Framework of AVS2-video coding

Abstract

The first generation of Audio-video coding standard (AVS1) will become an international standard of IEEE (IEEE.1857). The second generation of Audio-video coding standard (AVS2) is a successor to IEEE.1857 which targets to higher coding efficiency, especially for high resolution videos, with reasonable complexity increase. Currently, AVS2 working draft is developed, in which symbolic techniques of IEEE.1857, such as logarithmic arithmetic coding, are still used. It also introduces new coding tools, e.g. flexible partition structure which is based on macro-block structure and high efficient prediction methods utilizing more texture information and temporal redundancies, etc. The performance of AVS2 is improved by 37% compared to the IEEE.1857 Jiaqiang Profile and 16.4% compared to H.264 in average. This paper provides an overview of the framework of AVS2-video coding standard.