This weekend 1/8 of Russia’s World Cup finals is colorful, the gallic rooster and pampas eagle goal wars, and admire a person only made three goals in the first world war, France 4 than 3 send home in Argentina, messi and go back again easily.when, on the other side of Portugal 2-1 defeat to Uruguay, Lionel messi and cristiano ronaldo two big super giant quarterfinals.
This may be the last World Cup for both veteran players, and the fans are offering their best wishes. According to Youku, the nearly 20 million viewers for a single match between France and Afghanistan hit a record high, up 67 percent from the opening game of the World Cup.
Alibaba Cloud said that the match between France and Afghanistan ignited the enthusiasm for watching the match online, and the rapid growth of live streaming platforms represented by Youku made Alibaba Cloud set a record for the peak traffic of all live streaming. In addition to Youku, Ali Cloud also supports CNTV and CCTV5 clients, with 1500+ CDN nodes worldwide and bandwidth reserve of over 120T, escorting 70% of the live World Cup traffic of the whole network.
50 frames of ultra clear cinema immersive enjoyment
The World Cup is the big stage of the new technology, youku first applied the ali cloud 50 frames very clear technology, using the ultra high frame rate algorithm, direction and moving track forecast by artificial intelligence algorithm, the original 25 frames per second of ordinary TV signal transformation for the high frame rate of video content of 50 frames per second, provide users with more fluent immersive viewing experience.
Video transcoding is the core link of Internet live broadcast, and the bit rate directly determines the sharpness of the picture. The higher the bit rate, the clearer the image, and the higher the bandwidth requirements.
Ali cloud unique narrow-band hd 2.0 technology, code optimization according to the picture content, allowing users under the same bandwidth to watch the video more clearly, ali cloud AI technology can also identify the images of the football, the players, the lawn, respectively different strategies of code optimization, make the whole picture more administrative levels feels.
Narrowband HD 2.0 technology can help live streaming platforms and consumers save more than 30 percent of their traffic without sacrificing picture quality.
The highlights you’re watching are all made by AI
It’s not just the smooth, high-definition picture quality. Artificial intelligence is also playing a big role in the live broadcast of this World Cup. Ali Cloud has created a full range of artificial intelligence editing technology for CCTV5 mobile phone client, providing the combination of computer vision, audio, machine learning and other technologies with sports events.
If you missed the live broadcast, don’t worry, highlights will allow you to watch all the highlights in just a few minutes. In the past, highlights of a football match were edited manually, which took at least 30 minutes. However, the intelligent video AI jointly developed by Aliyun and Damoyuan can generate highlights within 3 to 5 minutes after each match, which is 10 times more efficient than in the past.
In addition to the highlights of the whole game, ali Cloud’s intelligent video AI also realizes the detection of the first pass, replay, dangerous shooting, foul detection, movement track analysis and attack rhythm analysis, etc., replacing the huge and complex hd field production equipment with AI technology, and producing highlights efficiently and in real time.
Apart from the World Cup, the technology will continue to be applied to CCTV CCTV5 and will be used for video production of football matches this year, such as the Asian Games, The German Bundesliga and France’s Ligue 1.