A team of South Korean researchers led by Dr. Dong Jin Ji has unveiled ConcreteSC, a novel approach to semantic communication that eliminates the need for large codebooks and improves image transmission reliability. By focusing on transmitting meaning rather than raw data, ConcreteSC offers a fully differentiable quantization process that can be trained end‑to‑end even under noisy channel conditions. Simulations show it outperforms traditional vector‑quantization methods in image quality and complexity. The researchers see the technology as a key enabler for next‑generation wireless systems such as 6G, smart factories, and AI‑powered healthcare devices.
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