According to the fast coding unit division method for H.266 / VVC intra-frame prediction coding, the texture complexity of a current coding CU is judged according to a
texture descriptor, if the current coding CU is a flat region, division of the current CU is terminated,
quadtree division is carried out on a CU block with the size of 64 * 64 to obtain a CU block with the size of 32 * 32,
horizontal and vertical activity degrees are calculated, and the CU block with the size of 32 * 32 is obtained. If the difference between the horizontal activity degree and the vertical activity degree is smaller than a set threshold value, a VTM default mode is adopted, if the horizontal activity degree is larger than the vertical activity degree, texture activity degrees of
quadtree division, horizontal
binary tree division and horizontal
ternary tree division are calculated, and if the vertical activity degree is larger than the horizontal activity degree, texture activity degrees of
quadtree division, horizontal
binary tree division and horizontal
ternary tree division are calculated; the texture activity degrees of quadtree division, vertical
binary tree division and vertical
ternary tree division are calculated, the texture activity degrees are judged, a corresponding division mode is selected, and otherwise, a VTM default mode is adopted; according to the method, flat CU block division can be terminated in advance, a large amount of
cost calculation is skipped, and the coding time is simply and effectively saved.