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Semantic communication, regarded as the breakthrough beyond the Shannon paradigm, aims at the successful transmission of semantic information conveyed by the source rather than the accurate reception of each single symbol or bit regardless…

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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

The "Smart City" (SC) concept revolves around the idea of embodying cutting-edge ICT solutions in the very fabric of future cities, in order to offer new and better services to citizens while lowering the city management costs, both in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Federico Chiariotti , Massimo Condoluci , Toktam Mahmoodi , Andrea Zanella

With the recent advancements in edge artificial intelligence (AI), future sixth-generation (6G) networks need to support new AI tasks such as classification and clustering apart from data recovery. Motivated by the success of deep learning,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Zhonghao Lyu , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Bo Ai , Shuguang Cui

Interactive computer vision (CV) plays a crucial role in various real-world applications, whose performance is highly dependent on communication networks. Nonetheless, the data-oriented characteristics of conventional communications often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Bin Chen , Wenbo Yu , Qinshan Zhang , Tianqu Zhuang , Hao Wu , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

This paper introduces the distributed and intelligent integrated sensing and communications (DISAC) concept, a transformative approach for 6G wireless networks that extends the emerging concept of integrated sensing and communications…

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

Smart building (SB), a promising solution to fast-paced and continuous urbanization around the world, includes the integration of a wide range of systems and services and involves the construction of multiple layers. SB is capable of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Shuping Dang , Guoqing Ma , Basem Shihada , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper investigates the optimization of transmitting the encoder outputs, termed semantic features (SFs), in semantic communication (SC). We begin by modeling the entire communication process from the encoder output to the decoder…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Yongjeong Oh , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Yo-Seb Jeon

As the global demand for data has continued to rise exponentially, some have begun turning to the idea of semantic communication as a means of efficiently meeting this demand. Pushing beyond the boundaries of conventional communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dylan Wheeler , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

Recently, deep learning enabled semantic communications have been developed to understand transmission content from semantic level, which realize effective and accurate information transfer. Aiming to the vision of sixth generation (6G)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Zhengyu Zhang , Ruisi He , Mi Yang , Xuejian Zhang , Ziyi Qi , Yuan Yuan , Bo Ai

Semantic communications leverage artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to extract semantic information for efficient data delivery, thereby significantly reducing communication cost. With the evolution towards artificial general…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Xiaojun Yuan , Haoming Ma , Yinuo Huang , Zhoufan Hua , Yong Zuo , Zhi Ding

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

Expected to provide higher transportation efficiency and security, autonomous driving has attracted substantial attentions from both industry and academia. Meanwhile, the emergence of edge intelligence has further introduced significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Yunqi Feng , Hesheng Shen , Zhendong Shan , Qianqian Yang , Xiufang Shi

Semantic communication, as a promising technology, has emerged to break through the Shannon limit, which is envisioned as the key enabler and fundamental paradigm for future 6G networks and applications, e.g., smart healthcare. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-27 Jiawen Kang , Hongyang Du , Zonghang Li , Zehui Xiong , Shiyao Ma , Dusit Niyato , Yuan Li

Semantic communications has received growing interest since it can remarkably reduce the amount of data to be transmitted without missing critical information. Most existing works explore the semantic encoding and transmission for text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Danlan Huang , Feifei Gao , Xiaoming Tao , Qiyuan Du , Jianhua Lu

This letter proposes a novel relaying framework, semantic-forward (SF), for cooperative communications towards the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. The SF relay extracts and transmits the semantic features, which reduces forwarding…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Wensheng Lin , Yuna Yan , Lixin Li , Zhu Han , Tad Matsumoto

Semantic communications represent a significant breakthrough with respect to the current communication paradigm, as they focus on recovering the meaning behind the transmitted sequence of symbols, rather than the symbols themselves. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 S. Barbarossa , D. Comminiello , E. Grassucci , F. Pezone , S. Sardellitti , P. Di Lorenzo

The increasing popularity of applications like the Metaverse has led to the exploration of new, more effective ways of communication. Semantic communication, which focuses on the meaning behind transmitted information, represents a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Wenhan Yu , Jun Zhao

Achieving more powerful semantic representations and semantic understanding is one of the key problems in improving the performance of semantic communication systems. This work focuses on enhancing the semantic understanding of the text…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Mengli Tao , Jiancun Fan , Jie Luo , Huiqiang Xie