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Deep learning based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has demonstrated significant advancements in data reconstruction compared to separate source-channel coding (SSCC). This superiority arises from the suboptimality of SSCC when dealing…

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Sensing and communication are fundamental enablers of next-generation networks. While communication technologies have advanced significantly, sensing remains limited to conventional parameter estimation and is far from fully explored.…

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Recently, semantic communications have drawn great attention as the groundbreaking concept surpasses the limited capacity of Shannon's theory. Specifically, semantic communications probably become crucial in realizing visual tasks that…

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Task-oriented communications, mostly using learning-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC), aim to design a communication-efficient edge inference system by transmitting task-relevant information to the receiver. However, only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Songjie Xie , Shuai Ma , Ming Ding , Yuanming Shi , Mingjian Tang , Youlong Wu

Semantic communication is poised to play a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of future AI-driven communication systems. Its challenge of extracting semantic information from the original complex content and regenerating semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Eleonora Grassucci , Yuki Mitsufuji , Ping Zhang , Danilo Comminiello

Semantic-oriented communication has been considered as a promising to boost the bandwidth efficiency by only transmitting the semantics of the data. In this paper, we propose a multi-level semantic aware communication system for wireless…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-11 Zhenguo Zhang , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Mingyang Sun , Jiming Chen

A coding problem for correlated information sources is investigated. Messages emitted from two correlated sources are jointly encoded, and delivered to two decoders. Each decoder has access to one of the two messages to enable it to…

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This paper investigates distributed source-channel coding for correlated image semantic transmission over wireless channels. In this setup, correlated images at different transmitters are separately encoded and transmitted through dedicated…

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This paper extends the well-known source coding problem of multiple descriptions, in its general and basic setting, to analog source-channel coding scenarios. Encoding-decoding functions that optimally map between the (possibly continuous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Mustafa Said Mehmetoglu , Emrah Akyol , Kenneth Rose

While Separate Source-Channel Coding (SSCC) retains the practical benefits of modular system design, its effectiveness in noisy text transmission is fundamentally constrained by the fragility of autoregressive source decoding. In low-SNR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ziqiong Wang , Rongpeng Li

Semantic knowledge bases are regarded as a promising technology for upcoming 6G communications. However, existing studies mainly focus on source-side semantic modeling while overlooking the structural impact of propagation environments on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xudong Long , Hao Chen , Dan Wang , Chen Qiu , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu , Yubin Zhao

With the aim of accomplishing intelligence tasks, semantic communications transmit task-related information only, yielding significant performance gains over conventional communications. To guarantee user requirements for different types of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Lei Yan , Zhijin Qin , Rui Zhang , Yongzhao Li , Geoffrey Ye Li

Semantic communication represents a promising roadmap toward achieving end-to-end communication with reduced communication overhead and an enhanced user experience. The integration of semantic concepts with wireless communications presents…

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The rapid advancement in large foundation models is propelling the paradigm shifts across various industries. One significant change is that agents, instead of traditional machines or humans, will be the primary participants in the future…

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Task-oriented communication presents a promising approach to improve the communication efficiency of edge inference systems by optimizing learning-based modules to extract and transmit relevant task information. However, real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Songjie Xie , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

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

Rich high-quality annotated data is critical for semantic segmentation learning, yet acquiring dense and pixel-wise ground-truth is both labor- and time-consuming. Coarse annotations (e.g., scribbles, coarse polygons) offer an economical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yadan Luo , Ziwei Wang , Zi Huang , Yang Yang , Cong Zhao

The convergence of robotics, advanced communication networks, and artificial intelligence (AI) holds the promise of transforming industries through fully automated and intelligent operations. In this work, we introduce a novel co-working…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Peizheng Li , Adnan Aijaz

Semantic communications can reduce the resource consumption by transmitting task-related semantic information extracted from source messages. However, when the source messages are utilized for various tasks, e.g., wireless sensing data for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Hongyang Du , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato , Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Junshan Zhang , Xuemin , Shen

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