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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…

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Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless systems, improving the communication efficiency by transmitting high-level semantic features. However, reliance on unimodal representations can degrade…

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Semantic communication is a promising technology to improve communication efficiency by transmitting only the semantic information of the source data. However, traditional semantic communication methods primarily focus on data…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jiahao Zheng , Jinke Ren , Peng Xu , Zhihao Yuan , Jie Xu , Fangxin Wang , Gui Gui , Shuguang Cui

Existing communication systems are mainly built based on Shannon's information theory which deliberately ignores the semantic aspects of communication. The recent iteration of wireless technology, the so-called 5G and beyond, promises to…

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As digital technologies advance, communication networks face challenges in handling the vast data generated by intelligent devices. Autonomous vehicles, smart sensors, and IoT systems necessitate new paradigms. This thesis addresses these…

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In the evolving landscape of wireless communications, semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a 6G enabler that prioritizes the transmission of meaning and contextual relevance over conventional bit-centric metrics. However,…

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The development of the new generation of wireless technologies (6G) has led to an increased interest in semantic communication. Thanks also to recent developments in artificial intelligence and communication technologies, researchers in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Federico Francesco Luigi Mariani , Michele Zhu , Maurizio Magarini

Generative semantic communication (Gen-SemCom) with large artificial intelligence (AI) model promises a transformative paradigm for 6G networks, which reduces communication costs by transmitting low-dimensional prompts rather than raw data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Jianhao Huang , Qunsong Zeng , Kaibin Huang

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has emerged as a rapidly burgeoning field demonstrating significant potential in creating diverse contents intelligently and automatically. To support such artificial intelligence-generated content…

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

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Sachin Kadam , Dong In Kim

Semantic communication has drawn substantial attention as a promising paradigm to achieve effective and intelligent communications. However, efficient image semantic communication encounters challenges with a lower testing compression ratio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Shuling Li , Yaping Sun , Jinbei Zhang , Kechao Cai , Shuguang Cui , Xiaodong Xu

To reduce network traffic and support environments with limited resources, a method for transmitting images with minimal transmission data is required. Several machine learning-based image compression methods, which compress the data size…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Eri Hosonuma , Taku Yamazaki , Takumi Miyoshi , Akihito Taya , Yuuki Nishiyama , Kaoru Sezaki

Semantic communication is focused on optimizing the exchange of information by transmitting only the most relevant data required to convey the intended message to the receiver and achieve the desired communication goal. For example, if we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Fatemeh Zahra Safaeipour , Morteza Hashemi

In the swiftly advancing realm of communication technologies, Semantic Communication (SemCom), which emphasizes knowledge understanding and processing, has emerged as a hot topic. By integrating artificial intelligence technologies, SemCom…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Fei Ni , Bingyan Wang , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Semantic communication (SemCom) presents a transformative paradigm for alleviating bandwidth limitations in mobile networks by transmitting task-relevant semantic features instead of raw data bits. While SemCom systems utilizing diffusion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chengyang Liang , Dong Li

Semantic communication (SemCom) systems aim to learn the mapping from low-dimensional semantics to high-dimensional ground-truth. While this is more akin to a "domain translation" problem, existing frameworks typically emphasize on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

Generative semantic communication (SemCom) harnesses pretrained generative priors to improve the perceptual quality of wireless image transmission. Existing generative SemCom receivers, however, rely on maximum a posteriori (MAP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang

A latent denoising semantic communication (SemCom) framework is proposed for robust image transmission over noisy channels. By incorporating a learnable latent denoiser into the receiver, the received signals are preprocessed to effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mingkai Xu , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Xiang-Gen Xia , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

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 viewed as a revolutionary paradigm that can potentially transform how we design and operate wireless communication systems. However, despite a recent surge of research activities in this area, the research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Christina Chaccour , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor