I-Corps: Cloud-Based Mobile Video Encoding Service

该团队计划推出的产品是一款基于云的视频编码和转码服务，具有卓越的性能、灵活性和安全功能。使用这项服务的客户将通过网络门户(或API)上传视频文件，以编码/转码为他们选择的适合在移动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功能包括：(A)快速的编码/转码速度和卓越的视频质量，(B)卓越的性价比，以及(C)支持多种输入和输出视频格式的能力。拟议的云服务的实施将采用Map/Reduce和Hadoop等分布式计算技术，以实现视频处理的显著并行性，从而有效利用计算资源和更快的处理时间。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。该产品将通过提供按需和低成本的视频转换服务，为包括内容制作人、广播公司和移动服务提供商在内的各种企业简化视频编码和转码，目前这些服务需要现场设备和相关资本成本。如果成功，云视频技术将使移动内容交付得到改进，成本更低，使互联网和无线终端用户的广泛领域受益。

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.