Context Quantization by Minimum Adaptive Code Length

Context quantization is a technique to deal with the issue of context dilution in high-order conditional entropy coding. We investigate the problem of context quantizer design under the criterion of minimum adaptive code length. A property of such context quantizers is derived for binary symbols. A fast context quantizer design algorithm for conditioning binary symbols is presented and its complexity analyzed. It is conjectured that this algorithm is optimal. The context quantization is performed in what may be perceived as a probability simplex space rather than in the space of context instances.