TWCs). The main idea is to couple the independent operations of the terminals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Jian-Jia Weng , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

The recently developed variational autoencoders (VAEs) have proved to be an effective confluence of the rich representational power of neural networks with Bayesian methods. However, most work on VAEs use a rather simple prior over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Prasoon Goyal , Zhiting Hu , Xiaodan Liang , Chenyu Wang , Eric Xing

We present a learning-based channel-adaptive joint source and channel coding (CA-JSCC) scheme for wireless image transmission over multipath fading channels. The proposed method is an end-to-end autoencoder architecture with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Haotian Wu , Yulin Shao , Krystian Mikolajczyk , Deniz Gündüz

We introduce deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) schemes for image transmission over cooperative relay channels. The relay either amplifies-and-forwards its received signal, called DeepJSCC-AF, or leverages neural networks to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Chenghong Bian , Yulin Shao , Haotian Wu , Emre Ozfatura , Deniz Gunduz

Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding (Deep-JSCC) has emerged as a promising semantic communication approach for wireless image transmission by jointly optimizing source and channel coding using deep learning techniques. However, traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Avi Deb Raha , Apurba Adhikary , Mrityunjoy Gain , Yumin Park , Walid Saad , Choong Seon Hong

We study privacy-aware communication over a wiretap channel using end-to-end learning. Alice wants to transmit a source signal to Bob over a binary symmetric channel, while passive eavesdropper Eve tries to infer some sensitive attribute of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ecenaz Erdemir , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gunduz

In recent years, numerous data-intensive broadcasting applications have emerged at the wireless edge, calling for a flexible tradeoff between distortion, transmission rate, and processing complexity. While deep learning-based joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zijun Qin , Jingxuan Huang , Zesong Fei , Haichuan Ding , Yulin Shao , Xianhao Chen

Recent works have shown that joint source-channel coding (JSCC) schemes using deep neural networks (DNNs), called DeepJSCC, provide promising results in wireless image transmission. However, these methods mostly focus on the distortion of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Ecenaz Erdemir , Tze-Yang Tung , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gunduz

This work is concerned with robust distributed multi-view image transmission over a severe fading channel with imperfect channel state information (CSI), wherein the sources are slightly correlated. Since the signals are further distorted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Biao Dong , Bin Cao , Guan Gui , Qinyu Zhang

The advent of 6G networks demands unprecedented levels of intelligence, adaptability, and efficiency to address challenges such as ultra-high-speed data transmission, ultra-low latency, and massive connectivity in dynamic environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chen Zhu , Kang Liang , Jianrong Bao , Zhouxiang Zhao , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

We investigate the problem of producing diverse solutions to an image super-resolution problem. From a probabilistic perspective, this can be done by sampling from the posterior distribution of an inverse problem, which requires the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jean Prost , Antoine Houdard , Andrés Almansa , Nicolas Papadakis

Conventional communication systems, including both separation-based coding and AI-driven joint source-channel coding (JSCC), are largely guided by Shannon's rate-distortion theory. However, relying on generic distortion metrics fails to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Guo Lu , Li Song , Feng Yang , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

Recent advancements in information technology and the widespread use of the Internet have led to easier access to data worldwide. As a result, transmitting data through noisy channels is inevitable. Reducing the size of data and protecting…

Current privacy-aware joint source-channel coding (JSCC) works aim at avoiding private information transmission by adversarially training the JSCC encoder and decoder under specific signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of eavesdroppers. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Lunan Sun , Caili Guo , Mingzhe Chen , Yang Yang

Recent advances in deep learning (DL)-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) have enabled efficient semantic communication in dynamic wireless environments. Among these approaches, vector quantization (VQ)-based JSCC effectively maps…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Eunsoo Kim , Yoon Huh , Wan Choi

We propose a multi-resolution convolutional autoencoder (MrCAE) architecture that integrates and leverages three highly successful mathematical architectures: (i) multigrid methods, (ii) convolutional autoencoders and (iii) transfer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Yuying Liu , Colin Ponce , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz