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Generative foundation models can revolutionize the design of semantic communication (SemCom) systems allowing high fidelity exchange of semantic information at ultra low rates. In this work, a generative SemCom framework with pretrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Chunmei Xu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli , Jiangzhou Wang

Increasing demands for massive data transmission pose significant challenges to communication systems. Compared with traditional communication systems that focus on the accurate reconstruction of bit sequences, SemComs, which aim to deliver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Fengyu Wang , Yuan Zheng , Wenjun Xu , Junxiao Liang , Ping Zhang , Zhu Han

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

This article studies the problem of image segmentation-based semantic communication in autonomous driving. In real traffic scenes, detecting the key objects (e.g., vehicles, pedestrians and obstacles) is more crucial than that of other…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Jie Lv , Haonan Tong , Qiang Pan , Zhilong Zhang , Xinxin He , Tao Luo , Changchuan Yin

This work presents a novel semantic transmission framework in wireless networks, leveraging the joint processing technique. Our framework enables multiple cooperating base stations to efficiently transmit semantic information to multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Xumin Pu , Tiantian Lei , Wanli Wen , Qianbin Chen

In recent years, semantic segmentation has flourished in various applications. However, the high computational cost remains a significant challenge that hinders its further adoption. The filter pruning method for structured network slimming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Dongyue Wu , Zilin Guo , Li Yu , Nong Sang , Changxin Gao

Recent advancements in diffusion models have made a significant breakthrough in generative modeling. The combination of the generative model and semantic communication (SemCom) enables high-fidelity semantic information exchange at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Chunmei Xu , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Semantic communications are expected to be an innovative solution to the emerging intelligent applications in the era of connected intelligence. In this paper, a novel scalable multitask semantic communication system with feature importance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Jiangjing Hu , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Hui Gao , Ping Zhang

Semantic communication (SemCom) has received considerable attention for its ability to reduce data transmission size while maintaining task performance. However, existing works mainly focus on analog SemCom with simple channel models, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Chuanhong Liu , Caili Guo , Yang Yang , Wanli Ni , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this work we explore possibilities for coding when information worlds have different (semantic) values. We introduce a loss function that expresses the overall performance of a coding scheme for discrete channels and exchange the usual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Marcelo Firer , Luciano Panek , Laura Rifo

Semantic communication is a new paradigm that aims at providing more efficient communication for the next-generation wireless network. It focuses on transmitting extracted, meaningful information instead of the raw data. However, deep…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Yang Li , Xinyu Zhou , Jun Zhao

Research in semantic communication has garnered considerable attention, particularly in the area of image transmission, where joint source-channel coding (JSCC)-based neural network (NN) modules are frequently employed. However, these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Yoon Huh , Bumjun Kim , Wan Choi

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

Semantic communications, a promising approach for agent-human and agent-agent interactions, typically operate at a feature level, lacking true semantic understanding. This paper explores understanding-level semantic communications (ULSC),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Shuaishuai Guo , Yanhu Wang , Jia Ye , Anbang Zhang , Kun Xu

Semantic communication (SemCom) significantly reduces redundant data and improves transmission efficiency by extracting the latent features of information. However, most of the conventional deep learning-based SemCom systems focus on analog…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Ming Lyu , Hao Chen , Dan Wang , Chen Qiu , Guangyin Feng , Nan Ma , Xiaodong Xu

Unsupervised image semantic segmentation(UISS) aims to match low-level visual features with semantic-level representations without outer supervision. In this paper, we address the critical properties from the view of feature alignments and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Daoan Zhang , Chenming Li , Haoquan Li , Wenjian Huang , Lingyun Huang , Jianguo Zhang

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

Task-oriented semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than exact messages. Deep learning (DL)-based semantic communication can effectively cultivate the essential semantic knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Run Gu , Wei Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Dusit Niyato , Aylin Yener

In high-mobility scenarios with time-frequency doubly-selective channels, existing semantic communication systems suffer significant performance degradation. To address this issue, we propose a semantic communication framework that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Yu Zhang , Jiarui Yan , Yue Liu , Tenglun Ke , Yimeng Wang , Zhijin Qin

Deep learning draws heavily on the latest progress in semantic communications. The present paper aims to examine the security aspect of this cutting-edge technique from a novel shuffling perspective. Our goal is to improve upon the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Fupei Chen , Liyao Xiang , Haoxiang Sun , Hei Victor Cheng , Kaiming Shen