A [Story on the Centennial Olympics Cloud] belonging to Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is an extraordinary existence, recalling what IOC President Thomas Bach said at a press conference on February 6: "We are making history in Beijing."

"The 120-year history of the Olympic Games is the history of higher, faster and stronger human struggle, and also the history of the evolution of technology applications. From the perspective of time, the Olympic Games is a traditional industry, but based on digitalization, the Olympic Games are radiating new brilliance. Beijing Winter Olympics With an unprecedented level of digitalization, more people will experience the Olympic culture and excitement." Bach said.

Undoubtedly, technology and greenness are the core characteristics of the Beijing Winter Olympics. If there is another impression, it may be the aesthetic Winter Olympics.

Whether it is the technology of the Winter Olympics, the greenness of the Winter Olympics, or the aesthetics of the Winter Olympics, in the context of Alibaba Cloud's support for the Winter Olympics to be fully cloud-based, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud is also fully supporting the "cloud" and the new creation of cloud-based services. Everything, such as real-time interaction on the cloud, content immersion on the cloud, intelligent production on the cloud, etc., uses video cloud technology to create a new content and interactive journey in the history of the century-old Olympic Games. Like many "firsts".

Real-time interaction on the cloud: For the first time, a remote holographic meeting was realized in the Olympic Games, breaking the distance of time and space

2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
fearless frontier my world
You and I are as close as possible

Faced with Covid-19 restrictions and physical barriers at the Winter Olympics, even thousands of miles away, people-to-people meetings can be realized in a holographic form through the light of green technology.

Based on the AliRTC (Alibaba Cloud Audio and Video Communication) technology, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud has launched a new innovative solution on the cloud - "Alibaba Cloud ME", which is the first time in the history of the 100-year Olympic Games to span the physical space and create a multi-person remote The holographic meeting creates a "cloud gathering" moment between people. Through Alibaba Cloud's RTC network, combined with video ultra-high-definition technology, the solution finally achieves multi-person communication with hair-level full-size holographic engraving, blink-like ultra-low latency of 200 milliseconds, and rock-solid network transmission. The immersive and immersive real-time interaction between them allows more miracles to happen.

Inside and outside the Olympic Games, now and in the future, no matter how many people you want to meet, how far away customers, and how difficult it is for teams to get together, you can use Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud's Cloud ME to meet each other with the power of cloud gathering.

Content Immersion on the Cloud: The first time to use interactive virtual broadcasts at the Olympic Games to create immersive reports

2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
even outside the snow
can also be immersed in

As a brand-new cloud-directed interactive virtual studio technology, this is the first time since the Olympic Games in 100 years. It has been fully applied by CGTN in the reporters' online reporting of the Beijing Winter Olympics, creating an immersive experience in reporting the Olympic events.

The "virtual studio" of Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud has entered the Olympic Village during the Tokyo Olympics. The technical solution has been fully upgraded to achieve the effect of broadcasting and television broadcasting, and the access threshold has also been greatly reduced, greatly expanding the application scenarios of this technology. . At the same time, the GRTN and RTC networks are opened up on the link, and the technical capabilities of multi-camera and multi-view real-time synchronization are combined with the real-time microphone connection and remote broadcasting capabilities of RTC to realize the superposition of multi-layer virtual backgrounds of anchors and guests. , enhance the immersive live broadcast experience, and fully enhance the interactive effect to a new level.

The interactive virtual studio breaks the technical bottleneck in the industry. It is the first pure cloud-based real scene keying and confluence technology in China, and it is also the first domestic "end-cloud seamless connection" directing platform. Aocheng helps media to realize full-link production and broadcasting on the cloud, creating a new scenario for traditional news program production.

Intelligent production on the cloud: the first time the "AI cloud smart scissors" landed in the Olympic Games, creating aesthetic production

2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
The beauty of every volley
All are the humanistic aesthetics of AI

Looking back at the Olympic Games, the legend of ice and snow is being staged every day, and capturing the moment of occurrence, condensing the most exciting and moving sports and humanistic scenes, making "ice dance", "snow dance", "beauty of speed" and "beauty of volley" If the feast blooms, let the "golden moment" and "national general style" be eternal. The realization of all this comes from the intelligent production capability on the cloud provided by the AI editorial department of Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud - "AI Cloud Smart Cut".

As an intelligent production tool for themed collections, "AI Cloud Smart Clipper" can take into account practical effects, splendor, humanities, and aesthetics when making short videos of events, complete the intelligent content understanding of multiple events in real time, and intelligently automatically generate a large number of wonderful video materials, covering Multiple description dimensions such as arena action, event content, various shots, etc., generate rich collection materials of aesthetic themes.

Relying on the powerful streaming media processing capabilities and AI comprehensive capabilities of Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud, "AI Cloud Smart Cut" conducts multi-dimensional analysis of the video content at the end of each game, and based on the cross-video collection production capabilities, it can be used in 2- A large number of themed highlights videos were created within 3 minutes and distributed in real time. During the Winter Olympics, a total of 39,878 pieces of material were produced, covering over 200 games.

The Olympic Games will be fully clouded

The core information system of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has been 100% cloud-based, and the core information systems of the Olympic Games, such as event results, event broadcast, and information release, have been migrated to Alibaba Cloud. This is the first Winter Olympics to be fully cloud-based.

An important change in the full cloud deployment of the Winter Olympics is that Olympic broadcasts no longer rely solely on satellite transmission, but are brought to billions of viewers around the world through the "Olympic Broadcasting Cloud".

During the Tokyo Olympics, Alibaba helped the Olympic Organizing Committee realize the first use of cloud computing to support global live broadcasts in the history of the Olympic Games, which was hailed as another technological revolution after the first satellite broadcast of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. This year, Alibaba and Olympic Broadcasting Service Co., Ltd. jointly created the Olympic Broadcasting Cloud OBS Cloud, which provides a cloud-based solution for broadcasters, enabling high-definition TV live broadcasts and online live broadcasts to be broadcast on the cloud at the same time.

This has brought about two obvious changes: the increase in playback speed, enabling more than 6,000 hours of broadcast content with almost zero delay and zero freezes in all parts of the world and on various network platforms. In terms of picture quality, the cloud broadcast broke through the traditional 2k, and the whole process was broadcast in 4k ultra-high-definition format, and some important events were broadcast in 8k format, making the audience "immersive".

Full escort on the cloud: escorting the entire Olympic Games, silky interpretation of the Chinese romance of the opening and closing ceremonies

2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
The water of the Yellow River comes up from the sky, breaking the willows and turning them into poems and paintings
The silky room is full of Chinese romance guaranteed by video cloud

On the other hand, the top moment of this Winter Olympics is probably the opening and closing ceremonies like a humanistic legend. On February 4th, Ice Cube carved the five Olympic rings, and a drop of ice blue ink turned the water of the Yellow River; on February 20th, the willow branches said goodbye, which evolved into the poetry of sending and welcoming visitors from all over China. To reproduce this beautiful feast on the cloud, it is indispensable to protect the navigation.

The content of the Olympic Games has emerged in large quantities on many media platforms, and media processing based on the cloud is an important part. During the Winter Olympics, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud supports the media processing services of the main Olympic broadcasters throughout the entire process, and transcodes the Olympic videos on the cloud, so that the video content can be output efficiently and stably, and it can be distributed at high speed and played smoothly on multiple terminals.

In the early stage of preparations for the Winter Olympics, the Alibaba Cloud video cloud team focused on each link of the Winter Olympics video link, and conducted a large number of tests, verifications, and contingency plans to ensure the stability of the Olympic services to the greatest extent. During the entire Winter Olympics, video cloud technology was fully supported on the cloud to achieve zero abnormality in media processing services and extremely stable operation.

At the same time, Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud also guarantees the live broadcast of many important media platforms during the Winter Olympics, especially for the high-quality and high-traffic requirements of the opening and closing ceremonies, which provide transcoding, recording, Full-link services such as slicing, time-shifting, playback, and Guangmu monitoring system ensure extremely stable live broadcast operation, no frame rate jitter, and make every frame of the Winter Olympics extremely smooth, silky and perfect render.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is a cloud-based Winter Olympics. The comprehensive digitalization after going to the cloud runs through from internal management to external viewing, giving a new physical sensation and experience both inside and outside the Olympic venues. For the Olympics, this is a brand new starting point. For the video cloud, this is a brand new story on the cloud, and the story is unfinished.

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