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Visual navigation for autonomous agents is a core task in the fields of computer vision and robotics. Learning-based methods, such as deep reinforcement learning, have the potential to outperform the classical solutions developed for this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zachary Seymour , Kowshik Thopalli , Niluthpol Mithun , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Semantic communication (SemCom) has recently been considered a promising solution to guarantee high resource utilization and transmission reliability for future wireless networks. Nevertheless, the unique demand for background knowledge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Le Xia , Yao Sun , Dusit Niyato , Xiaoqian Li , Muhammad Ali Imran

Semantic segmentation is applied extensively in autonomous driving and intelligent transportation with methods that highly demand spatial and semantic information. Here, an STDC-MA network is proposed to meet these demands. First, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Xiaochun Lei , Linjun Lu , Zetao Jiang , Zhaoting Gong , Chang Lu , Jiaming Liang

Procedural activity assistants potentially support humans in a variety of settings, from our daily lives, e.g., cooking or assembling flat-pack furniture, to professional situations, e.g., manufacturing or biological experiments. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kimihiro Hasegawa , Wiradee Imrattanatrai , Masaki Asada , Ken Fukuda , Teruko Mitamura

We present Semantic Fusion (SF), a formal framework for decentralized semantic coordination in multi-agent systems. SF allows agents to operate over scoped views of shared memory, propose structured updates, and maintain global coherence…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sofiya Zaichyk

Agent technology is a software paradigm that permits to implement large and complex distributed applications. In order to assist the development of multi-agent systems, agent-oriented methodologies (AOM) have been created in the last years…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Mohamed Garoui , Belhassen Mazigh , Béchir El Ayeb , Abderrafiaa Koukam

Underwater wireless communications face significant challenges due to propagation constraints, limiting the effectiveness of traditional radio and optical technologies. Long-range acoustic communications support distances up to a few…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-01 João Pedro Loureiro , Patrícia Delgado , Tomás Feliciano Ribeiro , Filipe B. Teixeira , Rui Campos

With the booming development of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), semantic communication (SemCom) has emerged as a new paradigm for reliable and efficient communication. This paper considers a multi-user downlink SemCom system,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Jiayi Lu , Wanting Yang , Zehui Xiong , Rahim Tafazolli , Tony Q. S. Quek , Mérouane Debbah , Dong In Kim

In multi-user semantic communication, language mismatche poses a significant challenge when independently trained agents interact. We present a novel semantic equalization algorithm that enables communication between agents with different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Tomás Hüttebräucker , Simone Fiorellino , Mohamed Sana , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Semantic communication (SemCom) aims to convey the intended meaning of messages rather than merely transmitting bits, thereby offering greater efficiency and robustness, particularly in resource-constrained or noisy environments. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chengyang Liang , Dong Li

Texts on the intelligent transportation scene include mass information. Fully harnessing this information is one of the critical drivers for advancing intelligent transportation. Unlike the general scene, detecting text in transportation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Xu Han , Junyu Gao , Chuang Yang , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

Recently, semantic communication (SemCom) has shown great potential in significant resource savings and efficient information exchanges, thus naturally introducing a novel and practical cellular network paradigm where two modes of SemCom…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Le Xia , Yao Sun , Dusit Niyato , Lan Zhang , Muhammad Ali Imran

In existing semantic communication systems for image transmission, some images are generally reconstructed with considerably low quality. As a result, the reliable transmission of each image cannot be guaranteed, bringing significant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

Efficient information exchange and reliable contextual reasoning are essential for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks. Conventional communication schemes often incur significant transmission overhead and latency, while existing trajectory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Lin Zhu , Kezhi Wang , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang

We propose a framework to learn semantics from raw audio signals using two types of representations, encoding contextual and phonetic information respectively. Specifically, we introduce a speech-to-unit processing pipeline that captures…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-05 Jaeyeon Kim , Injune Hwang , Kyogu Lee

Scene understanding is paramount in robotics, self-navigation, augmented reality, and many other fields. To fully accomplish this task, an autonomous agent has to infer the 3D structure of the sensed scene (to know where it looks at) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Pier Luigi Dovesi , Matteo Poggi , Lorenzo Andraghetti , Miquel Martí , Hedvig Kjellström , Alessandro Pieropan , Stefano Mattoccia

Visual Semantic Navigation (VSN) is a fundamental problem in robotics, where an agent must navigate toward a target object in an unknown environment, mainly using visual information. Most state-of-the-art VSN models are trained in…

Two factors have proven to be very important to the performance of semantic segmentation models: global context and multi-level semantics. However, generating features that capture both factors always leads to high computational complexity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Qi Song , Kangfu Mei , Rui Huang

Semantic communication enables intelligent agents to extract meaning (or semantics) of information via interaction, to carry out collaborative tasks. In this paper, we study semantic communication from a topological space perspective, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Qiyang Zhao , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah , Daniel Benevides da Costa

Accurately predicting the possible behaviors of traffic participants is an essential capability for autonomous vehicles. Since autonomous vehicles need to navigate in dynamically changing environments, they are expected to make accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yeping Hu , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka