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This paper addresses the problem of end-to-end (E2E) design of learning and communication in a task-oriented semantic communication system. In particular, we consider a multi-device cooperative edge inference system over a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Chang Cai , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

This paper presents a novel semantic-enhanced decoding scheme for transmitting natural language sentences with multiple short block codes over noisy wireless channels. After ASCII source coding, the natural language sentence message is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Jiafu Hao , Chentao Yue , Hao Chang , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

Current privacy-aware joint source-channel coding (JSCC) works aim at avoiding private information transmission by adversarially training the JSCC encoder and decoder under specific signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of eavesdroppers. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Lunan Sun , Caili Guo , Mingzhe Chen , Yang Yang

Small satellites are widely used today as cost effective means to perform Earth observation and other tasks that generate large amounts of high-dimensional data, such as multi-spectral imagery. These satellites typically operate in low…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Olga Kondrateva , Stefan Dietzel , Björn Scheuermann

Semantic communication (SemCom) demonstrates strong superiority over conventional bit-level accurate transmission, by only attempting to recover the essential semantic information of data. In this paper, in order to tackle the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Siyu Tong , Xiaoxue Yu , Rongpeng Li , Kun Lu , Zhifeng Zhao , Honggang 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 systems often use an end-to-end neural network to map input data into continuous symbols. These symbols, which are essentially neural network features, usually have fixed dimensions and heavy-tailed distributions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Hanju Yoo , Dongha Choi , Songkuk Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Robert W. Heath

In the evolving landscape of wireless communications, semantic communication (SemCom) has recently emerged as a 6G enabler that prioritizes the transmission of meaning and contextual relevance over conventional bit-centric metrics. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Hazem Barka , Georges Kaddoum , Mehdi Bennis , Md Sahabul Alam , Minh Au

Semantic maps are increasingly utilized in areas such as robotics, autonomous systems, and extended reality, motivating the investigation of efficient compression methods that preserve structured semantic information. This paper studies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Runyu Yang , Junqi Liao , Hyomin Choi , Fabien Racapé , Ivan V. Bajić

We study the collaborative image retrieval problem at the wireless edge, where multiple edge devices capture images of the same object from different angles and locations, which are then used jointly to retrieve similar images at the edge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Wing Fei Lo , Nitish Mital , Haotian Wu , Deniz Gündüz

We consider distributed image transmission over a noisy multiple access channel (MAC) using deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC). It is known that Shannon's separation theorem holds when transmitting independent sources over a MAC in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Selim F. Yilmaz , Can Karamanli , Deniz Gunduz

With the rapid development of autonomous driving and extended reality, efficient transmission of point clouds (PCs) has become increasingly important. In this context, we propose a novel channel-adaptive cross-modal generative semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Qianqian Yang , Ping Zhang , Merouane Debbah , Rahim Tafazolli

We study the following semi-deterministic setting of the joint source-channel coding problem: a deterministic source sequence (a.k.a. individual sequence) is transmitted via a memoryless channel, using delay-limited encoder and decoder,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Neri Merhav

Modern Earth Observation (EO) systems increasingly rely on high-resolution imagery to support critical applications such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, and land-use analysis. Although these applications benefit from…

The problem of goal-oriented semantic filtering and timely source coding in multiuser communication systems is considered here. We study a distributed monitoring system in which multiple information sources, each observing a physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Pouya Agheli , Nikolaos Pappas , Marios Kountouris

Significant progress has been made in wireless Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) using deep learning techniques. The latest DL-based image JSCC methods have demonstrated exceptional performance during transmission, while also avoiding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Hongjie Yuan , Weizhang Xu , Yuhuan Wang , Xingxing Wang

Many wireless vision applications, such as autonomous driving, require preservation of global structural information rather than only per-pixel fidelity. However, existing Deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) schemes mainly optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Omar Erak , Omar Alhussein , Fang Fang , Sami Muhaidat

Deep learning-based semantic communication has largely relied on analog or semi-digital transmission, which limits compatibility with modern digital communication infrastructures. Recent studies have employed vector quantization (VQ) to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Zian Meng , Qiang Li , Wenqian Tang , Mingdie Yan , Xiaohu Ge

This paper investigates distributed joint source-channel coding (JSCC) for correlated image semantic transmission over wireless channels. In this setup, correlated images at different transmitters are separately encoded and transmitted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao

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