An artifact that reproduces the scene of the two sessions
On the occasion of the National Two Sessions in 2022, the venue is extremely busy inside and outside the venue. In order to efficiently report all media, People's Daily new media reporters have installed an "artifact" in their mobile phones - the mobile version of the "AI Editorial Department" of the two sessions.
This is a customized intelligent media production product derived from the "AI editorial department" of Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud. It empowers all media editing and production through artificial intelligence technology. The "People's Daily AI Editorial Department" has played an important role in the reports of the two sessions in 2020 and 2021. This year's two sessions will usher in the re-upgrade of AI Editorial Department 3.0.
What is shown in the video is that during the two sessions, the People's Daily reporters were using the mobile version of the "AI editorial department" to shoot on-site, and the video materials could be synchronously sent back to the rear by the 5G network, or by reporters in the front. clip. From discovering clues, obtaining materials, to filming and production, reviewing and issuing, and launching a series of actions and functions such as live broadcasts and interviews with Lianmai, a mobile phone can be completed.
Today, with 5G, cloudification, and intelligence, intelligent media production has increasingly become the infrastructure of the content production industry. The resulting "AI editorial department" has been widely used by new media centers, digital communication companies and other departments and units. . At the same time, new functions such as 5G cloud production and broadcasting, fact checking, communication power analysis, and cloud shorthand have been well received in the application. The full addition of mobile terminals has greatly improved the convenience and timeliness of content production. The deepening of various AI tools continues to play a role as an all-media intelligent assistant.
The representative short video produced this time, "These words of the government work report, warm the heart and lift the spirit!", which was posted on the People's Daily Weibo and WeChat client. Over 3 million.
For three consecutive sessions, help the editor to upgrade
In 2020, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud and the People's Daily Newspaper Technology Department jointly developed the "People's Daily AI Intelligent Editorial Department", which was successfully released in the newspaper. , "trial", "inspection" and other aspects of ability, multi-angle, all-round empowerment of all media news editing and production.
Advance to 2021, the evolution of AI editorial department version 2.0 has added a number of new functions, and focused on upgrading the capabilities of “seeing”, “understanding” and “reviewing”, focusing on improving the productivity of all-media news, adapting to the mobilization of major reports, video The trend of intelligentization and intelligence has strengthened the application scenarios, depth and breadth of AI-enabled newspapers and all-media production in the two sessions.
After nearly a year of iteration, in 2022, the AI editorial department will make new efforts at the intelligent application level. This time, the AI editorial department 3.0 intelligent family has added a number of strong application functions:
New mode: Assist mobile production, edit and broadcast anytime, anywhere;
New terminal: Quick launch on mobile terminal, Apple and Android multi-terminal adaptation; New
review: Verification of integrated media content, prompts for checking and filling omissions and citing the original text;
Reminder, media resource content matching reminder;
new security: video watermark, dark watermark, protect content copyright.
Moving in real time, editing rooms everywhere
In the mobile era, more and more media need to provide editors and communication staff with more convenient editing tools, especially mobile editing tools, which are convenient for news gathering and editing reports anytime and anywhere, and also need mobile tools for real-time review. , to ensure that news content can be released as soon as possible.
Therefore, using the mobile client for material collection, uploading and rapid template production can achieve the effect of news reporting anytime and anywhere, and expand the influence of mainstream media.
AI Editing Department 3.0 realizes the cloudification of video production, so that everywhere can become a media editing room. The mobile version of the AI editorial department and the video intelligent production system realize the connection of users, content, data and functions, and realize a ubiquitous collection of intelligent production tools covering multiple terminals.
This latest version enables many capabilities:
- Let AI do the work for you: provide multiple sets of AI templates, from finding clues to acquiring materials to generating videos, the machine does it all, and users just need to "sit back and enjoy";
- Team efficiency accelerator: You can send back materials, record live broadcasts, manage works, review and issue through mobile phones, break time and space constraints, and improve information turnover;
- Make good videos easy: Provide rich video templates that fit the media scene, and even novice users can easily make good videos;
- Easily cut online live broadcasts: AI can quickly locate characters and key pictures for you, and cut while broadcasting, which is lightweight and intelligent.
5G linkage, the whole chain of media production is on the cloud
In the past, in important live broadcast reports, the traditional remote production and broadcasting business scenarios focused on the whole process of acquisition, editing and broadcasting, and needed to rely on OB vans to achieve SDI signal access and production, and broadcast the signal back through satellite/special line, on-site deployment and operation. The dimensions are highly complex, and the system transformation, upgrade, and expansion are very limited.
Today, in the 5G era, video production is increasingly cloud-based, and the AI editorial department helps People's Daily New Media achieve "full-link cloud migration". At the Yunqi Conference in 2021, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud demonstrated the "AI Studio" product on the spot, which can realize the full link of the media content production process to the cloud, and integrate the directing, green screen keying, virtual synthesis, subtitles Production processes such as packaging, material storage, media asset management, post-production, and short video production are all migrated to the cloud. Only one display is required, no host is required. By linking to the cloud computer "Wuying", you can have powerful video production capabilities. , and with the customized output of the "AI editorial department", the "editing room everywhere" has become a real and efficient application.
In addition to the full link to the cloud, the AI editorial department has given more online production and blessing capabilities to video production, such as AI beauty, real-time super-scoring, slow-motion generation and other special production capabilities. At present, functions such as cloud media recording, AI intelligent editing, AI intelligent color matching, and live beauty have been applied in the existing studio production process. Through lightweight, asset-light, and digital production methods , which can effectively reduce the production cost by 20% and greatly improve the production efficiency.
On the basis of the deep integration of cloud, network and terminal, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud is striving to create a "cloud-integrated" intelligent media production link. 5G also provides a cloud channel for ultra-high-definition content to be uploaded to the cloud, allowing more broadcast platforms to shift from traditional to traditional media. mobile.
More new abilities, more dark technology
The AI editorial department is built on the basis of Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud Intelligent Media Production. Through a large amount of accumulation in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud computing, it comprehensively includes "see", "listen", "understand", "review", "check" and so on. In terms of news all-media production capacity, this time, the People's Daily AI editorial department 3.0 has been newly upgraded, focusing on strengthening the holographic studio, content verification and singing, 5G all-media production, digital human broadcast, one-click filming, hot spot aggregation, video darkening Functions such as watermarking, and more importantly, AI Editing Department 3.0 is also adapted to the mobile terminal, making media production more efficient.
Video dark watermark
Video dark watermarking and video tamper-proofing are used in the production, processing, and traceability of audio and video content to detect tampered audio and video content, protect the copyright of digital audio-visual content, and solve problems in copyright protection and media security.
In response to violent tampering such as stolen video content, remakes, and rotations, the video dark watermark provided by the AI editorial department can still maintain high robustness, provide accurate watermark extraction and comparison capabilities, and have passed the domestic watermark authority ChinaDRM and foreign Hollywood. Accreditation by the accreditation body Cartesian for industry-recognized technical competence.
At the same time, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud's video dark watermark technology also supports digital watermark implantation and capture of 4K content and 8K content. In extreme cases, only 1/36 of the images are stolen, and watermark extraction can be achieved.
In this way, the original picture quality and effect can be guaranteed, and data security can be effectively protected.
Content verification assistance
The content verification product is a unified review system for video, audio, pictures, documents and other materials based on a unified AI algorithm. The system uses artificial intelligence technology and uses content analysis as a means to help users conduct content security verification in the form of machine-assisted review. At the same time, it builds an intelligent and efficient content security protection system to help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency.
This capability empowers audio-visual-text media and helps media organizations through various artificial intelligence technologies such as face recognition, speech recognition (ASR), natural language understanding (NLU), subtitle recognition (OCR), and machine vision (CV). Quickly build an intelligent content verification platform. Use authoritative official source data to comprehensively check the pictures, videos and writing specifications in the manuscript to ensure that the expression is accurate and the content is safe and accurate.
Hotspot Convergence Capture
Responding quickly to all kinds of news and automatically capturing hot news on the whole network is the value ability of the new version of the new version.
The AI editorial department has access to a wealth of clue data to provide inspiration for media business planning and content production, and can also access the media's own clue channels.
The hotspot aggregation service module can automatically search for hotspot news and emergency news on the whole network. You can see real-time hotspot information and understand hotspot events on the whole network through public materials.
- Hot spots on the whole network:
Provide daily rankings of hot topics on the entire network, and recommend video materials related to hot topics on the entire network according to each hot topic, to help topic selection and rapid content production.
- Material subscription:
Support subscription accounts of major mainstream new media platforms such as WeChat, Weibo, Douyin, Toutiao, etc., and automatically obtain the video content published by the subscription account.
- Recommended content:
Carefully select current events, hot spots, and high-quality content for daily content recommendation. Assist editors in editing and production.
AI newsroom, reshape the industry, achieve real news value
As an intelligent media production product of Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud, the AI editorial department is the infrastructure of the content production industry in the intelligent era and an end-to-end product that can be delivered locally.
AI technology is changing with each passing day. Driven by 5G and cloud computing, it has brought the whole process of reshaping to the media industry. The constantly upgraded AI editorial department has realized full cloudification, intelligence, mobility, light weight and batch size for the industry. The new era of media productivity.
So, from this, will journalists be replaced? The answer is of course no.
Intelligent production products such as the AI editorial department can improve the efficiency of media from the whole process of planning, writing, production, review, and release. Therefore, to be more precise, it releases the complicated work of journalists and focuses their energy on content and forms that are more creative and humanistic, so as to feed back the society and create new images.
In the future, look forward to more innovations, more applications, and more prosperity.
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