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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 is an emerging research area that has gained a wide range of attention recently. Despite this growing interest, there remains a notable absence of a comprehensive and widely-accepted framework for characterizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yulin Shao , Qi Cao , Deniz Gunduz

In this paper, a semantic communication framework is proposed for textual data transmission. In the studied model, a base station (BS) extracts the semantic information from textual data, and transmits it to each user. The semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Yining Wang , Mingzhe Chen , Tao Luo , Walid Saad , Dusit Niyato , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

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

In the ensuing ultra-dense and diverse environment in future \ac{6G} communication networks, it will be critical to optimize network resources via mechanisms that recognize and cater to the diversity, density, and dynamicity of system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mayukh Roy Chowdhury , Eman Hammad , Lauri Loven , Susanna Pirttikangas , Aloizio P da Silva , Walid Saad

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for next-generation networks, yet several fundamental challenges remain unresolved. Building on the probabilistic model of semantic communication and leveraging the concept of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Javad Gholipour , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard P. Fettweis

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

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

The increasing complexity and scale of modern telecommunications networks demand intelligent automation to enhance efficiency, adaptability, and resilience. Agentic AI has emerged as a key paradigm for intelligent communications and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ruichen Zhang , Shunpu Tang , Yinqiu Liu , Dusit Niyato , Zehui Xiong , Sumei Sun , Shiwen Mao , Zhu Han

Semantic communications seeks to transfer information from a source while conveying a desired meaning to its destination. We model the transmitter-receiver functionalities as an autoencoder followed by a task classifier that evaluates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

The Internet has evolved through successive architectural abstractions that enabled unprecedented scale, interoperability, and innovation. Packet-based networking enabled the reliable transport of bits; cloud-native systems enabled the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mallik Tatipamula , Xuesong Liu , Yao Sun , Muhammad Ali Imran

Recent developments in machine learning (ML) techniques enable users to extract, transmit, and reproduce information semantics via ML-based semantic communication (SemCom). This significantly increases network spectral efficiency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Guhan Zheng , Qiang Ni , Aryan Kaushik , Lixia Yang , Yushi Wang , Charilaos Zarakovitis

Accurately predicting the possible behaviors of traffic participants is an essential capability for autonomous vehicles. Since autonomous vehicles need to navigate in dynamically changing environments, they are expected to make accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yeping Hu , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising technique for the next-generation communication systems, in which the generation at the receiver side is allowed with semantic features' recovery. However, the majority of existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Chengyang Liang , Dong Li

Semantic communication (SemCom) improves communication efficiency by transmitting task-relevant information instead of raw bits and is expected to be a key technology for 6G networks. Recent advances in generative AI (GenAI) further enhance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Shunpu Tang , Yuanyuan Jia , Zijiu Yang , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Jun Du , Jihong Park , Zhiguo Shi , Jiming Chen

Semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than raw input symbol sequences. Task-oriented semantic communication is a variant that tries to retains only task-specific information, thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Xuesong Wang , Mo Li , Xingyan Shi , Zhaoqian Liu , Shenghao Yang

Semantic communication has emerged as new paradigm shifts in 6G from the conventional syntax-oriented communications. Recently, the wireless broadcast technology has been introduced to support semantic communication system toward higher…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Mingze Gong , Shuoyao Wang , Fangwei Ye , Suzhi Bi

Recently image inpainting has witnessed rapid progress due to generative adversarial networks (GAN) that are able to synthesize realistic contents. However, most existing GAN-based methods for semantic inpainting apply an auto-encoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Haofeng Li , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin , Yizhou Yu

The ability to efficiently search for images is essential for improving the user experiences across various products. Incorporating user feedback, via multi-modal inputs, to navigate visual search can help tailor retrieved results to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Surgan Jandial , Pinkesh Badjatiya , Pranit Chawla , Ayush Chopra , Mausoom Sarkar , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Foundation model-based semantic transmission has recently shown great potential in wireless image communication. However, existing methods exhibit two major limitations: (i) they overlook the varying importance of semantic components for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Fangyu Liu , Peiwen Jiang , Wenjin Wang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang