Recently, semantic communication has been widely applied in wireless image transmission systems as it can prioritize the preservation of meaningful semantic information in images over the accuracy of transmitted symbols, leading to improved communication efficiency. However, existing semantic communication approaches still face limitations in achieving considerable inference performance in downstream AI tasks like image recognition, or balancing the inference performance with the quality of the reconstructed image at the receiver. Therefore, this paper proposes a contrastive learning (CL)-based semantic communication approach to overcome these limitations. Specifically, we regard the image corruption during transmission as a form of data augmentation in CL and leverage CL to reduce the semantic distance between the original and the corrupted reconstruction while maintaining the semantic distance among irrelevant images for better discrimination in downstream tasks. Moreover, we design a two-stage training procedure and the corresponding loss functions for jointly optimizing the semantic encoder and decoder to achieve a good trade-off between the performance of image recognition in the downstream task and reconstructed quality. Simulations are finally conducted to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over the competitive approaches. In particular, the proposed method can achieve up to 56% accuracy gain on the CIFAR10 dataset when the bandwidth compression ratio is 1/48.


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    Titel :

    Contrastive Learning based Semantic Communication for Wireless Image Transmission


    Beteiligte:
    Tang, Shunpu (Autor:in) / Yang, Qianqian (Autor:in) / Fan, Lisheng (Autor:in) / Lei, Xianfu (Autor:in) / Deng, Yansha (Autor:in) / Nallanathan, Arumugam (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    10.10.2023


    Format / Umfang :

    2619781 byte





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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