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Release Notes and Announcements
Release Notes
Announcements
Billing Rule Change Notice on Advanced Image Compression Feature©2013-2022 Tencent Cloud. All rights reserved.

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Release Notes and Announcements
Release Notes：

Last updated 2024-01-31 16:33:35

December 2022
UpdateDescription

Release
Date

Documentation

Launched theimage colorizing
featureThis feature precisely restores the colors of complex
scenes to colorize old photos.

202212-12

Image
Colorizing

Launched thesmart image
cropping featureThis feature intelligently analyzes the main content of animage and then crops the image to fit different screen
sizes of PCs, phones, and TVs.

202212-12

Smart Image
Cropping

Launched theimage
enhancement
featureThe feature intelligently analyzes blurred and noisy lowquality photos to enhance the definition.

202212-12

Image
Enhancement

Launched thevideo matting
featureThis feature precisely recognizes and extracts the humanbody in a video to return the result video of the humanbody area.

202212-12

Video Matting

November 2022
UpdateDescription

Launched the fileprocessing
featureNew file processing APIs are launched, including file hashcalculation, file decompression, and multi-file zipping.

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ReleaseDate202211-21

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October 2022
UpdateDescription

Supported automaticallybacking up live streams tobuckets during live stream
moderation

Supported fast speech
recognition

Release
Date

Documentation
Submitting
Live Stream

The live stream dump feature is launched to2022-

meet the needs of live content backup.

10-28

Moderation
Job

Based on the existing speech recognition job
mechanism, a new fast recognition

2022-Speech

10-20

recognition

configuration is added to support higher
recognition efficiency.

September 2022
UpdateDescription

Release
Date

Documentation

Supported
creatingbatch dataprocessing

Based on the existing data workflow and job mechanism, you
can create batch data processing jobs such as audio/video
transcoding by specifying the file list or inventory file.

202209-06

Jobjobs
Supported
adaptive
bitrate foraudio/video
transcoding

You don't need to care about video encoding parameters, as
the system will automatically get a better encoding quality witha lower bitrate.

2022-Submitting
Video

09-06

Transcoding
Job

Supported
TDMQ/CMQ
messagequeues forworkflow
callback

Data workflow callback configuration supports TDMQ/CMQ
message queues.

202209-06

Queues andCallbacks

Supported
accelerated

The accelerated transcoding capability is added in audio/video
transcoding jobs, which is suitable for media scenarios with

202209-06

SubmittingVideo©2013-2022 Tencent Cloud. All rights reserved.

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video
transcoding

long duration, large files, and high requirements on transcoding
timeliness as well as UHD video production scenarios with highdata volumes. It can deliver a 30 times faster transcoding
performance.

Transcoding
Job

August 2022
UpdateDescription

Release
Date

Documentation

Launched
the imagerepairfeatureRecognizes the entity in a specified area in the image to berepaired, and fills in the image texture similar to the surroundingarea. It is suitable for commercial photography post-production,social entertainment content production, and other scenarios.

August15,
2022

Image Repair

August15,
2022

Image Matting

August15,
2022

Logo
Recognition

Documentation

Launched
the imagematting
featureLaunched
the logorecognition
featureRecognizes the product entity in an image and removes
background information to obtain a product material with atransparent background. It is suitable for intelligent generation ofe-commerce posters, personalized product recommendation,and other features.

Recognizes the e-commerce logo in an image, and returns thename, coordinates, and confidence score of the logo in the image

July 2022
UpdateDescription

ReleaseDate

Launched the text toYou can convert text to natural-sounding andJuly 1,speech featuresmooth speeches in a variety of voices.

2022

Launched the videoYou can perform no-reference image quality

July 1,Video Quality

quality scoring featureassessment (NR-IQA) on videos.

2022

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June 2022
UpdateDescription

Launched the custom risk
library feature for content
moderation

Launched the live stream
moderation feature

You can customize a risk library to specify theRelease
Date
June

content to be blocked as needed.

30,
2022

You can moderate live streams to detect non-Junecompliant content, including pornographic,advertising, and illegal content.

30,
2022
June

Documentation
Image
Moderation
ResultReportingLive broadcast
review

Launched the audio noise
cancellation feature

You can remove noise from audios/videos.

30,
2022

Updated the video

The system can recognize tags such as scene,
object, and person and return the time andJune
30,

coordinates.

2022

The system can recognize abnormal images, suchas images with TS video streams, to prevent

June
17,

Submit a ticketforhotlinking.

2022

consultation.

tagging feature

Launched the abnormal
image detection feature

Audio Noise
Cancellation

Video tagging

May 2022
UpdateDescriptionRelease
Date

Documentation

Launched theYou can report moderation results that are not as expected.

May 25,

Image2022

ModerationResultmoderation
resultreportingfeatureReportingText
ModerationResult
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Optimized

The file-to-HTML conversion feature allows you to pass inthe file
preview

parameters through JSON to the download link to directly
adjust the advanced page settings. The printing prevention

featurefeature is added.

May 15,2022

GettingStartedApril 2022
ReleaseUpdateDescription

Supported policy-level
data for content

The system can display the data such as
moderation details and statistics by moderation

April21,Setting
Moderation

moderation

policy.

2022

PolicyDate

Documentation

March 2022
ReleaseUpdateDescription

Launched theSmart toolbox is an easy-to-use data processing tool
integrating both COS and CI features, including image

2022-

Smart Toolbox

compression, video transcoding, file preview, and AI-

03-21

User Guide

smart toolbox
featureDate

Documentation

enabled content recognition.

Launched

You can use the custom function processing feature ofcommon featuretemplates forSCF and data processing workflow together to write corecode logic in order to flexibly implement your businesscustom functions

needs while reducing your development costs.

Started the beta
test of the video

The digital watermark technology hides images and text indigital (blind)the video as watermarks without compromising the video

watermarkfeatureintegrity and watch experience.

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202203-21

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February 2022
ReleaseUpdateDescription

Launched the media
processing feature inThe media processing feature is launched inFebruaryFrankfurt region (eu-frankfurt).

17, 2022

Launched the H.265
video transcoding

H.265 is a more advanced video codec than H.264.
It makes videos smaller to save the accessFebruary

Videofeaturebandwidth.

17, 2022

Transcoding

Launched the top
speed codec

The TESHD transcoding feature improves thesubjective image quality of a video at a lower bitrate.

February

Top speedcodectranscoding feature

It makes videos smaller and clearer.

Frankfurt regionDate17, 2022

Documentation

Workflowtranscoding

October 2021
UpdateSupported theblindwatermarking
feature in all
regions

DescriptionThe blind watermarking feature is available in all public cloudregions.

Release
Date

October
21,
2021

Documentation

Blindwatermark

Launched themedia
processing -The audio/video segmentation feature can divide an audio orvideo into several segments of the specified duration. It

audio/video
segmentation

allows you to change the container format of the audio orvideo segments during segmentation.

October
14,
2021

Audio/Video
Segmentation

featureLaunched themedia

The super resolution feature reconstructs the details andlocal features of a video by recognizing its content andOctober
14,

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superresolution

through a series of low-resolution video images. It can beused in combination with video enhancement to remaster oldfeature

videos.

August 2021
UpdateDescription

Release
Date

Documentation

Launched themedia

Media processing provides a series of features,processing video

including details enhancement, color enhancement,and SDR to HDR conversion, to enhance the video

enhancement
featureimage quality for better visual effect.

Launched themedia
processing custom
functionprocessingfeature

August3, 2021

WorkflowJobTemplate

August3, 2021

Custom Function
Processing

If the existing services or features of media
processing cannot meet your needs, you can use thecustom function processing feature of SCF to write
core code logic in order to flexibly implement yourbusiness needs while reducing your development
costs.

Launched themedia
processing video

The HLS standard encryption capability is added toensure the security of your video data.

August3, 2021encryption
featureHow to Prevent Video
Disclosure via HLS
Encryption

June 2021Update

Description

Launched theTESHD transcoding makes videos smaller and©2013-2022 Tencent Cloud. All rights reserved.

ReleaseDate
June

Documentation
WorkflowJobTemplate

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media processing -clearer. It delivers a better visual experience with

26,

TESHD

guaranteed low network resource usage.

2021

transcoding
featureLaunched the
media processing -HDR-to-SDR converts the dynamic range ofvideos in the cloud. It makes the image details of

HDR-to-SDR

the output video as close as possible to those offeature

the original video.

Launched theJune
26,
2021This feature recognizes and aggregates the video

June

content, postures, and scenes to quickly clip
them professionally.

26,
2021

This feature separates the voice from thebackground sound in a video material to generateJune

a new independent audio file. Then, you can

26,

apply artistic processing of other styles to thematerial.

2021

media processing HLS adaptive

Adaptive multi-bitrate video files can begenerated quickly for different video players,

June
26,

compression
featurebrowsers, and distribution platforms.

2021

media processing video montage
featureLaunched the
media processing voice/soundseparation feature

WorkflowJobTemplate

WorkflowJobTemplate

WorkflowJobTemplate

Launched theWorkflow

April 2021
UpdateDescription

Launched the text

The text moderation feature can check text content formoderation

pornographic, non-compliant, illegal, advertising, andfeature

abusive information.

Supported fullmoderation for

You can create a full moderation job to batch moderate
existing image, video, audio, and text files in a bucket at aexisting datatime.

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Release
Date

Documentation

April 6,Setting Text

2021

Moderation
Setting

April 6,2021

Historical DataModerationJob

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Announcements
Billing Rule Change Notice on Advanced
Image Compression Feature：

Last updated 2024-01-31 16:33:35
Dear user,
We will change the usage calculation method and billing rules for CI's advanced image compression feature,effective August 1, 2023 (Beijing time). The details are as follows:
Usage calculation methodFeature

Advanced image
compression(HEIF/TPG/AVIF)

BeforeAfter

Usage is calculated by
the number of calls,
regardless of the image
specification.

Usage is calculated by the number of calls for each
image specification, which is defined based on image
resolution as follows:
Small image: Resolution ≤ 800 x 600
Medium image: 800 x 600 < Resolution ≤ 1920 x 1080
Large image: 1920 x 1080 < Resolution ≤ 4096 x 2160
Extra large image: Resolution > 4096 × 2160

Billing rules
After the change, the system will charge you by image specification according to different weighting factors
for the advanced image compression feature. The billing cycle is still monthly billing. The detailed billing rules are asfollows:

FeaturePublished Price(Before)(USD/1,000 times)

After
Published Price(USD/1,000 times)

Specification
Small image
MediumAdvanced image
compression(HEIF/TPG)

image
0.015

Large image

image0.045©2013-2022 Tencent Cloud. All rights reserved.

Factor
0.3
10.015Extra large

Advanced image

Weighting

0.045

Small image

3
15
0.1

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compression (AVIF)
Mediumimage

0.3

Large image

1

Extra large
image

5

Billing example
The following example helps you better understand the billing rule changes.
Assume that you used advanced image compression (AVIF) 800,000 times last month, with 600,000 times for small
images and 200,000 times for medium images.
Fees (Before)
800 (thousand times) x 0.045 (USD/1,000times) = 36 USD©2013-2022 Tencent Cloud. All rights reserved.

Fees (After)
600 (thousand times) x 0.045 (USD/1,000 times) x 0.1 (factor) +200 (thousand times) x 0.045 (USD/1,000 times) x 0.3 (factor) =5.4 USD

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