Title of Talk:

Multimodal Semantic Communications

Location:

Library Science Hall, Shenyang Ligong University, Shenyang, China
Time:

December 28, 2024, Saturday, 15:20-15:50

Abstract:
With the developments of wireless communication systems, the system capacity is gradually approaching to the Shannon limit. Existing communication systems primarily focus on how to accurately and effectively transmit symbols from the transmitter to the receiver and usually take bit-error rate or symbol-error rate as the performance metrics. Different from that, semantic communication aims to realize the successful semantic information exchange rather than receive the transmitted bit sequences or symbols accurately, which can improve the efficiency and robustness of communication systems. In this talk, the latest research of multimodal semantic communications will be introduced, including the basic framework of multimodal semantic communication, joint multimodal semantic-channel coding and semantic-aware coding and modulation joint optimization technology.

Bio:
Dr. Zhijin Qin is currently an Associate Professor at Tsinghua University. She was with Queen Mary University of London and Lancaster University as a Lecturer and Imperial College London as a research associate from 2016 to 2022. Her research interest is semantic communications. She is serving as the guest editor of IEEE JSAC special issues on semantic communications, area editor of IEEE JSAC Series, and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Networking. She has also served as the co-chair of the 1st workshop on semantic communications at IEEE ICC 2022 and the symposium co-chair for various flagship conferences. She won the 2017 IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award, 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, 2021 IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Signal Processing for Communications Committee Early Achievement Award, and 2022 IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize.