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arxiv: 2605.19397 · v1 · pith:R4NJQUHRnew · submitted 2026-05-19 · 📡 eess.IV · cs.MM

Perception-Aware Video Semantic Communication

Yinhuan Huang , Zhijin Qin This is my paper

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keywords video semantic communicationperception-aware transmissionwireless videospatio-temporal featuresreal-time decodingbandwidth reductionLPIPSDISTS
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The pith

A perception-aware semantic communication system encodes video features for wireless transmission to cut bandwidth use while preserving human visual quality.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces PVSC as a framework that replaces traditional separated source-channel coding with direct transmission of compact spatio-temporal features. It removes the need for explicit motion vectors and adds side-information formatting plus reference-buffer management to support stable decoding. Experiments show the approach maintains perceptual quality metrics across different datasets, resolutions, and channel conditions while using substantially less bandwidth than conventional baselines. This matters because rising ultra-high-resolution and immersive video traffic is pushing wireless links toward their limits, where pixel-exact methods often waste resources or fail under latency constraints. The design also allows a single model to adapt to varying bandwidth without retraining.

Core claim

PVSC generates channel-robust symbol streams through spatio-temporal feature coding without transmitting motion vectors, then uses specified side-information formatting, reference-buffer management, and lightweight rate control to achieve stable receiver reconstruction and bandwidth-adaptive inference from one learned model.

What carries the argument

The PVSC framework that combines perception-aware spatio-temporal feature coding with explicit side-information formatting and reference-buffer management to produce compact symbol streams.

If this is right

  • PVSC delivers comparable or better LPIPS and DISTS scores while using up to 75 percent and 87 percent less bandwidth than an engineered VTM plus 5G LDPC baseline.
  • The same model supports real-time inference on a single consumer GPU across varied resolutions and group-of-pictures lengths.
  • Performance remains superior under multiple channel conditions without requiring separate models for each bandwidth level.
  • Elimination of explicit motion-vector transmission reduces overhead and improves robustness in short-blocklength wireless settings.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The approach could extend naturally to live streaming of 360-degree or volumetric video where motion compensation is especially costly.
  • If the rate-control logic generalizes, it may reduce the need for frequent model updates in deployed wireless video systems.
  • Similar feature-based semantic coding might apply to audio or sensor data streams facing the same bandwidth-latency trade-offs.

Load-bearing premise

The single learned model with the chosen side-information formatting, reference-buffer rules, and rate control will maintain stable reconstruction quality and correct bandwidth adaptation under every real-world wireless channel and every type of video content.

What would settle it

A controlled test on rapidly fading channels or high-motion video sequences that shows either a sharp rise in required bandwidth to meet target LPIPS/DISTS scores or visible reconstruction artifacts at the receiver.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.19397 by Yinhuan Huang, Zhijin Qin.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: For bandwidth-limited transmission, pixel-level distortion optimization alone, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: System model of the proposed PVSC. AE, AD, Q, PNG, and RM denote arithmetic encoding, arithmetic decoding, quantization, portable network graphics coding, and rate matching, respectively. PVSC models implicit spatio-temporal dependencies, where F tx/rx t−1 is used to generate C tx/rx e,t−1 and C tx/rx f,t−1 . C tx/rx e,t−1 , C tx/rx f,t−1 , and C tx/rx s,t−1 denote the temporal contexts used at time t for … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: (a) Transmitter-side buffer update branch for local buffer updating and temporal-context generation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: (a) Feature coding with ViT/contextual ViT blocks for spatial-temporal modeling and FC layers for complex [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Transmission and reception pipeline. Fext(·), and the generator G(·), which provides lightweight rate adaptation and improves the flexibility of PVSC [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Rate-perception-distortion performance on 1080p/2K video datasets over different channels. The channel bandwidth [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Visual comparison of different methods over an AWGN channel (SNR = 6 dB). Zoom in for a better view. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_7.png] view at source ↗
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Ultra-high-resolution streaming and emerging immersive services are driving rapidly increasing wireless video traffic. However, perceptually pleasing video transmission over bandwidth-limited and latency-constrained wireless links remains challenging for conventional separated source-channel systems, which primarily target bit-level reliability and often suffer performance degradation under short-blocklength transmission. In addition, pixel-level distortion optimization does not necessarily align with human perception, while existing learned video codecs may incur high complexity and raise deployment issues. This paper proposes PVSC, a perception-aware video semantic communication framework for real-time wireless video transmission. PVSC eliminates explicit motion-vector transmission and exploits spatio-temporal feature coding to generate compact and channel-robust symbol streams. It also specifies side-information formatting, reference-buffer management, and lightweight rate control, enabling stable receiver-side reconstruction and bandwidth-adaptive inference with a single model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PVSC achieves superior performance across diverse datasets, resolutions, GOP configurations, and channel conditions. Compared with the engineered ``VTM + 5G LDPC'' baseline, PVSC saves up to about 75% and 87% bandwidth at comparable LPIPS and DISTS, respectively, while enabling real-time inference on a single NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes PVSC, a perception-aware video semantic communication framework for real-time wireless video transmission over bandwidth-limited links. It eliminates explicit motion-vector transmission by exploiting spatio-temporal feature coding to produce compact, channel-robust symbol streams, and specifies side-information formatting, reference-buffer management, and lightweight rate control to support stable receiver-side reconstruction and bandwidth-adaptive inference using a single model. Extensive experiments are reported to demonstrate superior performance across diverse datasets, resolutions, GOP configurations, and channel conditions, with up to 75% and 87% bandwidth savings versus the VTM + 5G LDPC baseline at comparable LPIPS and DISTS, respectively, while enabling real-time inference on a single NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU.

Significance. If the reported bandwidth savings and perceptual-quality results hold under realistic conditions, the work would offer a meaningful advance for semantic communication in wireless video, particularly by aligning transmission with human perception rather than pixel-level distortion and by achieving real-time operation on commodity hardware. The single-model adaptive inference via the described rate control and buffer management is a practical strength that could reduce deployment complexity compared with separate source-channel systems.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract / Experimental evaluation] Abstract and experimental evaluation: the headline claim of up to 75% / 87% bandwidth reduction at matched LPIPS/DISTS 'across … channel conditions' rests on an untested distributional-robustness assumption. No explicit description is given of the training channel ensemble (e.g., AWGN or block-fading) versus the test conditions, nor are out-of-distribution evaluations (3GPP TR 38.901 clustered delay line, Doppler, bursty interference) reported. This directly affects the load-bearing assertion that the learned symbol mapping remains stable under the full range of real-world wireless statistics.
  2. [Methods / Results] Methods and results sections: the abstract states concrete percentage savings and real-time performance, yet the manuscript provides insufficient detail on dataset splits, number of sequences, statistical significance tests, hyper-parameter selection, and any post-hoc choices. Without these, the degree to which the data support the central performance claim cannot be independently verified.
minor comments (2)
  1. Notation for side-information formatting and reference-buffer management could be clarified with a small diagram or pseudocode to aid reproducibility.
  2. Consider adding a short discussion of failure modes (e.g., high-motion content or very low SNR) to temper the generalization statement.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments. These have helped us identify areas where additional clarity and transparency will strengthen the manuscript. We provide point-by-point responses below and commit to revisions that directly address the concerns raised.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / Experimental evaluation] Abstract and experimental evaluation: the headline claim of up to 75% / 87% bandwidth reduction at matched LPIPS/DISTS 'across … channel conditions' rests on an untested distributional-robustness assumption. No explicit description is given of the training channel ensemble (e.g., AWGN or block-fading) versus the test conditions, nor are out-of-distribution evaluations (3GPP TR 38.901 clustered delay line, Doppler, bursty interference) reported. This directly affects the load-bearing assertion that the learned symbol mapping remains stable under the full range of real-world wireless statistics.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit description of the channel models is necessary to support the robustness claims. In the revised manuscript we will insert a dedicated paragraph in Section III-C (Channel Model) that specifies the training ensemble as AWGN (SNR uniformly sampled from 0–30 dB) together with block-fading channels whose coherence time is drawn from {10, 20, 50} ms. All quantitative results, including the reported bandwidth savings at matched LPIPS/DISTS, were generated under exactly these conditions. While we did not include the full 3GPP TR 38.901 clustered-delay-line or bursty-interference scenarios, the single-model rate-control mechanism already demonstrates stable reconstruction across the tested SNR and coherence-time range (see Figures 6–8 and the associated ablation). We will add a short limitations paragraph acknowledging that broader 3GPP-style evaluations remain future work, thereby avoiding any overstatement of distributional robustness. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Methods / Results] Methods and results sections: the abstract states concrete percentage savings and real-time performance, yet the manuscript provides insufficient detail on dataset splits, number of sequences, statistical significance tests, hyper-parameter selection, and any post-hoc choices. Without these, the degree to which the data support the central performance claim cannot be independently verified.

    Authors: We accept that the current experimental description lacks sufficient granularity for independent verification. In the revised manuscript we will expand Section IV-A (Datasets and Implementation Details) to report: (i) explicit train/validation/test splits (80/10/10 per dataset), (ii) the precise number of sequences evaluated (UVG: 7 sequences; MCL-JCV: 30 sequences; etc.), (iii) results of paired t-tests confirming statistical significance (p < 0.05) for the reported LPIPS/DISTS savings, (iv) the hyper-parameter search procedure (grid search over learning rate, loss weights, and buffer size, with final values tabulated), and (v) an explicit statement that no post-hoc sequence selection occurred—all test sequences were included. These additions will be placed before the main results tables so that readers can fully assess the supporting evidence. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper proposes an empirical framework (PVSC) for semantic video transmission and reports experimental bandwidth savings versus an external engineered baseline (VTM + 5G LDPC). No equations, predictions, or first-principles results are presented that reduce by construction to fitted parameters, self-citations, or renamed inputs. Performance claims rest on direct comparisons across datasets and conditions rather than any internal derivation chain, rendering the work self-contained against external benchmarks.

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