From May 28 to 29, 2021 Ali Cloud Summit was grandly held in Beijing National Convention Center, from “comprehensive cloud” to “innovation on cloud”, marking ali Cloud’s new major upgrade in 2021! Ali Cloud will increase investment in three aspects in 2021.Good service, cloud nail integration, data intelligenceAnd on the basis of the strategy of “deepening the foundation, thickening the Middle Taiwan, strengthening the ecology”, the new direction of “good service” is added to build the largest and best digital service team in China.
At this summit, Aliyun Video Cloud, Together with Dharma Yuan and Dingding launched sub-forums on customer experience optimization of audio and video business, sub-forums on low code development, sub-forums on visual AI open platform and industry applications. For the full audio and video scene, ali Cloud video cloud launched a series of audio and video solutions and technical best practices, such as interactive classroom, interactive live broadcasting, audio and video conference, AI media production, as an important content and topic of this Ali Cloud Summit, has won wide attention from all walks of life participants and the industry. The low code, high performance and strong experience audio and video services accelerate the transformation of video, online and digital intelligence of the whole industry, showing the in-depth exploration and comprehensive layout of Aliyun video cloud in multiple industries and scenarios.
Interactive classroom makes education more intelligent
Ali Cloud video cloud interactive classroom product leader Wang Kaixuan
The future of education is lifelong learning based on digital technology. Learning in the future is no longer limited to book knowledge, but will be extended to a wider range of areas such as job skills, social, cognitive and interest. More than 900 million people in China are expected to be covered by online education platforms based on digital technology by 2030, according to a McKinsey research report.
An ideal online education platform has three core steps, first is the product of a stable platform, followed by the high quality courses, moreover is the high quality learning experience, the three links contain both the needs of manufacturers, teachers and students, also for audio and video codec, network transmission, AI intelligent production, and many other technology put forward higher request, This is not an easy task for any online education company, which means a long RESEARCH and development cycle, high research and development costs and deep technical barriers, especially some traditional education institutions are facing more difficulties.
The latest intelligent interactive classroom solution launched by Aliyun video cloud can help all kinds of educational institutions to quickly build a one-stop teaching platform. It covers all the functions of mainstream teaching scenes, goes deep into all kinds of teaching scenes, and directly hits the pain points of real-time interaction of online education.
Based on light green screen and deep learning technology, the video cloud intelligent interactive class realizes the best fusion of portrait and courseware background, and highly restores the effect of on-site lectures. Through gesture recognition, virtual teacher, body movement recognition, etc., enrich the interest of courses and make educational interaction more interesting.
In view of the opaque effect of online classroom, interactive classroom automatically generates classroom reports, provides concentration detection, and improves teaching quality and learning effect. In addition, the scenarioalized AI component focuses on music, art, beauty, makeup, dressing, chess, etc., helping educational institutions quickly and flexibly build their own brand online interactive classes to meet more quality education and interest teaching scenes.
Interactive live broadcast to reshape the business scene
Ali Cloud video cloud product solution architect Wang Gen
Live streaming has become the industry standard. In the first three quarters of 2020, nearly 25,000 enterprises related to live video were added, with a year-on-year growth of 565.32% compared with last year. The “live video +” mode restructured traditional scenes, innovated business models, and promoted the development of live video to segmented fields.
Traditional interactive live broadcast business includes basic capacity building, real-time interaction and content transmission, which requires high human development costs. However, Aliyun Video cloud expects to provide everyone with interactive live broadcast services with faster access, easy interaction, efficient distribution, security and stability.
In the view of Aliyun Video cloud, the future-oriented live streaming service should be highly interactive, featuring rapid construction, ultra-low cost, mutual integration, intelligent security and other features.
Under the service system of Ali Cloud video cloud, all kinds of customers can quickly access business realization through LowCode platform; Rich original components and scenario-based interactive components to enhance the c-end interactive experience; Based on AliRTC+AliRTS+AliIM to improve conversion efficiency and achieve efficient distribution; Based on Ali’s advanced multi-mode content understanding AI technology and trillion level data resources to ensure the security of live broadcast.
Aliyun video cloud interactive live broadcast solution has promoted the business development of customers. Taking a maternal and infant social APP as an example, aliyun Video cloud ultra-low delay live broadcast RTS product application has reduced live delay by more than 80% and delay rate by 20%, greatly improving real-time interactive experience. The UV and GMV indexes have been greatly improved.
Audio and video conference, connected to the office island of the enterprise
Cheng Xi, head of aliyun Video cloud audio and video conference products
What does audio and video conferencing have to do with the cloud? Before the outbreak of COVID-19, we had always considered audiovideoconferencing as a privatized solution. During the pandemic, we found that the large-scale access, flexible deployment, high concurrency and conferencing were a natural combination. Dingding is one of many cloud conferencing products that have been widely used in the past year.
In 2020, Dingding supported 120 million people to hold video conferences, while the number of online meetings exceeded 20 million, and more than 10 million organizations and enterprises conducted remote video conferences on Dingding.
“With so many companies in the service and support so much business at the same time, I found very difficult point that the connection is very difficult, really very difficult, especially for the many advantages of small and medium-sized enterprises that are not obvious” digital transformation, ali cloud video cloud video conferencing product owner share to Cheng Xi, “outbreak before nailing meeting ability is 16, During the epidemic, we immediately increased our meeting capacity to 302 and made efforts to resume work and production after the epidemic, which is just one of the efforts we have been making to open up connections last year.”
In the past year, Aliyun video cloud has focused on connecting the business islands of various enterprises, from voice system, personnel system, email system, schedule, administrative system, and even conference room management system. We hope to make the connection more different and make the collaboration more efficient.
In practice, aliyun video cloud team found that the industry needs a new one-stop meeting solution based on the “cloud integration” architecture with personalized demands, dramatically increased number of personnel and more complex equipment models.
The launch of the ali cloud one-stop solution meeting, through the meeting, after the meeting, the assembly of the whole meeting process, improve the overall office coordination ability, the connection of office business, through the stability of the high performance and low cost of audio and video connection person, business and equipment, to provide customers with stable and reliable simple and easy to use the audio and video experience together.
Low code, so that business digital at your fingertips
Ali Cloud video cloud senior technical expert Hu Hongwei
Low code is a methodology for building, running and managing applications and an extreme abstract thinking of application scenarios. Low code platforms have many advantages, such as model-driven and template-based; Metadata programming, visual programming, life cycle management, good scalability, and more. From the 1980s to today, the low code technology has been the talk of the entire span of 30 years, the industry is currently promising low code technology, the total size of the low code market is predicted to reach $21.2 billion by 2022.
The technical architecture of Aliyun video cloud interactive classroom solution is based on the principle of low code design, which is convenient for many education customers who do not have the basis of code construction to quickly build online education services. In designing the technical architecture, the team followed the following four principles:
Configuration: Zero code, low code configurable integration solution, lower threshold.
Scenario-based encapsulation: Scenario-based SDK and Demo encapsulation, more intuitive and simple.
Modular design: media capability, scene application modular implementation, dynamic assembly according to the scene, stronger ability.
Easy to expand: Cloud and terminal API can be expanded to meet more requirements for deeper and thicker services.
Solution to build the set low code, will help customers faster, less cost, lower threshold, set up their own interactive classroom anytime and anywhere to complete the teaching task, let originally does not have business operations staff also have the ability of technology development, demand change and rapid response to rapidly changing business scenario, everyone to become an engineer.
AI intelligent production, release digital media content productivity
Ali cloud video cloud senior technical expert Zou Juan
With the progress of technology and the development of science and technology, the carrier of content information has changed from pictures to videos. Nowadays, 70% of Internet traffic comes from video, and people’s aesthetic habits tend to be video-oriented, and put forward higher requirements.
The evolution of media production also presents from artificial intelligence, since the childhood to the public, from passive to receive the characteristics of the character interaction, video production, great changes have taken place in all links before video production must be by professional institutions and professional software to create, and today we can on the mobile phone software or online editor in the browser, The previous media assets audit need manual audit, broadcast need broadcast car to broadcast, but now only need a small software development package can be completed.
Today, with the support of cloud computing, we have promoted the whole media production model to a new era — intelligent production architecture integrated with cloud. The cloud integrated intelligent production architecture includes four core links: content creation, material management, editing and packaging, rendering and synthesis, and has rich functions such as cloud broadcasting, cloud editing, and AI processing and production.
With the support of cloud-integrated architecture and AI capabilities, content production in the media industry will be given more possibilities. This production model will greatly reshape the industry, allowing real content creators to release from complicated and repetitive labor and create richer content, forms and patterns.
At the same time, with the development of AI technology, machines will also be more capable of thinking and evolution. In ali Cloud’s view, the future of AI intelligent production is that machines can evolve into an “artist” and have more possibilities to collide with the thoughts of human artists. In the future, based on the video cloud technology, Ali Cloud video cloud will continue to penetrate into the industry, industry and scene, explore the pain points and potential possibilities of real scenes, polish the audio and video solutions for the whole scene, and realize “innovation and value creation on the cloud” with the audio and video digitalization capability integrated with the cloud.
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