Embodiments for high efficiency low complexity interpolation filters for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) are disclosed herein, specifically novel techniques for a video compression system. In order to estimate and compensate sub-pel displacements, the image signal on these sub-pel positions is generated by an interpolation process. In HEVC, sub-pel pixel interpolation is performed using filters. As described herein, the filter may have, for example, eight taps to determine the sub-pel pixel values for sub-pel pixel positions, such as half-pel and quarter-pel positions. The taps weight the integer pixels with coefficient values to generate the sub-pel signals. Different coefficients may produce different compression performance in signal distortion and noise.