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Semantic communication focuses on conveying the task-relevant meaning rather than exact bitwise recovery. For image transmission with a generative receiver, relying only on text descriptions can be insufficient to preserve instance-specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xuesong Wang , Xinyan Xie , Mo Li , Zhaoqian Liu

Semantic communication emphasizes the transmission of meaning rather than raw symbols. It offers a promising solution to alleviate network congestion and improve transmission efficiency. In this paper, we propose a wireless image…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Chen Zhu , Siyun Liang , Zhouxiang Zhao , Jianrong Bao , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Semantic communication represents a promising technique towards reducing communication costs, especially when dealing with image segmentation, but it still lacks a balance between computational efficiency and bandwidth requirements while…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ebrahim Abu-Helalah , Jordi Serra , Jordi Perez-Romero

Semantic communication, emerging as a promising paradigm for data transmission, offers an innovative departure from the constraints of Shannon theory, heralding significant advancements in future communication technologies. Despite the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jinho Choi , Jihong Park , Eleonora Grassucci , Danilo Comminiello

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising technology for enhancing communication efficiency. However, most existing research emphasizes single-task reconstruction, neglecting model adaptability and generalization across multi-task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weiwen Yuan , Jinke Ren , Chongjie Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Jun Wei , Dong In Kim , Shuguang Cui

Upon the arrival of emerging devices, including Extended Reality (XR) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), the traditional communication framework is approaching Shannon's physical capacity limit and fails to guarantee the massive amount of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Hui Zhou , Yansha Deng , Xiaonan Liu , Nikolaos Pappas , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

From photorealistic sketches to schematic diagrams, drawing provides a versatile medium for communicating about the visual world. How do images spanning such a broad range of appearances reliably convey meaning? Do viewers understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Robert D. Hawkins , Megumi Sano , Noah D. Goodman , Judith E. Fan

Enriching information of spectrum coverage, radiomap plays an important role in many wireless communication applications, such as resource allocation and network optimization. To enable real-time, distributed spectrum management,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Yueling Zhou , Achintha Wijesinghe , Yue Wang , Songyang Zhang , Zhipeng Cai

Domain shift is a very challenging problem for semantic segmentation. Any model can be easily trained on synthetic data, where images and labels are artificially generated, but it will perform poorly when deployed on real environments. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Luigi Musto , Andrea Zinelli

Semantic communication is envisioned as a promising technique to break through the Shannon limit. However, semantic inference and semantic error correction have not been well studied. Moreover, error correction methods of existing semantic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Fuhui Zhou , Yihao Li , Ming Xu , Lu Yuan , Qihui Wu , Rose Qingyang Hu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

As communication systems transition from symbol transmission to conveying meaningful information, sixth-generation (6G) networks emphasize semantic communication. This approach prioritizes high-level semantic information, improving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Zhe Xiang , Fei Yu , Quan Deng , Yuandi Li , Zhiguo Wan

Mobile devices increasingly require the parallel execution of several computing tasks offloaded at the wireless edge. Existing communication systems only support parallel transmissions at the bit level, which fundamentally limits the number…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Mohammad Abdi , Francesca Meneghello , Francesco Restuccia

Semantic communication (SemCom) with learned encoder-decoder architectures enables end-to-end learning of compact task-oriented representations optimized for the wireless channel, reducing channel resources needed to convey task-relevant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek

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

This paper proposes new framework of communication system leveraging promising generation capabilities of multi-modal generative models. Regarding nowadays smart applications, successful communication can be made by conveying the perceptual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-11 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Seong-Lyun Kim

Images with visual and scene text content are ubiquitous in everyday life. However, current image interpretation systems are mostly limited to using only the visual features, neglecting to leverage the scene text content. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Arka Ujjal Dey , Suman Kumar Ghosh , Ernest Valveny , Gaurav Harit

3D semantic maps have played an increasingly important role in high-precision robot localization and scene understanding. However, real-time construction of semantic maps requires mobile edge devices with extremely high computing power,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jiaxing Zhang , Luosong Guo , Kun Zhu , Houming Qiu

The design of communication systems has traditionally focused on the reliable and timely delivery of data. However, the scalability challenges faced by the evolution to a 6G-driven society demand new communication paradigms that carefully…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Luca Lusvarghi , Javier Gozalvez , Baldomero Coll-Perales , Mohammad Irfan Khan , Miguel Sepulcre , Seyhan Ucar , Onur Altintas

Semantic communications, aiming at ensuring the successful delivery of the meaning of information, are expected to be one of the potential techniques for the next generation communications. However, the knowledge forming and synchronizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuan Zheng , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Miao Pan , Ping Zhang