Boosting Playback with iQIYI’s AI Gesture and Intel OpenVINO

Background and Motivation : Users often find AI‑based air‑gesture control appealing, but inaccurate recognition or delayed response can turn the experience into a gimmick. The industry focuses on two challenges: precise gesture identification and instant command response.

Collaboration and Implementation : iQIYI, after launching AI gestures on its PAD platform, is extending the feature to PC clients in partnership with Intel. By integrating an optimized gesture‑recognition AI model with Intel® OpenVINO, the system ensures stable, high‑efficiency inference on PCs equipped with 10th‑gen CPUs or newer (e.g., Lenovo Yoga S950) running Windows 10. Users simply update the iQIYI PC client to the latest version to access the enhanced experience.

OpenVINO Overview : OpenVINO (Open Visual Inference and Neural Network Optimization) is an edge AI inference engine that merges computer graphics and deep‑learning inference for advanced visual applications. It allows developers to optimize AI models from various frameworks and efficiently schedule workloads across local CPUs and GPUs, maximizing performance and minimizing latency.

Technical Benefits : The optimized AI model enables accurate detection of multiple gestures and simultaneous, correct playback responses. By leveraging a hybrid CPU‑GPU compute strategy, GPU resources handle intensive inference tasks, alleviating CPU load and stabilizing overall system performance. This results in doubled inference speed and highly responsive, precise gesture control.

AV1 Codec Integration : Beyond gesture control, iQIYI adopts the next‑generation open‑source AV1 video codec, which delivers high‑quality video at lower bandwidth. GPU‑accelerated decoding of AV1 allows smoother playback of high‑resolution content when network conditions are stable.

Operational Impact : Utilizing local compute for gesture recognition reduces reliance on cloud processing, lowering operational costs and easing server load. Building on the Intel OpenVINO platform, iQIYI plans to deploy additional AI capabilities across more devices, further enhancing the “Frame‑Rich Cinema” experience and offering richer, more convenient entertainment.