Video understanding

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Powered by Alibaba Cloud's deep learning technology, video understanding analyzes video content to generate engaging clips or frames for video covers. This helps boost click-through rates and enhance the user experience.

Service activation

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Features

The Alibaba Cloud Vision AI Platform provides the following video understanding features:

Category

Feature

Description

video understanding

video cover

Analyzes an input video, extracts engaging content, and returns one or more video covers.

video shot segmentation

Segments an input video into shots and returns the timestamps for each shot change.

video OCR

Recognizes text in videos across various scenarios, including news, film and TV, entertainment, and sports. It can identify text in Simplified and Traditional Chinese, English, and sports scores. This feature supports multiple text types, such as standard subtitles, fixed captions, scrolling text, text in natural scenes, vertical text, and stylized fonts.

video splitting

Analyzes a video's shots and topics to divide it into smaller segments. It returns the boundary timestamps and a summary for each segment but does not return the actual video clips.

video quality assessment

Evaluates the quality of an input video in two modes: basic assessment and artifact assessment. It outputs both a summary report and a detailed report.

Use cases

Common use cases for video understanding include:

  • Highlight video recommendations

    Use the intelligent video cover feature to quickly select high-quality, representative covers for both long and short videos. This enhances the visual experience, helps users filter content faster, and increases user retention.

  • Compelling video covers

    Generate compelling covers for your video content to highlight its most engaging moments, increasing click-through rates and user watch time.

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