The invention discloses a CU block division method based on AVS3 texture information, a 
computer device and a storage medium, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a variance, a horizontal gradient and a 
vertical gradient of a to-be-divided CU block, selecting to skip some division 
modes according to the relation between the variance, the horizontal gradient and the 
vertical gradient and a first threshold value, and obtaining candidate division 
modes, and selecting an optimal division mode from the candidate division 
modes, and dividing the CU block to be divided in the optimal division mode. According to the method, texture information is extracted based on the variance and the Scharr operator to divide the CU blocks into different categories, the variance with 
low complexity is used for analyzing a division mode 
pruning strategy of flat blocks and complex blocks, rapid division of the CU blocks is achieved, the speed of an AVS3 
encoder is increased, the Scharr operator is used for considering fine textures and texture directions, and the method is suitable for large-scale popularization and application. The 
algorithm is balanced between the coding speed and the 
coding quality; the method is widely applied to the technical field of video coding.