iQiyi Technology Product Team 2020 Year in Review: Highlights, Top Articles, Influential Works, Conference Papers, and AI Competitions

In 2020, iQiyi's technology product team published 127 articles, averaging over 10 per month, covering a wide range of technical topics.

The team's most popular articles included an overview of MySQL high‑availability solutions, practices in microservices standard architecture, a full‑link automated monitoring platform, high‑concurrency network coroutine applications, and the network traffic analysis engine QNSM for cross‑zone security.

Among the most influential works were AI‑driven classic drama restoration (boosting repair efficiency by ~500×), iQiyi becoming the first domestic platform to launch AV1 video coding, and AI‑assisted 2D‑to‑3D conversion technology.

The team also celebrated four papers accepted at top international conferences: ACM MM 2020 (Cartoon Face Recognition benchmark), AAAI 2020 (Ultrafast Video Attention Prediction with coupled knowledge distillation), ECCV 2020 (Boundary Content Graph Neural Network for temporal action proposals), and WACV 2021 (Line Art Correlation Matching Feature Transfer Network for automatic animation colorization).

Additionally, iQiyi hosted two AI‑related competitions in 2020: the iCartoonFace challenge jointly with IJCAI, and the multi‑speaker multi‑style voice cloning challenge (M2VoC) held at ICASSP 2021, aiming to advance cartoon character recognition and voice cloning research.

Finally, iQiyi highlighted how technology empowers the entire entertainment content pipeline—from creation and production to marketing, playback, and commercialization.