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Semantic communications have been utilized to execute numerous intelligent tasks by transmitting task-related semantic information instead of bits. In this article, we propose a semantic-aware speech-to-text transmission system for the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Huiqiang Xie , Xiaoming Tao , Khaled B. Letaief

With the continuous increase in the number and resolution of video surveillance cameras, the burden of transmitting and storing surveillance video is growing. Traditional communication methods based on Shannon's theory are facing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Baoping Cheng , Yukun Zhang , Liming Wang , Xiaoyan Xie , Tao Fu , Dongkun Wang , Xiaoming Tao

In surgical computer vision applications, obtaining labeled training data is challenging due to data-privacy concerns and the need for expert annotation. Unpaired image-to-image translation techniques have been explored to automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Danush Kumar Venkatesh , Dominik Rivoir , Micha Pfeiffer , Fiona Kolbinger , Marius Distler , Jürgen Weitz , Stefanie Speidel

Reliable detection of surrounding objects is critical for the safe operation of connected automated vehicles (CAVs). However, inherent limitations such as the restricted perception range and occlusion effects compromise the reliability of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Jipeng Gan , Yucheng Sheng , Hua Zhang , Le Liang , Hao Ye , Chongtao Guo , Shi Jin

Spurred by a huge interest in the post-Shannon communication, it has recently been shown that leveraging semantics can significantly improve the communication effectiveness across many tasks. In this article, inspired by human…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Hyowoon Seo , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

Semantic communication is emerging as a key paradigm for 6G networks, where the goal is not to perfectly reconstruct bits but to preserve the meaning that matters for a given task. This shift can improve bandwidth efficiency, robustness,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tuğçe Bilen , Ian F. Akyildiz

Semantic communication shifts the focus from bit-level accuracy to task-relevant semantic delivery, enabling efficient and intelligent communication for next-generation networks. However, existing multi-modal solutions often process all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yujie Zhou , Cheng Peng , Rulong Wang , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , Ping Zhang

With the emergence of the metaverse and its role in enabling real-time simulation and analysis of real-world counterparts, an increasing number of personalized metaverse scenarios are being created to influence entertainment experiences and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-08 Zhe Wang , Nan Li , Yansha Deng

Although semantic communication (SC) has shown its potential in efficiently transmitting multimodal data such as texts, speeches and images, SC for videos has focused primarily on pixel-level reconstruction. However, these SC systems may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jiangyuan Guo , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Jialong Xu , Bo Ai

In this paper, we propose a novel design for AI-native goal-oriented communications, exploiting transformer neural networks under dynamic inference constraints on bandwidth and computation. Transformers have become the standard architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Alessio Devoto , Simone Petruzzi , Jary Pomponi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Simone Scardapane

Interacting and understanding with text heavy visual content with multiple images is a major challenge for traditional vision models. This paper is on enhancing vision models' capability to comprehend or understand and learn from images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-31 Adithya TG , Adithya SK , Abhinav R Bharadwaj , Abhiram HA , Surabhi Narayan

Task-oriented image semantic communication is a new communication paradigm, which aims to transmit semantics for artificial intelligent (AI) tasks while ignoring the reconstruction quality of the images. However, in some applications, such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Fangfang Liu , Wanjie Tong , Yang Yang , Zhengfen Sun , Caili Guo

Image-text matching has been a hot research topic bridging the vision and language areas. It remains challenging because the current representation of image usually lacks global semantic concepts as in its corresponding text caption. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Kunpeng Li , Yulun Zhang , Kai Li , Yuanyuan Li , Yun Fu

In smart cities, bandwidth-constrained Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) often fail to relay mission-critical data in time, compromising real-time decision-making. This highlights the need for faster and more efficient transmission of only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Poorvi Joshi , Mohan Gurusamy

We present our vision for a departure from the established way of architecting and assessing communication networks, by incorporating the semantics of information for communications and control in networked systems. We define semantics of…

Semantic communication aims to convey meaning rather than bit-perfect reproduction, representing a paradigm shift from traditional communication. This paper investigates distribution learning in semantic communication where receivers must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Samer Lahoud , Kinda Khawam

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communication systems require large antenna arrays and use narrow directive beams to ensure sufficient receive signal power. However, selecting the optimal beams for these large antenna arrays…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Shoaib Imran , Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence has spurred innovative approaches to semantic communication, giving rise to a new paradigm known as generative semantic communication (GSC). The integration of flexible cross-modal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Yiru Wang , Wanting Yang , Fangli Mou , Zehui Xiong , Zide Fan , Shiwen Mao , Tony Q. S. Quek

Semantic communication has undergone considerable evolution due to the recent rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), significantly enhancing both communication robustness and efficiency. Despite these advancements, most current…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Jiarun Ding , Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin