I-Corps: Cloud-Based Mobile Video Encoding Service

该团队旨在推向市场的产品是一种基于云的视频编码和转码服务，具有上级性能、灵活性和安全性。使用该服务的客户将通过网络门户（或API）上传视频文件，以编码/转码成适合于在移动的设备上显示的格式和比特率。计划中的云视频产品的差异化特征包括：（a）快速编码/转码速度和上级视频质量，（B）出色的成本/性能，以及（c）支持各种输入和输出视频格式的能力。建议的云端服务将采用Map/Reduce和Hadoop等分布式计算技术，在视频处理方面实现显著的并行性，从而有效利用计算资源和加快处理时间。该项目将开发的云视频原型预计将产生具有巨大收入潜力的商业服务。该产品将为内容制作商、广播公司和移动的服务提供商等各种企业简化视频编码和转码，提供按需和低成本的视频转换服务，而目前这种服务需要现场设备和相关资本成本。如果成功的话，云视频技术将因此能够改进和降低成本的移动的内容交付，使广泛的互联网和无线终端用户受益。

The product the team aims to bring to market is a cloud-based video encoding and transcoding service with superior performance, flexibility and security features. Customers using this service would upload video files through a web portal (or API) for encoding/transcoding into their choice of formats and bit-rates suitable for display on mobile devices. The differentiating features of the planned cloud video product include: (a) fast encoding/transcoding speed with superior video quality, (b) excellent cost/performance, and (c) the ability to support a wide variety of input and output video formats. Implementation of the proposed cloud service will employ distributed computing technologies such as Map/Reduce and Hadoop to achieve significant parallelism in video processing, resulting in efficient use of computing resources and faster processing time. The cloud video prototype to be developed in this project is expected to result in a commercial service with significant revenue potential. The product will simplify video encoding and transcoding for a variety of enterprises including content producers, broadcasters and mobile service providers, by providing on-demand and low-cost video conversion services that currently require on-site equipment with related capital costs. If successful, the cloud video technology will thus enable improved and lower cost mobile content delivery benefiting a broad cross section of Internet and wireless end-users.