YOLO-based Semantic Communication with Generative AI-aided Resource Allocation for Digital Twins Construction

Understand

Digital Twins play a crucial role in bridging the physical and virtual worlds.

• Given the dynamic and evolving characteristics of the physical world, a huge volume of data transmission and exchange is necessary to attain synchronized updates in the virtual world.
• In this paper, we propose a semantic communication framework based on You Only Look Once (YOLO) to construct a virtual apple orchard with the aim of mitigating the costs associated with data transmission.
• Specifically, we first employ the YOLOv7-X object detector to extract semantic information from captured images of edge devices, thereby reducing the volume of transmitted data and saving transmission costs.