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Discretization of semantic features enables interoperability between semantic and digital communication systems, showing significant potential for practical applications. The fundamental difficulty in digitizing semantic features stems from…

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Recently, learning-based semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising approach in the upcoming 6G network and researchers have made remarkable efforts in this field. However, existing works have yet to fully explore the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gündüz , Zhaoyang Zhang

Deep learning driven joint source-channel coding (JSCC) for wireless image or video transmission, also called DeepJSCC, has been a topic of interest recently with very promising results. The idea is to map similar source samples to nearby…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Tze-Yang Tung , Deniz Gunduz

While Separate Source-Channel Coding (SSCC) retains the practical benefits of modular system design, its effectiveness in noisy text transmission is fundamentally constrained by the fragility of autoregressive source decoding. In low-SNR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ziqiong Wang , Rongpeng Li

From the perspective of joint source-channel coding (JSCC), there has been significant research on utilizing semantic communication, which inherently possesses analog characteristics, within digital device environments. However, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Yoon Huh , Hyowoon Seo , Wan Choi

The goal of semantic communication is to surpass optimal Shannon's criterion regarding a notable problem for future communication which lies in the integration of collaborative efforts between the intelligence of the transmission source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Xinchao Zhong , Sean Longyu Ma , Hong-fu Chou , Arsham Mostaani , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas

Although analog semantic communication systems have received considerable attention in the literature, there is less work on digital semantic communication systems. In this paper, we develop a deep learning (DL)-enabled vector quantized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Qifan Fu , Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Gregory Slabaugh , Xiaoming Tao

Ultra-high-resolution streaming and emerging immersive services are driving rapidly increasing wireless video traffic. However, perceptually pleasing video transmission over bandwidth-limited and latency-constrained wireless links remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Yinhuan Huang , Zhijin Qin

Image transmission for vehicle-to-vehicle collaborative perception in autonomous driving faces challenges including limited on-board terminal resources, time-varying wireless channel fading, and poor robustness under low signal-to-noise…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Ruixing Ren , Minjie Wei , Junhui Zhao

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

Accurate and timely image transmission is critical for emerging time-sensitive applications such as remote sensing in satellite-assisted Internet of Things. However, the bandwidth limitation poses a significant challenge in existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Xiaolei Yang , Zijing Wang , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao

The rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision (CV) has facilitated the development of computation-intensive applications like Visual Question Answering (VQA), which integrates visual perception and natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Sige Liu , Nan Li , Yansha Deng , Tony Q. S. Quek

As a new communication paradigm, semantic communication has received widespread attention in communication fields. However, since the decoding of semantic signals relies on contextual knowledge, misalignment between the starting position of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Xiaoyi Liu , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu

This paper presents an adaptive framework for edge inference based on a dynamically configurable transformer-powered deep joint source channel coding (DJSCC) architecture. Motivated by a practical scenario where a resource constrained edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Alessio Devoto , Jary Pomponi , Mattia Merluzzi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Simone Scardapane

We propose a joint source and channel coding (JSCC) technique for wireless image transmission that does not rely on explicit codes for either compression or error correction; instead, it directly maps the image pixel values to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , David Burth Kurka , Deniz Gunduz

Semantic communication (SemCom) demonstrates strong superiority over conventional bit-level accurate transmission, by only attempting to recover the essential semantic information of data. In this paper, in order to tackle the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Siyu Tong , Xiaoxue Yu , Rongpeng Li , Kun Lu , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang 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

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

In this paper, we propose a high-efficiency deep joint source-channel coding (JSCC) method for video transmission based on conditional coding with asymmetric context. The conditional coding-based neural video compression requires to predict…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Xuechen Chen , Junting Li , Chuang Chen , Hairong Lin , Yishen Li

Diffusion models have been extensively utilized in AI-generated content (AIGC) in recent years, thanks to the superior generation capabilities. Combining with semantic communications, diffusion models are used for tasks such as denoising,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Lei Guo , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Bo Ai , Nikolaos Pappas , Tony Q. S. Quek