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As digital technologies advance, communication networks face challenges in handling the vast data generated by intelligent devices. Autonomous vehicles, smart sensors, and IoT systems necessitate new paradigms. This thesis addresses these…

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Learning-based semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for improving the transmission efficiency of wireless networks. However, existing methods typically rely on extensive end-to-end training, which is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Jihong Park , Zhaoyang Zhang , Kaibin Huang , Deniz Gunduz

To reduce network traffic and support environments with limited resources, a method for transmitting images with minimal transmission data is required. Several machine learning-based image compression methods, which compress the data size…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Eri Hosonuma , Taku Yamazaki , Takumi Miyoshi , Akihito Taya , Yuuki Nishiyama , Kaoru Sezaki

Semantic Communication (SC) is an emerging technology aiming to surpass the Shannon limit. Traditional SC strategies often minimize signal distortion between the original and reconstructed data, neglecting perceptual quality, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Kexin Zhang , Lixin Li , Wensheng Lin , Yuna Yan , Rui Li , Wenchi Cheng , Zhu Han

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

Semantic communications mark a paradigm shift from bit-accurate transmission toward meaning-centric communication, essential as wireless systems approach theoretical capacity limits. The emergence of generative AI has catalyzed generative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Hai-Long Qin , Jincheng Dai , Guo Lu , Shuo Shao , Sixian Wang , Tongda Xu , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

Semantic Communication (SemCom) is envisaged as the next-generation paradigm to address challenges stemming from the conflicts between the increasing volume of transmission data and the scarcity of spectrum resources. However, existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Yiru Wang , Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Yuping Zhao , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zhu Han

In the evolving landscape of 6G networks, semantic communications are poised to revolutionize data transmission by prioritizing the transmission of semantic meaning over raw data accuracy. This paper presents a Vision Transformer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Muhammad Jazib , Zeeshan Alam , Muhmmad Farhan Khan , Muhammad Saad , Muhammad Ali Jamshed

The burgeoning generative artificial intelligence technology offers novel insights into the development of semantic communication (SemCom) frameworks. These frameworks hold the potential to address the challenges associated with the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Hongyang Du , Yanli Yuan , Tony Q. S. Quek

Semantic communication is expected to be one of the cores of next-generation AI-based communications. One of the possibilities offered by semantic communication is the capability to regenerate, at the destination side, images or videos…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Eleonora Grassucci , Sergio Barbarossa , Danilo Comminiello

Reliable image transmission over wireless channels is particularly challenging at extremely low transmission rates, where conventional compression and channel coding schemes fail to preserve adequate visual quality. To address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shengkang Chen , Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Feng Yang , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

Semantic communication has emerged as a new paradigm to facilitate the performance of integrated sensing and communication systems in 6G. However, most of the existing works mainly focus on sensing data compression to reduce the subsequent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Haotian Wang , Dan Wang , Xiaodong Xu , Chuan Huang , Hao Chen , Nan Ma

Semantic communication (SemCom), as a novel paradigm for future communication systems, has recently attracted much attention due to its superiority in communication efficiency. However, similar to traditional communication, it also suffers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Song Gao , Rui Meng , Xiaodong Xu , Haixiao Gao , Yiming Liu , Chenyuan Feng , Ping Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Dusit Niyato

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising technology for enhancing communication efficiency. However, most existing research emphasizes single-task reconstruction, neglecting model adaptability and generalization across multi-task…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weiwen Yuan , Jinke Ren , Chongjie Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Jun Wei , Dong In Kim , Shuguang Cui

Image semantic communication (ISC) has garnered significant attention for its potential to achieve high efficiency in visual content transmission. However, existing ISC systems based on joint source-channel coding face challenges in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Xijun Wang , Dongshan Ye , Chenyuan Feng , Howard H. Yang , Xiang Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

Traditional communication systems focus on the transmission process, and the context-dependent meaning has been ignored. The fact that 5G system has approached Shannon limit and the increasing amount of data will cause communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Chen Dong , Haotai Liang , Xiaodong Xu , Shujun Han , Bizhu Wang , Ping Zhang

Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) is essential for integrating thermal saliency with textural details to support downstream perception. However, most existing approaches suffer from "semantic blindness," leading to the erroneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaoyang Zhang , jinjiang Li , Guodong Fan , Yakun Ju , Linwei Fan , Jun Liu , Alex C. Kot

The end-to-end image communication system has been widely studied in the academic community. The escalating demands on image communication systems in terms of data volume, environmental complexity, and task precision require enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Senran Fan , Zhicheng Bao , Chen Dong , Haotai Liang , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation wireless systems, improving the communication efficiency by transmitting high-level semantic features. However, reliance on unimodal representations can degrade…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Haoran Chang , Mingzhe Chen , Huaxia Wang , Qianqian Zhang

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a transformative paradigm for future 6G networks, offering task-oriented and meaning-aware transmission that fundamentally redefines traditional bit-centric design. Recognized by leading…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Ping Zhang , Xiaodong Xu , Mengying Sun , Haixiao Gao , Nan Ma , Xiaoyun Wang , Ruichen Zhang , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato