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Intelligent Media Services:SearchMediaByFace

Last Updated:Aug 06, 2026

Searches for media assets by face image (coarse search). Accepts a face image as input and returns information about media assets that contain the person.

Operation description

To use the intelligent media asset search feature of Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Media Services or to consult about related issues, search for DingTalk group (30415005038) to join the Intelligent Media Services multimodal search customer support group and contact us.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

ice:SearchMediaByFace

get

*All Resource

*

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

PageNo

integer

No

The page number. Default value: 1.

1

PageSize

integer

No

The number of entries per page. Default value: 10. Maximum value: 50.

10

EntityId

string

No

The entity ID.

2d3bf1e35a1e42b5ab338d701efa****

PersonImageUrl

string

Yes

The URL of the face image.

https://****.oss-cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com/input/huangxuan****.jpg

FaceSearchToken

string

Yes

The token used to identify paginated results under the same search condition. Use this parameter together with the FaceSearchToken parameter in the refined search operation.

zxtest-huangxuan-2023-3-7-V1

SearchLibName

string

No

The name of the search library.

test1

MediaType

string

No

The media asset type. Valid values:

  • image: image

  • video: video

video

Namespace

string

No

The namespace.

name-1

CustomFilters

string

No

The custom filter. JSON string. Supported fields include integer field intField1 and string fields strField1 and strField2. Each field supports only one matching mode. Filters on different fields are combined with an AND relationship.

  • Exact match, such as {"intField1":12,"strField1":"abc"}

  • Multi-value match, such as {"intField1":[12,13],"strField1":["abc","cd"]}

  • Range match, such as {"intField1":{"gte":12,"lte":13}}

{"intField1":{"gte":12,"lte":13},"strField2":["cd","de"],"strField1":"abc"}

UtcCreate

string

No

The creation time, in millisecond-precision timestamp. gte specifies greater than or equal to, and lte specifies less than or equal to.

  • Range, such as {"gte":1761205662998,"lte":1771205662998}

{"gte":1761205662998,"lte":1771205662998}

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

Schema of Response

RequestId

string

The request ID.

7CA7D615-CFB1-5437-9A12-2D185C3EE6CB

Success

string

Indicates whether the operation was successful. Valid values: true: The operation was successful. false: The operation failed.

true

Code

string

The return code.

200

MediaInfoList

array<object>

The list of media assets that match the search criteria.

object

The media asset information list.

MediaId

string

The media asset ID.

3b187b3620c8490886cfc2a9578c****

Total

integer

The total number of media assets that match the search criteria.

163

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "RequestId": "7CA7D615-CFB1-5437-9A12-2D185C3EE6CB",
  "Success": "true",
  "Code": "200",
  "MediaInfoList": [
    {
      "MediaId": "3b187b3620c8490886cfc2a9578c****"
    }
  ],
  "Total": 163
}

Error codes

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Release notes

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