Efficient Semantic Image Communication for Traffic Monitoring at the Edge

arXiv:2604.12622v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many visual monitoring systems operate under strict communication constraints, where transmitting full-resolution images is impractical and often unnecessary. In such settings, visual data is often used for object presence, spatial relationships, and scene context rather than exact pixel fidelity. This paper presents two semantic image communication pipelines for traffic monitoring, MMSD and SAMR, that reduce transmission cost while preserving me