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In existing semantic communication systems for image transmission, some images are generally reconstructed with considerably low quality. As a result, the reliable transmission of each image cannot be guaranteed, bringing significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

The increased throughput brought by MIMO technology relies on the knowledge of channel state information (CSI) acquired in the base station (BS). To make the CSI feedback overhead affordable for the evolution of MIMO technology (e.g.,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jialong Xu , Bo Ai , Ning Wang , Wei Chen

We consider the transmission of spatially correlated analog information in a wireless sensor network (WSN) through fading single-input and multiple-output (SIMO) multiple access channels (MACs) with low-latency requirements. A lattice-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Pedro Suárez-Casal , Óscar Fresnedo , Darian Pérez-Adán , Luis Castedo

In this paper, we consider a remote inference system, where a neural network is used to infer a time-varying target (e.g., robot movement), based on features (e.g., video clips) that are progressively received from a sensing node (e.g., a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher , Bo Ji , I-Hong Hou , Yin Sun

This paper introduces rateless joint source-channel coding (rateless JSCC). The code is rateless in that it is designed and optimized for a continuum of coding rates such that it achieves a desired distortion for any rate in that continuum.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Saeed R. Khosravirad

Real-time transmission of visual data over wireless networks remains highly challenging, even when leveraging advanced deep neural networks, particularly under severe channel conditions such as limited bandwidth and weak connectivity. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zhenyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Semantic communication is focused on optimizing the exchange of information by transmitting only the most relevant data required to convey the intended message to the receiver and achieve the desired communication goal. For example, if we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Fatemeh Zahra Safaeipour , Morteza Hashemi

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to convey the intended meaning of messages rather than merely transmitting bits, thereby offering greater efficiency and robustness, particularly in resource-constrained or noisy environments. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chengyang Liang , Dong Li

In this paper, we propose a novel design for AI-native goal-oriented communications, exploiting transformer neural networks under dynamic inference constraints on bandwidth and computation. Transformers have become the standard architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Alessio Devoto , Simone Petruzzi , Jary Pomponi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Simone Scardapane

Discretization of semantic features enables interoperability between semantic and digital communication systems, showing significant potential for practical applications. The fundamental difficulty in digitizing semantic features stems from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jianqiao Chen , Tingting Zhu , Huishi Song , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu

Despite significant advancements in deep learning based CSI compression, some key limitations remain unaddressed. Current approaches predominantly treat CSI compression as a source-coding problem, thereby neglecting transmission errors.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Sravan Kumar Ankireddy , Heasung Kim , Joonyoung Cho , Hyeji Kim

Task-oriented semantic communications (TSC) enhance radio resource efficiency by transmitting task-relevant semantic information. However, current research often overlooks the inherent semantic distinctions among encoded features. Due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Shuai Lyu , Yao Sun , Linke Guo , Xiaoyong Yuan , Fang Fang , Lan Zhang , Xianbin Wang

Recent advancements in information technology and the widespread use of the Internet have led to easier access to data worldwide. As a result, transmitting data through noisy channels is inevitable. Reducing the size of data and protecting…

The semantic information of the image for intelligent tasks is hidden behind the pixels, and slight changes in the pixels will affect the performance of intelligent tasks. In order to preserve semantic information behind pixels for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-25 Qizheng Sun , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Jiujiu Chen , Rui Tang , Chuanhong Liu

Semantic communication is emerging as an effective means of facilitating intelligent and context-aware communication for next-generation communication systems. In this paper, we propose a novel metric called Age of Incorrect Semantics…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xue Han , Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Xiang-Gen Xia , Wenjun Zhang , Shengli Sun

Satellite communications face severe bottlenecks in supporting high-fidelity synchronized audiovisual services, as conventional schemes struggle with cross-modal coherence under fluctuating channel conditions, limited bandwidth, and long…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Fangyu Liu , Peiwen Jiang , Wenjin Wang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Semantic communications has received growing interest since it can remarkably reduce the amount of data to be transmitted without missing critical information. Most existing works explore the semantic encoding and transmission for text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Danlan Huang , Feifei Gao , Xiaoming Tao , Qiyuan Du , Jianhua Lu

The goal of semantic communication is to surpass optimal Shannon's criterion regarding a notable problem for future communication which lies in the integration of collaborative efforts between the intelligence of the transmission source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Xinchao Zhong , Sean Longyu Ma , Hong-fu Chou , Arsham Mostaani , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas

Deep learning based semantic communication has achieved significant progress in wireless image transmission, but most existing schemes rely on fixed models and thus lack robustness to diverse image contents and dynamic channel conditions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haowen Wan , Qianqian Yang