  In this paper, we propose a new fast CU partition algorithm for VVC intra
coding based on cross-block difference. This difference is measured by the
gradient and the content of sub-blocks obtained from partition and is employed
to guide the skipping of unnecessary horizontal and vertical partition modes.
With this guidance, a fast determination of block partitions is accordingly
achieved. Compared with VVC, our proposed method can save 41.64% (on average)
encoding time with only 0.97% (on average) increase of BD-rate.
