DeepJSCC-f: deep joint source-channel coding of images with feedback
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Author(s)
Kurka, David Burth
Gunduz, Deniz
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We consider wireless transmission of images in the presence of channel output feedback. From a Shannon theoretic perspective feedback does not improve the asymptotic end-to-end performance, and separate source coding followed by capacity-achieving channel coding, which ignores the feedback signal, achieves the optimal performance. It is well known that separation is not optimal in the practical finite blocklength regime; however, there are no known practical joint source-channel coding (JSCC) schemes that can exploit the feedback signal and surpass the performance of separation-based schemes. Inspired by the recent success of deep learning methods for JSCC, we investigate how noiseless or noisy channel output feedback can be incorporated into the transmission system to improve the reconstruction quality at the receiver. We introduce an autoencoder-based JSCC scheme, which we call DeepJSCC-f, that exploits the channel output feedback, and provides considerable improvements in terms of the end-to-end reconstruction quality for fixed-length transmission, or in terms of the average delay for variable-length transmission. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first practical JSCC scheme that can fully exploit channel output feedback, demonstrating yet another setting in which modern machine learning techniques can enable the design of new and efficient communication methods that surpass the performance of traditional structured coding-based designs.
Date Issued
2020-05-01
Date Acceptance
2020-04-01
Citation
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2020, 1 (1), pp.178-193
ISSN
2641-8770
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Start Page
178
End Page
193
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
Volume
1
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9066966
Grant Number
677854
Subjects
cs.IT
cs.IT
cs.LG
eess.IV
eess.SP
math.IT
stat.ML
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-04-14