Tongxin xuebao (Mar 2023)
Deep image semantic communication model for 6G
Abstract
Current semantic communication models still have some parts that can be improved in processing image data, including effective image semantic codec, efficient semantic model training, and accurate image semantic evaluation.Hence, a deep image semantic communication (DeepISC) model was proposed.The vision transformer-based autoencoder (ViTA) network was used to achieve high-quality image semantic encoding and decoding.Then, an autoencoder realized channel codec to ensure the transmission of semantics on the channel.Furthermore, the discriminator network (DSN) and ViTA’s dual network architecture were used to jointly train, thus improving the semantic accuracy of the reconstructed image.Finally, for different downstream vision tasks, different evaluation indicators of image semantics were presented.Simulation results show that compared with other schemes, DeepISC can more effectively restore the semantic features of the transmitted image, so that the reconstructed image can show the same or similar semantic results as the original image in various downstream tasks.
