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Semantic communications, aiming at ensuring the successful delivery of the meaning of information, are expected to be one of the potential techniques for the next generation communications. However, the knowledge forming and synchronizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yuan Zheng , Fengyu Wang , Wenjun Xu , Miao Pan , Ping Zhang

Semantic segmentation involves assigning a specific category to each pixel in an image. While Vision Transformer-based models have made significant progress, current semantic segmentation methods often struggle with precise predictions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Guoan Xu , Wenfeng Huang , Tao Wu , Ligeng Chen , Wenjing Jia , Guangwei Gao , Xiatian Zhu , Stuart Perry

Sensing and communication are fundamental enablers of next-generation networks. While communication technologies have advanced significantly, sensing remains limited to conventional parameter estimation and is far from fully explored.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Xiaoqi Zhang , J. Andrew Zhang , Chang Liu , Weijie Yuan , Geoffrey Ye Li , Moeness G. Amin

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

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

Semantic communication is a new paradigm that exploits deep learning models to enable end-to-end communications processes, and recent studies have shown that it can achieve better noise resiliency compared with traditional communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Wenyu Zhang , Kaiyuan Bai , Sherali Zeadally , Haijun Zhang , Hua Shao , Hui Ma , Victor C. M. Leung

Semantic communication (SemCom) is an emerging technology that extracts useful meaning from data and sends only relevant semantic information. Thus, it has the great potential to improve the spectrum efficiency of conventional wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Zeyang Hu , Tianyu Liu , Changsheng You , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen

Scene text image contains two levels of contents: visual texture and semantic information. Although the previous scene text recognition methods have made great progress over the past few years, the research on mining semantic information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Deli Yu , Xuan Li , Chengquan Zhang , Junyu Han , Jingtuo Liu , Errui Ding

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

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

Semantic communications aim to enhance transmission efficiency by jointly optimizing source coding, channel coding, and modulation. While prior research has demonstrated promising performance in simulations, real-world implementations often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Hanju Yoo , Dongha Choi , Yonghwi Kim , Yoontae Kim , Songkuk Kim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Robert W. Heath

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence have introduced groundbreaking approaches to innovating next-generation semantic communication, which prioritizes conveying the meaning of a message rather than merely transmitting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Achintha Wijesinghe , Weiwei Wang , Suchinthaka Wanninayaka , Songyang Zhang , Zhi Ding

To support cooperative perception (CP) of networked mobile agents in dynamic scenarios, the efficient and robust transmission of sensory data is a critical challenge. Deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC) has demonstrated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Sijiang Li , Rongqing Zhang , Xiang Cheng , Jian Tang

Semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a promising technique for the next-generation communication systems, in which the generation at the receiver side is allowed with semantic features' recovery. However, the majority of existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Chengyang Liang , Dong Li

Semantic communication enhances transmission efficiency by conveying semantic information rather than raw input symbol sequences. Task-oriented semantic communication is a variant that tries to retains only task-specific information, thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Xuesong Wang , Mo Li , Xingyan Shi , Zhaoqian Liu , Shenghao Yang

To reduce network traffic and support environments with limited resources, a method for transmitting images with minimal transmission data is required. Several machine learning-based image compression methods, which compress the data size…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Eri Hosonuma , Taku Yamazaki , Takumi Miyoshi , Akihito Taya , Yuuki Nishiyama , Kaoru Sezaki

Wireless communication has achieved great success in the past several decades. The challenge is of improving bandwidth with limited spectrum and power consumption, which however has gradually become a bottleneck with evolution going on. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Guangming Shi , Dahua Gao , Xiaodan Song , Jingxuan Chai , Minxi Yang , Xuemei Xie , Leida Li , Xuyang Li

Semantic communication transmits the extracted features of information rather than raw data, significantly reducing redundancy, which is crucial for addressing spectrum and energy challenges in 6G networks. In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Wenjun Zhang , Qiong Wu , Pingyi Fan , Kezhi Wang , Nan Cheng , Wen Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

Task-oriented semantic communication has emerged as a fundamental approach for enhancing performance in various communication scenarios. While recent advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), such as Large Language Models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Baoxia Du , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Ruidong Li

We consider a multi-user semantic communications system in which agents (transmitters and receivers) interact through the exchange of semantic messages to convey meanings. In this context, languages are instrumental in structuring the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Mohamed Sana , Emilio Calvanese Strinati