Generative Semantic Communication: How Generative Models Enhance Semantic Communications

News

10/03  The Special Session has been scheduled for  Wed, 17 Apr, 08:30 - 10:30 (UTC +9) Location: Room 205B, Coex, Seoul, Korea!

09/03 The list of accepted papers for the special session is available! Read it below!

07/09 The Special Session Overview Paper is now available on ArXiv! Read it on ArXiv.

About


Semantic communication is poised to become a fundamental aspect of future AI-driven communications. It holds the potential to regenerate images or videos with semantic equivalence to the transmitted ones at the receiving end, without solely relying on retrieving the exact sequence of bits that were transmitted. However, existing solutions are yet to develop the capacity to construct elaborate scenes based on the partial information received. Undoubtedly, there is a pressing need to strike a balance between the effectiveness of generation methods and the complexity of transmitted information, while potentially considering the goal of communication. To this end, deep generative models (DGM) such as diffusion and score-based models have been starting to show great potential in semantic communication frameworks, revealing the ability to generate semantically consistent content at the receiver side. Indeed, DGMs are extremely powerful in solving image and audio inverse problems and in generating multimedia content even from information that has been heavily degraded from the transmission channel. Therefore, due to such abilities, DGMs can significantly enhance next-generation semantic communication frameworks.

The aim of this special session is to bring together leading researchers in the fields of generative modeling and wireless communication so as to provide advances in generative learning methods in semantic communication that can empower science and technology for humankind.

Topics of Interest



Paper submission


Five-page papers do not have to be submitted through ICASSP 2024 submission system!


To submit a paper to the special session, follow these steps:

1. Use the following URL: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cmsworkshops.com/ICASSP2024/Papers/Submission.asp?SessionType%3DSpecial&source=gmail-imap&ust=1692904565000000&usg=AOvVaw2LT1RNWxj6ZO9voDQRIQGr.

2. From the "Special Session Name" menu, select:

20.8: Generative Semantic Communication: How Generative Models Enhance Semantic Communications.

3. Continue to Author Entry.


If you have already submitted your paper through the regular paper submission, please email at: papers@2024.ieeeicassp.org. 


All the submissions will go through peer review. More details on paper submission can be found on ICASSP 2024 Paper Submission.

🔴The deadline for paper submission is September 6, 2023.

List of Accepted Papers


DIFFUSION-BASED SPEECH ENHANCEMENT WITH JOINT GENERATIVE AND PREDICTIVE DECODERS

Hao Shi, Kazuki Shimada, Masato Hirano, Takashi Shibuya, Yuichiro Koyama, Zhi Zhong, Shusuke Takahashi, Tatsuya Kawahara, Yuki Mitsufuji

Kyoto University, Japan

Sony Group Corporation, Japan


ENHANCING SEMANTIC COMMUNICATION WITH DEEP GENERATIVE MODELS: AN OVERVIEW

Eleonora Grassucci, Yuki Mitsufuji, Ping Zhang, Danilo Comminiello

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Sony Group Corporation, Japan

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China


LANGUAGE-ORIENTED COMMUNICATION WITH SEMANTIC CODING AND KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION FOR TEXT-TO-IMAGE GENERATION

Hyelin Nam, Jihong Park, Jinho Choi, Mehdi Bennis, Seong-Lyun Kim

Yonsei University, Korea

Deakin University, Australia

University of Oulu, Finland


DIFFSC: SEMANTIC COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK WITH ENHANCED DENOISING THROUGH DIFFUSION PROBABILISTIC MODELS

Zeyu Jiang, Xiaohong Liu, Guoxing Yang, Weizhi Li, Aini Li, Guangyu Wang

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

University College London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Peng Cheng Laboratory, China


DIFFUSION MODELS FOR AUDIO SEMANTIC COMMUNICATION

Eleonora Grassucci, Christian Marinoni, Andrea Rodriguez, Danilo Comminiello

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy


SG2SC: A GENERATIVE SEMANTIC COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK FOR SCENE UNDERSTANDING-ORIENTED IMAGE TRANSMISSION

Minxi Yang, Dahua Gao, Feng Xie, Jiaxuan Li, Xiaodan Song, Guangzhou, Guangming Shi

School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, China

Institute of Technology, Xidian University, China


SEMANTIC-PRESERVING IMAGE CODING BASED ON CONDITIONAL DIFFUSION MODELS

Francesco Pezone, Osman Musa, Giuseppe Caire, Sergio Barbarossa

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Organizers


Eleonora Grassucci - Sapienza University of Rome - eleonora.grassucci@uniroma1.it

Yuki Mitsufuji - Sony Group Corporation - yuhki.mitsufuji@sony.com

Ping Zhang - Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications - pzhang@bupt.edu.cn