How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Video Streaming

It is time for video streaming platforms to adopt the latest technologies to catch up and meet the viewers' growing demands.

FREMONT, CA: Video content is all around the Internet. The world has seen multiple techniques that can assist scaling, enhance the user experience, and reduce latency in video streaming. The vast amount of data streaming every day on the Internet presents hurdles, such as buffering issues. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help overcome several of these challenges by compressing videos. This technology also helps with monitoring social media for privacy or content violations. Read on to learn how AI is revamping video streaming with innovations.

Super-Resolution

Artificial Intelligence has been transforming all kinds of industries, and video streaming is no exception. AI models can learn how to create a high-resolution image from a low-resolution image by learning from different images. This method of creating a high-res image from a low-res image is called Super-Resolution. This is possible because the AI has been trained on data of images, and it has an understanding of how to upscale the image when a new image has been offered. This technology offers the capability to send a video at 480p but watch on the client device at, say, 1080p.

P2P Streaming

Video streaming follows a customer-server model. The content is provided from edge locations called CDN, which cache the content from the server. The client devices fetch the content from these CDN to start playing the video. Video streaming through CDN has a few limitations. Adding a Peer-to-Peer layer over the conventional CDN reduces the load on the main CDN by distributing the content from neighboring peers, which act like a CDN themselves, thus bringing the edge closer to the user.

Per-title Encoding

Video encoding is the process of compressing video with the codecs like H.264, which take benefit of common information present across consecutive frames and thus only gathering the newly added information in the frame. To deal with several network conditions and volatile internet connections, the video content is encoded at different resolutions and is intelligently switched. This technique is called Adaptive Bitrate(ABR).

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