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This paper introduces Implicit-JSCC, a novel overfitted joint source-channel coding paradigm that directly optimizes channel symbols and a lightweight neural decoder for each source. This instance-specific strategy eliminates the need for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Haotian Wu , Gen Li , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gündüz

In visual semantic navigation, the robot navigates to a target object with egocentric visual observations and the class label of the target is given. It is a meaningful task inspiring a surge of relevant research. However, most of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Xinzhu Liu , Di Guo , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) exhibits notable potential for sensing the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), facilitating real-time monitoring of UAVs for security insurance. Due to the low sensing accuracy of single base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Xi Lu , Zhiqing Wei , Ruizhong Xu , Lin Wang , Bohao Lu , Jinghui Piao

In a multi-agent system (MAS), action semantics indicates the different influences of agents' actions toward other entities, and can be used to divide agents into groups in a physically heterogeneous MAS. Previous multi-agent reinforcement…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiaoyang Yu , Youfang Lin , Shuo Wang , Kai Lv , Sheng Han

Motivated by surveillance applications with wireless cameras or drones, we consider the problem of image retrieval over a wireless channel. Conventional systems apply lossy compression on query images to reduce the data that must be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Mikolaj Jankowski , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

A multi-agent AI system (MAS) is composed of multiple autonomous agents that interact, exchange information, and make decisions based on internal generative models. Recent advances in large language models and tool-using agents have made…

We present a deep learning based joint source channel coding (JSCC) scheme for wireless image transmission over multipath fading channels with non-linear signal clipping. The proposed encoder and decoder use convolutional neural networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Mingyu Yang , Chenghong Bian , Hun-Seok Kim

Earth observation with small satellites serves a wide range of relevant applications. However, significant advances in sensor technology (e.g., higher resolution, multiple spectrums beyond visible light) in combination with challenging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Olga Kondrateva , Stefan Dietzel , Björn Scheuermann

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have introduced groundbreaking approaches to innovating next-generation semantic communication, which prioritizes conveying the meaning of a message rather than merely transmitting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Achintha Wijesinghe , Weiwei Wang , Suchinthaka Wanninayaka , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

Semantic communication aims to convey meaning for effective task execution, but differing latent representations in AI-native devices can cause semantic mismatches that hinder mutual understanding. This paper introduces a novel approach to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Giuseppe Di Poce , Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), as a technology enabled seamless connection between communication and sensing, is regarded a core enabling technology for these applications. However, the accuracy of single-node sensing in ISAC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Haotian Liu , Zhiqing Wei , Luyang Sun , Ruizhong Xu , Yixin Zhang , Zhiyong Feng

We propose a joint source-channel-network coding scheme, based on compressive sensing principles, for wireless networks with AWGN channels (that may include multiple access and broadcast), with sources exhibiting temporal and spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-04 Soheil Feizi , Muriel Medard

As terrestrial resources become increasingly saturated, the research attention is shifting to the low-altitude airspace, with many emerging applications such as urban air taxis and aerial inspection. Low-Altitude Wireless Networks (LAWNs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jiacheng Wang , Changyuan Zhao , Jialing He , Geng Sun , Weijie Yuan , Dusit Niyato , Liehuang Zhu , Tao Xiang

Semantic communication (SemCom) has been deemed as a promising communication paradigm to break through the bottleneck of traditional communications. Nonetheless, most of the existing works focus more on point-to-point communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Zhilin Lu , Rongpeng Li , Ming Lei , Chan Wang , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Collaborative multi-agent exploration of unknown environments is crucial for search and rescue operations. Effective real-world deployment must address challenges such as limited inter-agent communication and static and dynamic obstacles.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Gabriele Calzolari , Vidya Sumathy , Christoforos Kanellakis , George Nikolakopoulos

We relax the constraint of a shared language between agents in a semantic and goal-oriented communication system to explore the effect of language mismatch in distributed task solving. We propose a mathematical framework, which provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tomás Hüttebräucker , Mohamed Sana , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Constructing a consistent shared spatial memory is a critical challenge in multi-agent systems, where partial observability and limited bandwidth often lead to catastrophic failures in coordination. We introduce a multi-agent predictive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhengru Fang , Yu Guo , Yuang Zhang , Haonan An , Wenbo Ding , Yuguang Fang

Recent developments in Deep learning based Joint Source-Channel Coding (DeepJSCC) have demonstrated impressive capabilities within wireless semantic communications system. However, existing DeepJSCC methodologies exhibit limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Liang Zhang , Danlan Huang , Xinyi Zhou , Feng Ding , Sheng Wu , Zhiqing Wei

Task-oriented semantic communications have achieved significant performance gains. However, the employed deep neural networks in semantic communications have to be updated when the task is changed or multiple models need to be stored for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Xiaoming Tao

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