Impact of Quantization Noise on CNN-based Joint Source-Channel Coding and Modulation

This paper investigated the impact of a quantizer in analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters in communication devices on image quality when using deep learning-based joint source-channel coding modulation (JSCCM) for image transmission. In recent years, JSCCM, which efficiently encodes im...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference S. 465 - 468
Hauptverfasser: Matsumoto, Keigo, Inoue, Yoshiaki, Hara-Azumi, Yuko, Maruta, Kazuki, Nakayama, Yu, Hisano, Daisuke
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:Englisch
Japanisch
Veröffentlicht: IEEE 08.01.2023
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deep learning
Image coding
Image communication
Image quality
Joint source-channel coding
PSNR
quantization
Quantization (signal)
Symbols
Training
ISSN:2331-9860
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Zusammenfassung:This paper investigated the impact of a quantizer in analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters in communication devices on image quality when using deep learning-based joint source-channel coding modulation (JSCCM) for image transmission. In recent years, JSCCM, which efficiently encodes images and videos with low information entropy, has attracted great attention. JSCCM has a structure based on an autoencoder and determines the compression ratios for the image input by adjusting the number of IQ symbol output. The IQ symbol output from the encoder are allocated to symbol constellations with higher degrees of arbitrariness than those in typical square quadrature amplitude modulation and are therefore expected to be strongly affected by the quantization noise. In this paper, we employed quantization to the IQ symbol sequence and investigated its effect. Adjusting the quantizer's clipping ratio and the number of quantization bits, we examined the images' tolerance of the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR). The simulation results showed that by adequately adjusting the clipping ratio, the image quality can be guaranteed to be equivalent to ideal conditions without quantization noise, and the number of required quantization bits that do not degrade the PSNR, was calculated.
ISSN:2331-9860
DOI:10.1109/CCNC51644.2023.10060488