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Semantic communication, when examined through the lens of joint source-channel coding (JSCC), maps source messages directly into channel input symbols, where the measure of success is defined by end-to-end distortion rather than traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tze-Yang Tung , Homa Esfahanizadeh , Jinfeng Du , Harish Viswanathan

Despite great advances, achieving high-fidelity emotional voice conversion (EVC) with flexible and interpretable control remains challenging. This paper introduces ClapFM-EVC, a novel EVC framework capable of generating high-quality…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yu Pan , Yanni Hu , Yuguang Yang , Jixun Yao , Jianhao Ye , Hongbin Zhou , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao

Most existing semantic communication (SemCom) systems use deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) to encode task-specific semantics in a goal-oriented manner. However, their reliance on predefined tasks and datasets significantly limits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Jiangjing Hu , Haotian Wu , Wenjing Zhang , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Hui Gao , Deniz Gündüz

Voice conversion (VC) modifies voice characteristics while preserving linguistic content. This paper presents the Stepback network, a novel model for converting speaker identity using non-parallel data. Unlike traditional VC methods that…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Qian Yang , Calbert Graham

Elastic precision quantization enables multi-bit deployment via a single optimization pass, fitting diverse quantization scenarios.Yet, the high storage and optimization costs associated with the Transformer architecture, research on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ke Xu , Yixin Wang , Zhongcheng Li , Hao Cui , Jinshui Hu , Xingyi Zhang

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving transmission efficiency and task-level reliability, yet most existing reliability-enhancement approaches rely on retransmission strategies driven by semantic fidelity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Boyuan Li , Shuoyao Wang , Suzhi Bi , Liping Qian , Yunlong Cai

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is expected to be an effective solution to deliver 360-degree virtual reality (VR) videos over wireless networks. In contrast to previous computation-constrained MEC framework, which reduces the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Xiao Yang , Zhiyong Chen , Kuikui Li , Yaping Sun , Hongming Zheng

High-fidelity neural audio codecs in Text-to-speech (TTS) aim to compress speech signals into discrete representations for faithful reconstruction. However, prior approaches faced challenges in effectively disentangling acoustic and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ruonan Zhang , Xiaoyang Hao , Yichen Han , Junjie Cao , Yue Liu , Kai Zhang

Semantic communication (SemCom) significantly improves inter-vehicle interactions in intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) within limited wireless spectrum. However, the open nature of wireless communications introduces eavesdropping risks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Bizhu Wang , Zhiqiang Bian , Yue Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Chen Sun , Wenqi Zhang , Ping Zhang

Recently, deep learned enabled end-to-end (E2E) communication systems have been developed to merge all physical layer blocks in the traditional communication systems, which make joint transceiver optimization possible. Powered by deep…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li , Biing-Hwang Juang

In this paper, we present a novel framework that jointly performs three tasks: speaker diarization, speech separation, and speaker counting. Our proposed framework integrates speaker diarization based on end-to-end neural diarization (EEND)…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Soumi Maiti , Yushi Ueda , Shinji Watanabe , Chunlei Zhang , Meng Yu , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Yong Xu

This paper considers a multi-user semantic and data communication (MU-SemDaCom) system, where a base station (BS) simultaneously serves users with different semantic and data tasks through a downlink multi-user multiple-input single-output…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Kai Yuan , Dongxu Li , Jianhao Huang , Han Zhang , Chuan Huang

Attention-based methods and Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) network have been promising research directions for end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The joint CTC/Attention model has achieved great success by utilizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ruizhi Li , Xiaofei Wang , Sri Harish Mallidi , Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Hynek Hermansky

Future mobile networks supporting Internet of Things are expected to provide both high throughput and low latency to user-specific services. One way to overcome this challenge is to adopt network function virtualization and Multi-access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Emmanouil Fountoulakis , Qi Liao , Manuel Stein , Nikolaos Pappas

Recent neural audio compression models often rely on residual vector quantization for high-fidelity coding, but using a fixed number of per-frame codebooks is suboptimal for the wide variability of audio content-especially for signals that…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xiangbo Wang , Wenbin Jiang , Jin Wang , Yubo You , Sheng Fang , Fei Wen

Recently, the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth in multi-modal communication systems requires a paradigm shift. Powered by deep learning, semantic communications are applied to multi-modal scenarios to boost communication efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Yangshuo He , Guanding Yu , Yunlong Cai

Deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) has shown promise in wireless transmission of text, speech, and images within the realm of semantic communication. However, wireless video transmission presents greater challenges due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Xinyi Zhou , Danlan Huang , Zhixin Qi , Liang Zhang , Ting Jiang

End-to-end autonomous driving requires models to understand traffic scenes, infer driving intent, and generate executable motion plans. Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models inherit semantic priors from large-scale vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Rui Zhao , Jianlin Yu , Zhenhai Gao , Jiaqiao Liu , Fei Gao

Semantic communication has gained significant attention from researchers as a promising technique to replace conventional communication in the next generation of communication systems, primarily due to its ability to reduce communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Loc X. Nguyen , Ye Lin Tun , Yan Kyaw Tun , Minh N. H. Nguyen , Chaoning Zhang , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

End-to-end speech translation poses a heavy burden on the encoder, because it has to transcribe, understand, and learn cross-lingual semantics simultaneously. To obtain a powerful encoder, traditional methods pre-train it on ASR data to…

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