Efficient and Robust Semantic Image Communication via Stable Cascade
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| author | Khalid, Bilal Freire, Pedro Turitsyn, Sergei K. Prilepsky, Jaroslaw E. |
| author_facet | Khalid, Bilal Freire, Pedro Turitsyn, Sergei K. Prilepsky, Jaroslaw E. |
| contents | Diffusion Model (DM) based Semantic Image Communication (SIC) systems face significant challenges, such as slow inference speed and generation randomness, that limit their reliability and practicality. To overcome these issues, we propose a novel SIC framework inspired by Stable Cascade, where extremely compact latent image embeddings are used as conditioning to the diffusion process. Our approach drastically reduces the data transmission overhead, compressing the transmitted embedding to just 0.29% of the original image size. It outperforms three benchmark approaches - the diffusion SIC model conditioned on segmentation maps (GESCO), the recent Stable Diffusion (SD)-based SIC framework (Img2Img-SC), and the conventional JPEG2000 + LDPC coding - by achieving superior reconstruction quality under noisy channel conditions, as validated across multiple metrics. Notably, it also delivers significant computational efficiency, enabling over 3x faster reconstruction for 512 x 512 images and more than 16x faster for 1024 x 1024 images as compared to the approach adopted in Img2Img-SC. |
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| spellingShingle | Efficient and Robust Semantic Image Communication via Stable Cascade Khalid, Bilal Freire, Pedro Turitsyn, Sergei K. Prilepsky, Jaroslaw E. Image and Video Processing Diffusion Model (DM) based Semantic Image Communication (SIC) systems face significant challenges, such as slow inference speed and generation randomness, that limit their reliability and practicality. To overcome these issues, we propose a novel SIC framework inspired by Stable Cascade, where extremely compact latent image embeddings are used as conditioning to the diffusion process. Our approach drastically reduces the data transmission overhead, compressing the transmitted embedding to just 0.29% of the original image size. It outperforms three benchmark approaches - the diffusion SIC model conditioned on segmentation maps (GESCO), the recent Stable Diffusion (SD)-based SIC framework (Img2Img-SC), and the conventional JPEG2000 + LDPC coding - by achieving superior reconstruction quality under noisy channel conditions, as validated across multiple metrics. Notably, it also delivers significant computational efficiency, enabling over 3x faster reconstruction for 512 x 512 images and more than 16x faster for 1024 x 1024 images as compared to the approach adopted in Img2Img-SC. |
| title | Efficient and Robust Semantic Image Communication via Stable Cascade |
| topic | Image and Video Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17416 |