Semantic compression for compute offloading

An apparatus user equipment configured for semantic encoding, the apparatus comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
• determining an expected power consumption for encoding video data that includes semantic features, the semantic features representing a meaning of information represented in video frames of the video data;
• encoding one or more video frames of the video data using a selected a semantic representation of one or more video frames of the video data, the semantic representation being selected based on the expected power consumption that is determined;
• and
• transmitting the encoded video data including the semantic representation.