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Semantic Communication (SC) is an emerging technology that has attracted much attention in the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication systems. However, few literature has fully considered the perceptual quality of the reconstructed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Kexin Zhang , Lixin Li , Wensheng Lin , Yuna Yan , Wenchi Cheng , Zhu Han

Semantic- and task-oriented communication has emerged as a promising approach to reducing the latency and bandwidth requirements of next-generation mobile networks by transmitting only the most relevant information needed to complete a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Deniz Gündüz , Michèle A. Wigger , Tze-Yang Tung , Ping Zhang , Yong Xiao

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

Semantic communications represent a new paradigm of next-generation networking that shifts bit-wise data delivery to conveying the semantic meanings for bandwidth efficiency. To effectively accommodate various potential downstream tasks at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Fupei Guo , Achintha Wijesinghe , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Task-Oriented Semantic Communication (TOSC) has been regarded as a promising communication framework, serving for various Artificial Intelligence (AI) task driven applications. The existing TOSC frameworks focus on extracting the full…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Yuzhou Fu , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Liuguo Yin , Wei Zhang

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have introduced groundbreaking approaches to innovating next-generation semantic communication, which prioritizes conveying the meaning of a message rather than merely transmitting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Achintha Wijesinghe , Weiwei Wang , Suchinthaka Wanninayaka , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Codebook-based generative semantic communication attracts increasing attention, since only indices are required to be transmitted when the codebook is shared between transmitter and receiver. However, due to the fact that the semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Peigen Ye , Yaping Sun , Shumin Yao , Hao Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Shuguang Cui

While deep generative models are showing exciting abilities in computer vision and natural language processing, their adoption in communication frameworks is still far underestimated. These methods are demonstrated to evolve solutions to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Eleonora Grassucci , Jihong Park , Sergio Barbarossa , Seong-Lyun Kim , Jinho Choi , Danilo Comminiello

With the booming development of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a new paradigm for reliable and efficient communication. This paper considers a multi-user downlink SemCom system,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jiayi Lu , Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Rahim Tafazolli , Tony Q. S. Quek , Mérouane Debbah , Dong In Kim

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving unprecedented communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to extract and transmit the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jianhao Huang , Qunsong Zeng , Hongyang Du , Kaibin Huang

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

This paper delves into the applications of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in semantic communication (SemCom) and presents a thorough study. Three popular SemCom systems enabled by classical GAI models are first introduced,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Jinke Ren , Yaping Sun , Hongyang Du , Weiwen Yuan , Chongjie Wang , Xianda Wang , Yingbin Zhou , Ziwei Zhu , Fangxin Wang , Shuguang Cui

Semantic communications are expected to accomplish various semantic tasks with relatively less spectrum resource by exploiting the semantic feature of source data. To simultaneously serve both the data transmission and semantic tasks, joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Jianhao Huang , Dongxu Li , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Wei Zhang

In this paper, we investigated semantic communication for multi-task processing using an information-theoretic approach. We introduced the concept of a "semantic source", allowing multiple semantic interpretations from a single observation.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Ahmad Halimi Razlighi , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

Advancements in text-to-image generative AI with large multimodal models are spreading into the field of image compression, creating high-quality representation of images at extremely low bit rates. This work introduces novel components to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Cheng-Lin Wu , Hyomin Choi , Ivan V. Bajić

Deep learning (DL) based semantic communication methods have been explored to transmit images efficiently in recent years. In this paper, we propose a generative model based semantic communication to further improve the efficiency of image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Tianxiao Han , Jiancheng Tang , Qianqian Yang , Yiping Duan , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zhiguo Shi

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

Despite significant advancements in traditional syntactic communications based on Shannon's theory, these methods struggle to meet the requirements of 6G immersive communications, especially under challenging transmission conditions. With…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Hang Yin , Li Qiao , Yu Ma , Shuo Sun , Kan Li , Zhen Gao , Dusit Niyato

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

Generative foundation AI models have recently shown great success in synthesizing natural signals with high perceptual quality using only textual prompts and conditioning signals to guide the generation process. This enables semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Li Qiao , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Zhen Gao , Chuan Heng Foh , Pei Xiao , Mehdi Bennis