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While semantic communications have shown the potential in the case of single-modal single-users, its applications to the multi-user scenario remain limited. In this paper, we investigate deep learning (DL) based multi-user semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao , Khaled B. Letaief

Inter-user interference remains a critical bottleneck in wireless communication systems, particularly in the emerging paradigm of semantic communication (SemCom). Compared to traditional systems, inter-user interference in SemCom severely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Maojun Zhang , Guangxu Zhu , Xiaoming Chen , Kaibin Huang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Semantic communication (SemCom) powered by generative artificial intelligence enables highly efficient and reliable information transmission. However, it still necessitates the transmission of substantial amounts of data when dealing with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Guojun Huang , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Dusit Niyato , Mérouane Debbah , Tie Jun Cui

Vehicle count prediction is an important aspect of smart city traffic management. Most major roads are monitored by cameras with computing and transmitting capabilities. These cameras provide data to the central traffic controller (CTC),…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Sachin Kadam , Dong In Kim

Semantic communications are expected to improve the transmission efficiency in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. However, the distributed nature of networks and heterogeneity of devices challenge the secure utilization of semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Weihao Zeng , Xinyu Xu , Qianyun Zhang , Jiting Shi , Zhenyu Guan , Shufeng Li , Zhijin Qin

Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, the broadcast nature of wireless channels makes SemCom systems vulnerable to eavesdropping, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shunpu Tang , Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Zhiguo Shi

Recent advancements in learning Discrete Representations as opposed to continuous ones have led to state of art results in tasks that involve Language, Audio and Vision. Some latent factors such as words, phonemes and shapes are better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Iordanis Fostiropoulos

In this paper, a novel covert semantic communication framework is investigated. Within this framework, a server extracts and transmits the semantic information, i.e., the meaning of image data, to a user over several time slots. An attacker…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenjing Zhang , Ye Hu , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Mingzhe Chen

Vector Quantized-Variational AutoEncoders (VQ-VAE) are generative models based on discrete latent representations of the data, where inputs are mapped to a finite set of learned embeddings.To generate new samples, an autoregressive prior…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-04 Max Cohen , Guillaume Quispe , Sylvain Le Corff , Charles Ollion , Eric Moulines

A latent denoising semantic communication (SemCom) framework is proposed for robust image transmission over noisy channels. By incorporating a learnable latent denoiser into the receiver, the received signals are preprocessed to effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mingkai Xu , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Xiang-Gen Xia , Wenjun Zhang , Ping Zhang

Deep learning (DL) based semantic communication methods have been explored for the efficient transmission of images, text, and speech in recent years. In contrast to traditional wireless communication methods that focus on the transmission…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Tianxiao Han , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Shibo He , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this paper, the problem of semantic-based efficient image transmission is studied over the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In the considered model, a vehicle shares massive amount of visual data perceived by its visual sensors to assist…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Qiang Pan , Haonan Tong , Jie Lv , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Changchuan Yin , Jianfeng Li

The integration of Vector Quantised Variational AutoEncoder (VQ-VAE) with autoregressive models as generation part has yielded high-quality results on image generation. However, the autoregressive models will strictly follow the progressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Minghui Hu , Yujie Wang , Tat-Jen Cham , Jianfei Yang , P. N. Suganthan

Recent advancements in diffusion models have made a significant breakthrough in generative modeling. The combination of the generative model and semantic communication (SemCom) enables high-fidelity semantic information exchange at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Chunmei Xu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Video semantic communication, praised for its transmission efficiency, still faces critical challenges related to privacy leakage. Traditional security techniques like steganography and encryption are challenging to apply since they are not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Zhihan Cao , Xiao Yang , Gaolei Li , Jun Wu , Jianhua Li , Yuchen Liu

Data-intensive and immersive applications, such as virtual reality, impose stringent quality of experience (QoE) requirements that challenge traditional quality of service (QoS)-driven communication systems. This paper presents LightCom, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Chunmei Xu , Siqi Zhang , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Semantic communication (SemCom) leveraging advanced deep learning (DL) technologies enhances the efficiency and reliability of information transmission. Emerging stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) with an electromagnetic neural network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Guojun Huang , Jiancheng An , Zhaohui Yang , Lu Gan , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

With the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, network communications based on the Shannon-Nyquist theorem gradually reveal their limitations due to the neglect of semantic information in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Linhan Xia , Jiaxin Cai , Ricky Yuen-Tan Hou , Seon-Phil Jeong

In this thesis, we develop methods to enhance the interpretability of recent representation learning techniques in natural language processing (NLP) while accounting for the unavailability of annotated data. We choose to leverage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Ghazi Felhi

As a new communication paradigm, semantic communication has received widespread attention in communication fields. However, since the decoding of semantic signals relies on contextual knowledge, misalignment between the starting position of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Xiaoyi Liu , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu