articleIEEE Journal on Selected Areas in CommunicationsNov 16, 2022Closed access

Toward Semantic Communications: Deep Learning-Based Image Semantic Coding

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Tsinghua University

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Abstract

Semantic communications has received growing interest since it can remarkably reduce the amount of data to be transmitted without missing critical information. Most existing works explore the semantic encoding and transmission for text and apply techniques in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to interpret the meaning of the text. In this paper, we conceive the semantic communications for image data that is much more richer in semantics and bandwidth sensitive. We propose an reinforcement learning based adaptive semantic coding (RL-ASC) approach that encodes images beyond pixel level. Firstly, we define the semantic concept of image data that includes the category, spatial arrangement, and visual feature as the…

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  • Computer science
  • Semantic compression
  • Semantic similarity
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Semantic computing
  • Encoder
  • Natural language processing
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)
UN Sustainable Development Goals
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