Abstract: To meet the demands from the rapidly growing information industry, AVS (audio video coding standard) Group is committed to produce technical standards to provide digital audio-video equipment and systems with high-efficient and economical coding/decoding technologies. In 2008, AVS began to formulate stereoscopic video coding standards including two-channel based interview prediction coding and stereo-packing mode coding. To support the 3DTV service for different displays, the AVS stereoscopic video coding standard sets independent content descriptors for each coding method. So far, formulation of AVS stereoscopic video coding standard has already completed. Multiview video coding standards and free view-point 3D video coding standards may be the next objective for the AVS 3D Adhoc Group.

Key words: audio video coding standard (AVS), stereoscopic video, video coding standard