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Frontier Radar — Video Quality Operations

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: 2095953 bytes. Generated by nx_swcompare_gapmap over a data-only domain spec (videoops.q + videoops.axes) — zero domain-specific code.
Top research opportunities (the 2025/26 frontier is active here and Nishi has no organ yet):
Capability axisNishi organFrontier momentum (2025/26)Signal
MONITOR: build/version telemetry on every tilepresent
512 mentions		COVERED
PREVENT: cross-instance encode/decode conformance farmpresent
36 mentions		COVERED
PREVENT: field-representative codec gates (real content+noise)present
33 mentions		COVERED
MONITOR: per-session QoE beacon (fps/bytes/mode)present
28 mentions		COVERED
MONITOR: perceptual quality metric (VMAF-class)present
17 mentions		COVERED
PREVENT: decoder fuzz/robustness harnesspresent
17 mentions		COVERED
ADDRESS: adaptive bitrate ladderpresent
16 mentions		COVERED
PREVENT: staged rollout behind flagspresent
16 mentions		COVERED
SPOT: decoder-faithfulness probepresent
14 mentions		COVERED
ADDRESS: auto-fallback to safe codec modepresent
10 mentions		COVERED
ADDRESS: stale-client self-upgradepresent
10 mentions		COVERED
SPOT: cross-instance recon-hash drift detectionpresent
10 mentions		COVERED
SPOT: blockiness/artifact detectorpresent
8 mentions		COVERED
SPOT: device/browser conformance matrixabsent
7 mentions		OPPORTUNITY
ADDRESS: keyframe request on loss (PLI-class)present
6 mentions		COVERED
MONITOR: full-reference PSNR/quality harnesspresent
5 mentions		COVERED
PREVENT: syntax/capability version negotiationpresent
2 mentions		COVERED

Opportunities 1 · covered 16 · dormant 0

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.