The paper introduces HMS‑SCP, a hierarchical multi‑scale semantic‑aware cooperative perception framework for V2X communication. It uses a spatial importance predictor to select task‑relevant grid elements at multiple scales and maps them directly into complex‑valued symbols for joint source‑channel coding, achieving ultra‑low symbol rates and noise resilience. Experiments on OPV2V and DAIR‑V2X show that HMS‑SCP maintains high‑confidence far‑field detection with sub‑16 ms latency even under severe Rayleigh fading and extreme compression.
By Chun-Yeow Yeoh, Chee Keong Tan, Joanne Mun-Yee Lim, Heng-Siong Lim
arXiv:2608. 14603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative perception enables vehicles and infrastructure to exchange sensor data via Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication, extending sensing coverage beyond occlusions and mitigating blind spots.
By Chun-Yeow Yeoh, Chee Keong Tan, Joanne Mun-Yee Lim, Heng-Siong Lim
CauseCollab is a causal unified and modality‑agnostic network designed to improve collaborative perception across heterogeneous sensor modalities. It disentangles semantic factors from modality‑specific confounders using causal metric learning and employs a context‑guided Unified Converter to maintain cross‑modal semantic consistency. The approach requires only minimal adapter training when adding new modalities and achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on the OPV2V and DAIR‑V2X datasets, especially in scenarios with large modality gaps.
By Weize Li, Yang Li, Quan Yuan, Xiaoyuan Fu, Guiyang Luo, Jinglin Li
FedGenSC introduces a federated generative semantic communication system that uses a global generator with local discriminators, a semantic prototype bank, and SNR‑conditioned generation to address instability, semantic drift, and channel‑agnostic issues in GAN‑based federated learning. Experiments on the Europarl dataset over Rayleigh fading channels show that FedGenSC outperforms the FedDeepSC baseline under non‑IID data, achieving up to a 58.2% relative improvement in BLEU‑1 at 18 dB. Ablation studies confirm that each component independently contributes to the overall performance gains.
By Rita Abou Fares, Razan Al Kakoun, Maher Nouiehed, Hadi Sarieddeen
arXiv:2502.08221v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The growing demand for efficient semantic communication systems capable of managing diverse tasks and adapting to fluctuating channel conditions ha...
By Xiang Chen, Shuying Gan, Chenyuan Feng, Xijun Wang, Tony Q. S. Quek
The paper introduces TokCode, a token encoding framework that enhances robustness in generative semantic communication by restructuring redundancy in the semantic domain. TokCode leverages a lightweight adapter to transform a large language model into a token encoder, avoiding the need for a dedicated deep model. A channel-quality-aware distillation method (CADET) trains the adapter across diverse erasure rates, producing a reconfigurable low‑rank adapter that enables efficient reinforcement learning and achieves significant improvements in image similarity over existing receiver‑side recovery benchmarks.
By Jingzhi Hu, Ouya Wang, Geoffrey Ye Li
arXiv:2606. 31303v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The emerging techniques of semantic communications and edge computing in 6G networks necessitate a paradigm shift toward co-designed semantic-aware and adaptive resource allocation for short-packet transmissions.
By Huanyu Zhang, Yulin Hu, Xiaopeng Yuan, Aydin Sezgin, Anke Schmeink
The paper introduces a token‑oriented semantic communication framework that transmits only task‑relevant image latents instead of full token embeddings, reducing communication cost and improving interoperability. It leverages a spatial alignment between vision transformer patch tokens and learned image compression latents, enabling token‑level relevance estimation and selective transmission. Experiments on ImageNet demonstrate a superior rate–accuracy trade‑off compared to existing semantic communication methods and hand‑crafted codecs.
By Jiwoong Im, Minwoo Kim, Jaeho Lee, Yo-Seb Jeon, Yongjune Kim
The paper introduces a semantic‑aware multi‑level neural video codec designed for low‑latency, task‑oriented video transmission over unreliable channels. It builds on the real‑time DCVC‑RT codec by partitioning encoded representations into packets of varying semantic and feature importance, assigning them to priority streams, and employing an error‑resilient entropy model that removes inter‑packet dependencies. Experiments demonstrate that this framework improves robustness against packet erasures, achieving graceful degradation in less important regions while preserving task‑relevant visual content.
By Matin Mortaheb, Homa Esfahanizadeh, Jinfeng Du, Harish Viswanathan
The paper introduces SemISAC, a unified framework that integrates semantic communication and semantic sensing into a single dual‑function waveform. It employs a joint semantic encoder to extract task‑specific information for both communication and sensing, and uses an adaptive pilot configuration to balance channel estimation and sensing needs. In vehicular scenarios, SemISAC achieves segmentation accuracy comparable to dedicated semantic communication systems while outperforming conventional and semantic baselines in target recognition and range estimation.
By Muhammad Abubakar Rashid, Muhammad Hannan Akram, Haejoon Jung, Syed Ali Hassan
arXiv:2603.19308v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: In autonomous driving, multi-agent collaborative perception enhances sensing capabilities by enabling agents to share perceptual data. A key...
By Wentao Wang, Haoran Xu, Guang Tan
PEARL is a lightweight, prompt‑embedding framework designed for real‑time, anonymous, and heterogeneous collaborative perception. It uses two parallel, low‑rank visual prompt interpreters—sparse‑detection (LWSD) and dense, domain‑invariant (LWDDI)—to align features and select the appropriate interpreter for newly joining agents without needing their configurations. Experiments on simulated and real datasets show that PEARL improves average precision by 8.2% over random selection, runs in 1.67 ms, and reduces communication cost by up to 34.7× while outperforming state‑of‑the‑art offline methods by 5.6% AP.
By Armin Maleki, Hayder Radha