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As mission-critical (MC) services such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) based emergency communication and Internet of Vehicles (IoVs) enabled autonomous driving emerge, the traditional communication framework can not meet the growing…

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Semantic communication (SemCom) has recently been considered a promising solution for the inevitable crisis of scarce communication resources. This trend stimulates us to explore the potential of applying SemCom to vehicular networks, which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Le Xia , Yao Sun , Dusit Niyato , Kairong Ma , Jiawen Kang , Muhammad Ali Imran

With the evolution of storage and communication protocols, ultra-low bitrate image compression has become a highly demanding topic. However, existing compression algorithms must sacrifice either consistency with the ground truth or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Chunyi Li , Guo Lu , Donghui Feng , Haoning Wu , Zicheng Zhang , Xiaohong Liu , Guangtao Zhai , Weisi Lin , Wenjun Zhang

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

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

Satellite-terrestrial communications are severely constrained by high path loss, limited spectrum resources, and time-varying channel conditions, rendering conventional bit-level transmission schemes inefficient and fragile, particularly in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jinghong Huang , Mengying Sun , Xiaodong Xu , Jianchi Zhu , Zechuan Fang , Jingxuan Zhang , Ruichen Zhang , Chen Dong , Ping Zhang , Dusit Niyato

This paper proposes a novel Semantic Communication (SemCom) framework for real-time adaptive-bitrate video streaming by integrating Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) within the FFmpeg techniques. This solution addresses the challenges of high…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zijiang Yan , Jianhua Pei , Hongda Wu , Hina Tabassum , Ping Wang

Single-user semantic communications have attracted extensive research recently, but multi-user semantic broadcast communication (BC) is still in its infancy. In this paper, we propose a practical robust features-disentangled multi-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Shuai Ma , Weining Qiao , Youlong Wu , Hang Li , Guangming Shi , Dahua Gao , Yuanming Shi , Shiyin Li , Naofal Al-Dhahir

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

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

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a key technology for the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) network, attributed to its enhanced communication efficiency and robustness against channel noise. However, the open nature of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Shunpu Tang , Chen Liu , Qianqian Yang , Shibo He , Dusit Niyato

Semantic communication technology emerges as a pivotal bridge connecting AI with classical communication. The current semantic communication systems are generally modeled as an Auto-Encoder (AE). AE lacks a deep integration of AI principles…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Yulong Feng , Jing Xu , Liujun Hu , Guanghui Yu , Xiangyang Duan

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to enhance the resource efficiency of next-generation networks by transmitting the underlying meaning of messages, focusing on information relevant to the end user. Existing literature on SemCom…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Nasrin Gholami , Neda Moghim , Behrouz Shahgholi Ghahfarokhi , Pouyan Salavati , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Sachin Shetty , Tahereh Rahmati

Token Communication (TokenCom) is a new paradigm, motivated by the recent success of Large AI Models (LAMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), where tokens serve as unified units of communication and computation, enabling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jingxuan Men , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Ning Wang , Yi Ma , Mike Nilsson , Rahim Tafazolli

Vector quantization-based image semantic communication systems have successfully boosted transmission efficiency, but face challenges with conflicting requirements between codebook design and digital constellation modulation. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yingbin Zhou , Yaping Sun , Guanying Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Hao Chen , Binhong Huang , Shuguang Cui , Ping Zhang

Along with the proliferating research interest in Semantic Communication (SemCom), Joint Source Channel Coding (JSCC) has dominated the attention due to the widely assumed existence in efficiently delivering information semantics.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tianqi Ren , Rongpeng Li , Ming-min Zhao , Xianfu Chen , Guangyi Liu , Yang Yang , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Semantic communication has witnessed a great progress with the development of natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning (DL). Although existing semantic communication technologies can effectively reduce errors in semantic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Yong Xiao , Honggang Zhang

Task-oriented semantic communication (SemCom) prioritizes task execution over accurate symbol reconstruction and is well-suited to emerging intelligent applications. Cooperative multi-task SemCom (CMT-SemCom) further improves task execution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Ahmad Halimi Razlighi , Pallavi Dhingra , Edgar Beck , Bho Matthiesen , Armin Dekorsy

The sixth-generation mobile communication system proposes the vision of smart interconnection of everything, which requires accomplishing communication tasks while ensuring the performance of intelligent tasks. A joint source-channel coding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Qizheng Sun , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Jiujiu Chen , Rui Tang , Chuanhong Liu

The traditional communications transmit all the source data represented by bits, regardless of the content of source and the semantic information required by the receiver. However, in some applications, the receiver only needs part of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li