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Semantic Communication (SC) is an emerging technology that has attracted much attention in the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication systems. However, few literature has fully considered the perceptual quality of the reconstructed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-04 Kexin Zhang , Lixin Li , Wensheng Lin , Yuna Yan , Wenchi Cheng , Zhu Han

Multi-node communication, which refers to the interaction among multiple devices, has attracted lots of attention in many Internet-of-Things (IoT) scenarios. However, its huge amounts of data flows and inflexibility for task extension have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Bingyan Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Yuxuan Shi , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wenjun Zhang

Deep learning based semantic communication (DeepSC) system has emerged as a promising paradigm for efficient wireless transmission. However, existing image DeepSC methods, frequently encounter challenges in balancing rate-distortion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Yinhuan Huang , Zhijin Qin

Semantic communications focus on the transmission of semantic features. In this letter, we consider a task-oriented multi-user semantic communication system for multimodal data transmission. Particularly, partial users transmit images while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Huiqiang Xie , Zhijin Qin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Vector Quantization (VQ) is a method for discretizing latent representations and has become a major part of the deep learning toolkit. It has been theoretically and empirically shown that discretization of representations leads to improved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Dianbo Liu , Alex Lamb , Xu Ji , Pascal Notsawo , Mike Mozer , Yoshua Bengio , Kenji Kawaguchi

Vector-Quantized Image Modeling (VQIM) is a fundamental research problem in image synthesis, which aims to represent an image with a discrete token sequence. Existing studies effectively address this problem by learning a discrete codebook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Baoquan Zhang , Huaibin Wang , Luo Chuyao , Xutao Li , Liang Guotao , Yunming Ye , Xiaochen Qi , Yao He

This paper investigates robust semantic communications over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) fading channels. Current semantic communications over MIMO channels mainly focus on channel adaptive encoding and decoding, which lacks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yiheng Duan , Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Meixia Tao

Millimeter wave (mmWave)-based orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) stands out as a suitable alternative for high-resolution sensing and high-speed data transmission. To meet communication and sensing requirements, many works…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Mamady Delamou , Ahmed Naeem , Huseyin Arslan , El Mehdi Amhoud

Semantic communications could improve the transmission efficiency significantly by exploring the semantic information. In this paper, we make an effort to recover the transmitted speech signals in the semantic communication systems, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Zhenzi Weng , Zhijin Qin

Compared with the current Shannon's Classical Information Theory (CIT) paradigm, semantic communication (SemCom) has recently attracted more attention, since it aims to transmit the meaning of information rather than bit-by-bit…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Bingxuan Xu , Rui Meng , Yue Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Chen Dong , Hao Sun

This paper proposes robust nonlinear transform coding (Robust-NTC), a generalizable digital joint source-channel coding (JSCC) framework that couples variational latent modeling with channel-adaptive transmission. Unlike learning-based JSCC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Jihun Park , Junyong Shin , Jinsung Park , Yo-Seb Jeon

Discrete representation has emerged as a powerful tool in task-oriented semantic communication (ToSC), offering compact, interpretable, and efficient representations well-suited for low-power edge intelligence scenarios. Its inherent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Anbang Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo , Chenyuan Feng , Hongyang Du , Haojin Li , Chen Sun , Haijun Zhang

Although semantic communication (SC) has shown its potential in efficiently transmitting multimodal data such as texts, speeches and images, SC for videos has focused primarily on pixel-level reconstruction. However, these SC systems may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jiangyuan Guo , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Jialong Xu , Bo Ai

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 (SC) is emerging as a pivotal innovation within the 6G framework, aimed at enabling more intelligent transmission. This development has led to numerous studies focused on designing advanced systems through powerful…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Guangyi Zhang , Kequan Zhou , Yunlong Cai , Qiyu Hu , Guanding Yu

In this paper, we propose a new wireless video communication scheme to achieve high-efficiency video transmission over noisy channels. It exploits the idea of model division multiple access (MDMA) and extracts common semantic features…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Zhicheng Bao , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu , Geng Liu

In this paper, the problem of semantic-based efficient image transmission is studied over the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). In the considered model, a vehicle shares massive amount of visual data perceived by its visual sensors to assist…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Qiang Pan , Haonan Tong , Jie Lv , Tao Luo , Zhilong Zhang , Changchuan Yin , Jianfeng Li

Image transmission for vehicle-to-vehicle collaborative perception in autonomous driving faces challenges including limited on-board terminal resources, time-varying wireless channel fading, and poor robustness under low signal-to-noise…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Ruixing Ren , Minjie Wei , Junhui Zhao

Multi-agent collaborative perception (CP) improves scene understanding by sharing information across connected agents such as autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and robots. Communication bandwidth, however, constrains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Dereje Shenkut , B. V. K Vijaya Kumar

Deep learning has brought significant improvements to the field of cross-modal representation learning. For tasks such as text-to-speech (TTS), voice conversion (VC), and automatic speech recognition (ASR), a cross-modal fine-grained…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Chunyu Qiang , Wang Geng , Yi Zhao , Ruibo Fu , Tao Wang , Cheng Gong , Tianrui Wang , Qiuyu Liu , Jiangyan Yi , Zhengqi Wen , Chen Zhang , Hao Che , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang , Jianhua Tao