In the 7th CISM World Military Games, the Archive & MCAI system independently developed by Shanghai Media Tech (SMT) was successfully applied, which became a highlight of the Wuhan Military Games IBC media content production. This is also the first formal application of AI artificial intelligence technology in the production of large-scale international comprehensive sports events. During the Wuhan Military Games, President of the International Military Sports Council, Herve Piccirillo, and Moreno, Director of OBS Engineering, Jimenez， Director of OBS Broadcasting System visited the SMT team often and made an in-depth communication with SMT technical team members.
The system is completely designed to match the standards and production process of the Olympic Games. During the competition, it will include all the live broadcast signals of the live venues and the 11-channel ENG return signal. It has 4,000 hours of HD material storage capacity and has both Wisdom AI production and field cataloging, intelligent AI search and download functions, and more than 20 non-linear editing workstations, supporting 52 minutes of daily production, and editing and broadcasting. The SMT team combines the actual needs of large-scale events with artificial intelligence AI applications such as face recognition and speech recognition. Independently developed and completed the system installation, equipment configuration and operation debugging of Archive & MCAI, ensuring the successful application of this product in the Military Games.
The Archive & MCAI system realizes the unified management of all the materials of the event, and uses the network cloud platform technology to upload the event materials to the cloud ("IBC on the cloud"). As long as there is authorization from the anchoring agency, the rights-holding broadcaster can access, preview and download any material through the network at any time and any place. The overall application of this technology completely solves the former inconvenience that the copyright owner or the reporter can only take the hard disk or Blu-ray media to copy on the site, which greatly improves the working efficiency of the media. During the Military Games, IBC provided this service to more than 20 countries and regions around the world. A total of 80 accounts have been created, and the number of downloads for a single short film has exceeded 2,000.
Another highlight of the system is the combination of AI and traditional technology such as smart production, field cataloging, and smart search and download. The system uses face recognition technology to add tag data such as characters to achieve the function of automatic cataloging and traditional cataloging. Meanwhile, the system also supports text search, voice search, portrait image search and portrait recognition search, which greatly improves the search efficiency and accuracy for journalists, and also provides great convenience for material downloading and secondary editing.
