Overview of AVS broadcasting standard for high definition video

With rapid growth of HD video applications, AVS started HD video profile standardization process in March 2008 and finalized in September 2009. In the late of year 2011, the broadcasting industry standard for HD video compression was developed based on this work and has been recently completed and approved. It uses state-of-the-art coding tools and provides enhanced coding efficiency tools for high-definition video application. In this paper, an overview of this standard is provided, including the highlights of the capabilities of the new features tools. Some comparisons with the existing standards are also provided.