Kingsoft Cloud Smart High Definition
Kingsoft Cloud Smart High Definition (KSHD) integrates a variety of vision artificial intelligence (AI) and encoding technologies. KSHD identifies video content by using deep neural networks and then intelligently encodes videos by adjusting encoding parameters, in pursuit of optimal watching experience. KSHD is applicable to a variety of video processing scenarios. It helps you save bandwidth in video transmission and provides better watching experience
Key Advantages
Low Bandwidth Cost
KSHD encodes videos to smaller sizes based on technologies such as video preprocessing, smart bitrate control (SBC), region of interest (ROI), and parameter optimization. KSHD can reduce video transmission bandwidth by 30% to 60%. This significantly reduces the bandwidth cost for video content providers.
HD Experience
KSHD improves the image quality of a video before it encodes the video to provide optimal HD experience. KSHD uses machine learning and image processing algorithms to remove blurs, noises, and color blocks in the video. This greatly improves the mean opinion score (MOS) and the Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion (VMAF) score of the video.
Smart Bitrate Control
KSHD uses neural networks to analyze the content of the video before encoding the video. During this process, KSHD makes predictions for subsequent frames. Then, KSHD intelligently optimizes the encoding parameters based on the analysis and predictions. This ensures the image quality of the video while reducing the bitrate by 20%.
Refined Processing
KSHD adopts the ROI technology to enhance and refine the image quality of videos. KSHD classifies content in each frame, and then processes the objects of interest and the background separately based on the preference of human vision. This enables KSHD to produce videos where the objects are more noticeable against the background.
Features
Scenario Identification
KSHD classifies videos into different scenarios, such as sports, fashion shows, or gaming, and then uses different encoding templates based on each scenario.
Visual Focus Capture
KSHD identifies the region on the video image that viewers will focus, and then enhances the image quality of the region. This significantly improves the visual experience.
Smart Encoding
KSHD uses neural networks to analyze and predict video content. Then, KSHD intelligently adjusts video encoding parameters based on the results. This ensures higher precision and efficiency, and avoids the waste of encoding resources.
High Image Quality
KSHD uses image processing algorithms and convolutional neural networks to enhance image quality by reducing noises and improving the image definition.
Releases
1
KSHD for VOD V1.0 Launched
KSHD for VOD V1.0 is applicable to on-demand streaming scenarios in fields such as gaming, fashion shows, entertainment shows, and sports.
2019-04-26
New Products
2
Optimization for Football Match Videos
Improvements are made for football match videos, including deblurring, color enhancement, noise reduction, and sharpening.
2019-05-31
New Features
3
KSHD for VOD V2.0 Launched
KSHD for VOD V2.0 uses the ROI technology to classify content and identify text in video frames, and then processes the identified objects and background separately.
2019-07-26
New Releases
4
Algorithm Optimization
The algorithms for noise reduction, deblurring, and sharpening are updated.
2019-08-30
Experience Enhancements
5
KSHD for Live Streaming V1.0 Launched
KSHD for Live Streaming V1.0 is applicable to live streaming scenarios such as gaming, fashion shows, entertainment shows, sports, and online learning.
2020-04-28
New Features
Scenarios
Integration with Kingsoft Cloud video services
KSHD works with Kingsoft Cloud Media Cloud Transcoder (KMCT) to meet your requirements, such as quick access, cost-effectiveness, and service scalability.
Quick access
After you activate KMCT and KSHD, you can call APIs provided by KMCT to transcode videos in KSHD.
Cost saving
KSHD reduces the cost of video distribution traffic by 20% to 40%.
Service scalability
KSHD allows you to scale out service resources at any time as your business grows.