Robust predictive vector quantizer design

The design of predictive quantizers generally suffers from difficulties due to the prediction loop, which have an impact on the convergence and the stability of the design procedure. We previously proposed an asymptotically closed-loop approach to quantizer design for predictive coding applications, which benefits from the stability of open-loop design while asymptotically optimizing the actual closed-loop system. In this paper, we present an enhancement to the approach where joint optimization of both predictor and quantizer is performed within the asymptotically closed-loop framework. The proposed design method is tested on synthetic sources (first-order Gauss and Laplacian-Markov sequences), and on natural sources, in particular, line spectral frequency parameters of speech signals