Nonlinear predictive coding for streaming video

The coding of multimedia data streams is a vital factor in how well, and to what extent a given network can support popular applications. Coding of speech and video, the two significant categories of data under consideration, currently follows the standards based on linear prediction, and MPEG respectively. The work documented in this paper is directed towards the development of an algorithm which permits coding of both voice and video data in an integrated manner with the same technique being used as the base for both the speech and the video coding algorithm of the system. The basic technique adopted for this integrated standard is M-ary predictive coding (MPC) [M. Vandana, January 2003]. MPC is a nonlinear model-based coding scheme which has currently been implemented successfully for speech coding [M. Vandana, January 2003]. The work documented in this paper involved the successful development and implementation of an MPC-based video coding algorithm.