The invention discloses an HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) decoding complexity control method based on video significance and belongs to the field of
video decoding. According to the method, firstly, the significance of each LCU (Largest Coding Unit) is predicted through a region significance detection
algorithm of an HEVC compression domain; secondly, a plurality of training videos are selected to
train function relationships between deblocking filters / simplification movement compensation and decoding complexity / video sensing
distortion, and an HEVC decoding complexity control and sensing
quality optimization equation is established according to a
significance map and the function relationships; and finally the equation is solved, thereby precisely controlling HEVC decoding complexity and ensuring the sensing
distortion to be least. The method has the advantages that when the decoding complexity is controlled, the sensing quality of a video is ensured to the greatest extent, a user can carry out decoding according to target complexity appointed by a set demand at a decoding end, so that HEVC decoding can be widely applied to terminal devices with different computing capabilities or different electric quantities, or video playing can be finished in appointed time under a certain electric quantity.