Multi-hop Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding with Deep Hash Distillation for Semantically Aligned Image Recovery

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Main Authors: Bergström, Didrik, Gündüz, Deniz, Günlü, Onur
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author Bergström, Didrik
Gündüz, Deniz
Günlü, Onur
author_facet Bergström, Didrik
Gündüz, Deniz
Günlü, Onur
contents We consider image transmission via deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) over multi-hop additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels by training a DeepJSCC encoder-decoder pair with a pre-trained deep hash distillation (DHD) module to semantically cluster images, facilitating security-oriented applications through enhanced semantic consistency and improving the perceptual reconstruction quality. We train the DeepJSCC module to both reduce mean square error (MSE) and minimize cosine distance between DHD hashes of source and reconstructed images. Significantly improved perceptual quality as a result of semantic alignment is illustrated for different multi-hop settings, for which classical DeepJSCC may suffer from noise accumulation, measured by the learned perceptual image patch similarity (LPIPS) metric.
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spellingShingle Multi-hop Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding with Deep Hash Distillation for Semantically Aligned Image Recovery
Bergström, Didrik
Gündüz, Deniz
Günlü, Onur
Information Theory
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
We consider image transmission via deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) over multi-hop additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels by training a DeepJSCC encoder-decoder pair with a pre-trained deep hash distillation (DHD) module to semantically cluster images, facilitating security-oriented applications through enhanced semantic consistency and improving the perceptual reconstruction quality. We train the DeepJSCC module to both reduce mean square error (MSE) and minimize cosine distance between DHD hashes of source and reconstructed images. Significantly improved perceptual quality as a result of semantic alignment is illustrated for different multi-hop settings, for which classical DeepJSCC may suffer from noise accumulation, measured by the learned perceptual image patch similarity (LPIPS) metric.
title Multi-hop Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding with Deep Hash Distillation for Semantically Aligned Image Recovery
topic Information Theory
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06868