Abstract:
Smart Cloud Album (
Cloud Photos
) is a one-stop solution provided by Ali Cloud for image applications, which can provide basic functions such as image file storage and management, intelligent analysis of image content such as classification and marking, face recognition, and intelligent search services based on natural language understanding. Generally speaking, it helps enterprises and developers who need to store and manage photos and videos in the cloud to quickly build their own applications.
On August 3, 2017, the product was launched on Ali Cloud for public test. In October, a new application scenario was launched: image sharing, which is suitable for photo and video sharing services of various exhibitions, events, corporate annual meetings, parties and other activity scenes.
Technical interpretation
Intelligent cloud album is a service based on AliOS cloud album. According to the previous data, it can support users to manage the number of photos of one billion levels and the photo storage capacity of PB level. Compared with previous products, smart cloud album has high integration ability. It stores the metadata of photos in the cloud, extracts user portraits for users by using the metadata of photos, and creates value for users by using photo data — this is also the biggest highlight of the product, providing one-stop solutions and intelligent services:
- One-stop: only need to open a service, can solve all user image management needs;
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Intelligent: Based on ali cloud internal powerful image recognition technology, face recognition technology, search technology to provide intelligent services for users. Future updates on pictures and videos
AI
Technology will evolve to provide users with richer ways to manage their photos without requiring any development investment.
Product Architecture Diagram
Application scenarios
For image content, smart cloud album has rich application scenarios in mobile phone manufacturers, cloud photography services and other fields. For mobile phone manufacturers, to develop cloud album on mobile phones, developers only need to pay attention to their client business, intelligent cloud album can provide complete cloud services, including thing recognition, scene recognition, face recognition, photo search; For cloud photography service, photography service providers can directly apply for the opening of image sharing service, and then provide H5 page for image sharing and transmission without any development input.
Mobile cloud album
The camera function of mobile phone is the most frequently used function by users. Taking photos anytime and anywhere will produce a large number of photos occupying the storage space of mobile phone. Therefore, the major mobile phone manufacturers have launched their own cloud album products, aiming at the photo development of more and more functions, such as automatic photo classification, face recognition, image search and so on.
To build a complete mobile cloud album service, huge resources need to be invested to develop various cloud services, such as account, storage, database, image recognition, face recognition, search, voice recognition
… Even if they choose third-party cloud services, developers need to connect one by one. Cloud service interfaces of different vendors are not unified, so developers need to adapt to different interfaces, resulting in huge development and maintenance workload.
Mobile solution architecture diagram
Smart cloud album provides a one-stop solution for developers of such application scenarios, who only need to have their own set of account systems
, smart cloud album can provide all other cloud services, with the development of technology, will provide more rich functions in the future. Developers only need to connect to a cloud service to implement all the features
– Unified interface, unified operation and maintenance background, and very low development cost.
Video sharing
In recent years, represented by marathon sports events attracted a large number of the participation of the general public, events will output a large number of participants photos for everyone to download, in addition to all kinds of exhibition, business conference, party and other large-scale activities also can get professional photography club provide photography services, which has given rise to very cloudy photography service enterprises. These enterprises have their own photographer resources and cloud solutions for real-time photo uploading, providing photography and photo dissemination services for large-scale events. However, the core resource of such enterprises is professional photographers, and their development ability is generally weak, so the ability of photo cloud service is also weak. Therefore, the smart cloud album provides this kind of enterprise users with the photo album service capability of image sharing.
Image sharing solution architecture diagram
Users directly apply for the image sharing service, and the smart cloud album can immediately provide photos for dissemination
H5
Page. Users can achieve zero development, and users with development ability can also do some customized development based on the provided services.
Smart cloud album is the world’s first product to provide a perfect cloud album solution. At present, at home and abroad
Multiple cloud service providers
More independent products such as image recognition and face recognition are provided. If users use competing products to build cloud album services, they need to connect with each other product by product, which costs a lot of development.
At present, the product is still in the public beta stage. Although the free public beta product cannot reflect the price advantage at present, the one-stop solution, compared with various independent products directly connected by users, believes that the packaged price will have a great price advantage over independent access.