Nishi Compare -- Frontier Radar: Video Codec

Where the 2025/26 research frontier is moving, and where Nishi should test, deepen, or research next.

How this works. The nishi researcher banked the current (2024-2026) frontier for this domain over sovereign TLS (keyless OpenAlex/arXiv). For each capability axis this radar measures frontier momentum = how often the frontier corpus mentions it, times our organ presence (probed on disk). Absent + hot = a research opportunity / where to test. Corpus measured: 2362835 bytes. Generated by nx_swcompare_gapmap over a data-only domain spec (video.q + video.axes) — zero domain-specific code.

Top research opportunities (the 2025/26 frontier is active here and Nishi has no organ yet):

Perceptual / generative coding — frontier momentum 98
End-to-end neural codec — frontier momentum 22
Advanced tools (AV1 / VVC-class) — frontier momentum 8
Learned rate-distortion / entropy model — frontier momentum 6
Implicit neural representation (INR) — frontier momentum 5

Capability axis	Nishi organ	Frontier momentum (2025/26)	Signal
Perceptual / generative coding	absent	98 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Block transform (integer DCT)	present	28 mentions	COVERED
End-to-end neural codec	absent	22 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Bitstream writer	present	9 mentions	COVERED
Advanced tools (AV1 / VVC-class)	absent	8 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Learned rate-distortion / entropy model	absent	6 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Implicit neural representation (INR)	absent	5 mentions	OPPORTUNITY
Entropy coding (CAVLC)	present	4 mentions	COVERED
Inter prediction / B-frames	present	0 mentions	COVERED
Intra prediction	present	0 mentions	COVERED
Deblocking / in-loop filter	present	0 mentions	COVERED
Chroma / color	present	0 mentions	COVERED

frontier momentum is a mechanical keyword count over real 2024-2026 works; our presence is probed on disk. A discovery signal, not a ranking of importance. Zero JS, zero trackers.

Frontier Radar — Video Codec