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In this paper we present an end-to-end meta-learned system for image compression. Traditional machine learning based approaches to image compression train one or more neural network for generalization performance. However, at inference…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Nannan Zou , Honglei Zhang , Francesco Cricri , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Jani Lainema , Miska Hannuksela , Emre Aksu , Esa Rahtu

The high dimensional and semantically complex nature of textual Big data presents significant challenges for text clustering, which frequently lead to suboptimal groupings when using conventional techniques like k-means or hierarchical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Mohammad Wali Ur Rahman , Ric Nevarez , Lamia Tasnim Mim , Salim Hariri

The rapid development of intelligent tasks, e.g., segmentation, detection, classification, etc, has brought an urgent need for semantic compression, which aims to reduce the compression cost while maintaining the original semantic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Guangqi Xie , Xin Li , Shiqi Lin , Li Zhang , Kai Zhang , Yue Li , Zhibo Chen

Multimodal semantic communication has great potential to enhance downstream task performance by integrating complementary information across modalities. This paper introduces ProMSC-MIS, a novel Prompt-based Multimodal Semantic…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao

Learned Image Compression (LIC) has shown remarkable progress in recent years. Existing works commonly employ CNN-based or self-attention-based modules as transform methods for compression. However, there is no prior research on neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yuxi Liu , Wenhan Yang , Huihui Bai , Yunchao Wei , Yao Zhao

Unsupervised video semantic compression (UVSC), i.e., compressing videos to better support various analysis tasks, has recently garnered attention. However, the semantic richness of previous methods remains limited, due to the single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yuan Tian , Guo Lu , Guangtao Zhai

Recent contributions of semantic information theory reveal the set-element relationship between semantic and syntactic information, represented as synonymous relationships. In this paper, we propose a synonymous variational inference (SVI)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zijian Liang , Kai Niu , Changshuo Wang , Jin Xu , Ping Zhang

Current approaches to learning semantic representations of sentences often use prior word-level knowledge. The current study aims to leverage visual information in order to capture sentence level semantics without the need for word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Danny Merkx , Stefan Frank

Goal-oriented semantic communication (SC) aims to revolutionize communication systems by transmitting only task-essential information. However, current approaches face challenges such as joint training at transceivers, leading to redundant…

The recently developed and publicly available synthetic image generation methods and services make it possible to create extremely realistic imagery on demand, raising great risks for the integrity and safety of online information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos

We study semantic compression for text where meanings contained in the text are conveyed to a source decoder, e.g., for classification. The main motivator to move to such an approach of recovering the meaning without requiring exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Emrecan Kutay , Aylin Yener

This paper investigates the challenging problem of learned image compression (LIC) with extreme low bitrates. Previous LIC methods based on transmitting quantized continuous features often yield blurry and noisy reconstruction due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Lei Lu , Yanyue Xie , Wei Jiang , Wei Wang , Xue Lin , Yanzhi Wang

In this paper, we study how to synthesize a dynamic reference from an external dictionary to perform conditional coding of the input image in the latent domain and how to learn the conditional latent synthesis and coding modules in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Siqi Wu , Yinda Chen , Dong Liu , Zhihai He

While large language-image pre-trained models like CLIP offer powerful generic features for image clustering, existing methods typically freeze the encoder. This creates a fundamental mismatch between the model's task-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zihan Li , Wei Sun , Jing Hu , Jianhua Yin , Jianlong Wu , Liqiang Nie

CLIP embeddings have demonstrated remarkable performance across a wide range of multimodal applications. However, these high-dimensional, dense vector representations are not easily interpretable, limiting our understanding of the rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Usha Bhalla , Alex Oesterling , Suraj Srinivas , Flavio P. Calmon , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Task-oriented semantic communication has gained increasing attention due to its ability to reduce the amount of transmitted data without sacrificing task performance. Although some prior efforts have been dedicated to developing semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Chuanhong Liu , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Wanli Ni , Yanquan Zhou , Lei Li , Tony Q. S. Quek

As an increasing amount of image and video content will be analyzed by machines, there is demand for a new codec paradigm that is capable of compressing visual input primarily for the purpose of computer vision inference, while secondarily…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Ezgi Ozyilkan , Mateen Ulhaq , Hyomin Choi , Fabien Racape

Traditional single-modality sensing faces limitations in accuracy and capability, and its decoupled implementation with communication systems increases latency in bandwidth-constrained environments. Additionally, single-task-oriented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yubo Peng , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang , Feibo Jiang , Kezhi Wang , Dapeng Oliver Wu

By integrating recent advances in large language models (LLMs) and generative models into the emerging semantic communication (SC) paradigm, in this article we put forward to a novel framework of language-oriented semantic communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Hyelin Nam , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

Diffusion-based image compression has demonstrated impressive perceptual performance. However, it suffers from two critical drawbacks: (1) excessive decoding latency due to multi-step sampling, and (2) poor fidelity resulting from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Zheng Chen , Mingde Zhou , Jinpei Guo , Jiale Yuan , Yifei Ji , Yulun Zhang