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Transform and Entropy Coding in AV2

Published: January 6, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.02712v1

By: Alican Nalci , Hilmi E. Egilmez , Madhu P. Krishnan and more

Potential Business Impact:

Makes videos smaller with better quality.

Business Areas:
Video Streaming Content and Publishing, Media and Entertainment, Video

AV2 is the successor to the AV1 royalty-free video coding standard developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Its primary objective is to deliver substantial compression gains and subjective quality improvements while maintaining low-complexity encoder and decoder operations. This paper describes the transform, quantization and entropy coding design in AV2, including redesigned transform kernels and data-driven transforms, expanded transform partitioning, and a mode & coefficient dependent transform signaling. AV2 introduces several new coding tools including Intra/Inter Secondary Transforms (IST), Trellis Coded Quantization (TCQ), Adaptive Transform Coding (ATC), Probability Adaptation Rate Adjustment (PARA), Forward Skip Coding (FSC), Cross Chroma Component Transforms (CCTX), Parity Hiding (PH) tools and improved lossless coding. These advances enable AV2 to deliver the highest quality video experience for video applications at a significantly reduced bitrate.

Page Count
18 pages

Category
Electrical Engineering and Systems Science:
Image and Video Processing