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While semantic communication (SemCom) improves transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information, it also raises critical privacy concerns. Many existing secure SemCom approaches rely on restrictive or impractical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang , Shuo Shao , Shunpu Tang , Zhiguo Shi , Shui Yu

Semantic communication (SC) offers promising advancements in data transmission efficiency and reliability by focusing on delivering true meaning rather than solely binary bits of messages. However, privacy concerns in SC might become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xuesong Liu , Yao Sun , Runze Cheng , Le Xia , Hanaa Abumarshoud , Lei Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran

Semantic communications seeks to transfer information from a source while conveying a desired meaning to its destination. We model the transmitter-receiver functionalities as an autoencoder followed by a task classifier that evaluates the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yalin E. Sagduyu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus , Aylin Yener

Recently proliferated deep learning-based semantic communications (DLSC) focus on how transmitted symbols efficiently convey a desired meaning to the destination. However, the sensitivity of neural models and the openness of wireless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yankai Rong , Guoshun Nan , Minwei Zhang , Sihan Chen , Songtao Wang , Xuefei Zhang , Nan Ma , Shixun Gong , Zhaohui Yang , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao , Tony Q. S. Quek

In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), generative linguistic steganography has become a prevalent technique for hiding information within model-generated texts. However, traditional steganography methods struggle to effectively align…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Minhao Bai , Jinshuai Yang , Kaiyi Pang , Yongfeng Huang , Yue Gao

We propose a new proof method for direct coding theorems for wiretap channels where the eavesdropper has access to a quantum version of the transmitted signal on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space and the legitimate parties communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelaković , Janis Nötzel , Sławomir Stańczak

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising paradigm for future wireless networks by prioritizing task-relevant meaning over raw data delivery, thereby reducing communication overhead and improving efficiency. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Weixuan Chen , Qianqian Yang , Yuanyuan Jia , Junyu Pan , Shuo Shao , Jincheng Dai , Meixia Tao , Ping Zhang

Secure covert communication in hostile environments requires simultaneously achieving invisibility, provable security guarantees, and robustness against informed adversaries. This paper presents a novel hybrid steganographic framework that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Obinna Omego , Michal Bosy

Semantic communication is expected to be one of the cores of next-generation AI-based communications. One of the possibilities offered by semantic communication is the capability to regenerate, at the destination side, images or videos…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Eleonora Grassucci , Sergio Barbarossa , Danilo Comminiello

Semantic communications have been envisioned as a potential technique that goes beyond Shannon paradigm. Unlike modern communications that provide bit-level security, the eaves-dropping of semantic communications poses a significant risk of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yongkang Li , Zheng Shi , Han Hu , Yaru Fu , Hong Wang , Hongjiang Lei

Semantic communication (SemCom) improves transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information. However, transmitting semantic-rich data over insecure channels introduces privacy risks. This paper proposes a novel SemCom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Weixuan Chen , Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , 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

Semantic communication (SemCom) emerges as a transformative paradigm for traffic-intensive visual data transmission, shifting focus from raw data to meaningful content transmission and relieving the increasing pressure on communication…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Runze Cheng , Yao Sun , Ahmad Taha , Xuesong Liu , David Flynn , Muhammad Ali Imran

Semantic communications are expected to improve the transmission efficiency in Internet of Things (IoT) networks. However, the distributed nature of networks and heterogeneity of devices challenge the secure utilization of semantic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Weihao Zeng , Xinyu Xu , Qianyun Zhang , Jiting Shi , Zhenyu Guan , Shufeng Li , Zhijin Qin

In this paper, a novel covert semantic communication framework is investigated. Within this framework, a server extracts and transmits the semantic information, i.e., the meaning of image data, to a user over several time slots. An attacker…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenjing Zhang , Ye Hu , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Mingzhe Chen

This paper proposes a novel adaptive dual-path framework for covert semantic communication (SemCom), which integrates covert information transmission with task-oriented semantic coding. Unlike conventional covert communication methods that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Xi Yu , Weicai Li , Lin Yin , Tiejun Lv

Digital and analog semantic communications (SemCom) face inherent limitations such as data security concerns in analog SemCom, as well as leveling-off and cliff-edge effects in digital SemCom. In order to overcome these challenges, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Zhu Han , Khaled B. Letaief

Semantic communication allows the receiver to know the intention instead of the bit information itself, which is an emerging technique to support real-time human-machine and machine-to-machine interactions for future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Gaolei Li , Yang Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Holographic video communication is considered a paradigm shift in visual communications, becoming increasingly popular for its ability to offer immersive experiences. This article provides an overview of holographic video communication and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Jingkai Ying , Zhiyuan Qi , Yulong Feng , Zhijin Qin , Zhu Han , Rahim Tafazolli , Yonina C. Eldar

Semantic communication (SemCom) enhances transmission efficiency by sending only task-relevant information compared to traditional methods. However, transmitting semantic-rich data over insecure or public channels poses security and privacy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Weixuan Chen , Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang