The rate-semantic-perceptual curves of different image codecs. At a certain bitrate, lower semantic loss and lower perceptual loss means better performance.

The rate-semantic-perceptual curves of different image codecs. At a certain bitrate, lower semantic loss and lower perceptual loss means better performance.

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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...

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... can further illustrate the triple trade-off rate-semantic-perceptual of the proposed RL-ASC method and the baselines in Fig. 9. In particular, the semantic loss is defined as (1-mIoU), considering the semantic segmentation task. The perceptual loss is defined as the weighted addition of FID and KID values, where a lower value means better performance. As shown in Fig. 9, the proposed RL-ASC achieves lower semantic and perceptual loss compared to the baselines ...
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... the triple trade-off rate-semantic-perceptual of the proposed RL-ASC method and the baselines in Fig. 9. In particular, the semantic loss is defined as (1-mIoU), considering the semantic segmentation task. The perceptual loss is defined as the weighted addition of FID and KID values, where a lower value means better performance. As shown in Fig. 9, the proposed RL-ASC achieves lower semantic and perceptual loss compared to the baselines at equal bitrate by a large margin, which validates the effectiveness of the proposed method in semantic exchange and visual performance. Note that the deep learning based methods RL-ASC, [3], [32] outperform the classic engineered codecs, which ...