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Recently, semantic communication has been widely applied in wireless image transmission systems as it can prioritize the preservation of meaningful semantic information in images over the accuracy of transmitted symbols, leading to improved…

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Text-to-image diffusion models are now capable of generating images that are often indistinguishable from real images. To generate such images, these models must understand the semantics of the objects they are asked to generate. In this…

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Existing text-to-image diffusion models struggle to synthesize realistic images given dense captions, where each text prompt provides a detailed description for a specific image region. To address this, we propose DenseDiffusion, a…

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Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have recently received much research attention since they outperform alternative approaches, such as GANs, and currently provide state-of-the-art generative performance. The superior performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Dmitry Baranchuk , Ivan Rubachev , Andrey Voynov , Valentin Khrulkov , Artem Babenko

Semantic communication is emerging as a key paradigm for 6G networks, where the goal is not to perfectly reconstruct bits but to preserve the meaning that matters for a given task. This shift can improve bandwidth efficiency, robustness,…

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With the development of deep learning (DL), natural language processing (NLP) makes it possible for us to analyze and understand a large amount of language texts. Accordingly, we can achieve a semantic communication in terms of joint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Qingyang Zhou , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao , Chenghui Peng , Honggang Zhang

In recent years, with the rapid development of deep learning and natural language processing technologies, semantic communication has become a topic of great interest in the field of communication. Although existing deep learning-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bingyan Wang , Rongpeng Li , Jianhang Zhu , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang Zhang

Semantic communication, an intelligent communication paradigm that aims to transmit useful information in the semantic domain, is facilitated by deep learning techniques. Robust semantic features can be learned and transmitted in an analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Lei Guo , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Bo Ai

Diffusion models, which have emerged to become popular text-to-image generation models, can produce high-quality and content-rich images guided by textual prompts. However, there are limitations to semantic understanding and commonsense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Shanshan Zhong , Zhongzhan Huang , Wushao Wen , Jinghui Qin , Liang Lin

Traditional communication systems focus on the transmission process, and the context-dependent meaning has been ignored. The fact that 5G system has approached Shannon limit and the increasing amount of data will cause communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-22 Chen Dong , Haotai Liang , Xiaodong Xu , Shujun Han , Bizhu Wang , Ping Zhang

We address the problem of semantic correspondence, that is, establishing a dense flow field between images depicting different instances of the same object or scene category. We propose to use images annotated with binary foreground masks…

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The increasing deployment of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) systems has intensified the demand for efficient agent to agent communication, particularly over bandwidth limited wireless links. In embodied AI applications, agents must…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Peiwen Jiang , Yushuo Feng , Jiajia Guo , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

Text-based communication is expected to be prevalent in 6G applications such as wireless AI-generated content (AIGC). Motivated by this, this paper addresses the challenges of transmitting text prompts over erasure channels for a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Seunghun Lee , Jihong Park , Jinho Choi , Hyuncheol Park

Traditional adversarial attacks concentrate on manipulating clean examples in the pixel space by adding adversarial perturbations. By contrast, semantic adversarial attacks focus on changing semantic attributes of clean examples, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Chenan Wang , Jinhao Duan , Chaowei Xiao , Edward Kim , Matthew Stamm , Kaidi Xu

The growing demands of artificial intelligence and immersive media require communication beyond bit-level accuracy to meaning awareness. Conventional optical systems that focused on syntactic precision suffer significant inefficiencies.…

The recent emergence of 6G raises the challenge of increasing the transmission data rate even further in order to break the barrier set by the Shannon limit. Traditional communication methods fall short of the 6G goals, paving the way for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Sachin Kadam , Dong In Kim

Semantic communication is a novel communication paradigm that focuses on the transportation and delivery of the \emph{meaning} of messages. Recent results have verified that a graphical structure provides the most expressive and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yiwei Liao , Shurui Tu , Yujie Zhou , Dongzi Jin , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li

In this work, a self-attention based conditional generative adversarial network (SA-cGAN) framework for the sixth generation (6G) semantic communication system is proposed, explicitly designed to balance the trade-off between distortion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Faizan Shafi , Rahul Jashvantbhai Pandya , Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas , Sridhar Iyer

In this paper, we propose a semantic communication approach based on probabilistic graphical model (PGM). The proposed approach involves constructing a PGM from a training dataset, which is then shared as common knowledge between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Haowen Wan , Qianqian Yang , Jiancheng Tang , Zhiguo shi

Latent diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion achieve state-of-the-art results on text-to-image generation tasks. However, the extent to which these models have a semantic understanding of the images they generate is not well understood.…

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