Automated review uses deep learning to detect prohibited content in videos, thumbnails, and titles. It analyzes speech, text, and visuals to identify pornography, terrorism, politically sensitive material, ads, logos, and undesirable scenes.
How automated and manual review interact
The final moderation result is determined by both the automated and manual review results. The manual review result always overrides the automated result.
Only files in the Normal state can be played. Files in the Flagged or Reviewing state can be played only in the ApsaraVideo VOD console or through a security IP for moderation. Playback URLs for these files cannot be obtained through an API or SDK. However, previously distributed playback URLs remain valid.
Review types
| Review type | Purpose | Result categories |
|---|---|---|
| Pornography | Detect pornographic or suggestive content in media files | Normal, pornography, suggestive |
| Terrorism and politically sensitive content | Detect terrorism-related or politically sensitive content in media files | Normal, bloody, explosion and smoke, special attire, special logo, weapon, politically sensitive, fighting, crowd, march, car accident scene, flag, landmark |
| Ad detection | Detect ads and non-compliant text in videos and images | Normal, text with politically sensitive content, text with pornographic content, text with abusive content, text with terrorism-related content, text with prohibited content, text with other spam content, spam ad, QR code, Mini Program code, other ad |
| Undesirable Content Detection | Detect black screens, black bars, dark scenes, Picture-in-Picture (PiP), smoking, and in-car live streaming | Normal, no content in image (such as a black screen or white screen), PiP, smoking, in-car live streaming |
| Logo detection | Detect logos such as TV station logos and trademarks | Normal, contains controlled logo, contains trademark |
| Audio Anti-spam | Detect voice spam in videos and audio, including ads, politically sensitive content, and terrorism-related content | Normal, contains spam, ad, politically sensitive, terrorism-related, abusive, pornographic, flooding, prohibited, meaningless, custom (such as a hit on a custom keyword) |
Limitations
Regional availability
| Region | Supported review types |
|---|---|
| China (Shanghai) | All review types |
| China (Beijing) | All review types |
| Singapore | Pornography, Terrorism and politically sensitive content, Undesirable Content Detection only |
Input constraints
| Constraint | Limit |
|---|---|
| Custom automated review templates | Up to 20 |
| Thumbnails per review | Up to 5 |
| Title and live comment length | Up to 128 bytes |
| Video duration | Up to 6 hours |
| Image file size (API) | Up to 20 MB |
| Image height or width (API) | Up to 30,000 px |
| Image total pixels (API) | Up to 250 million px |
| Recommended minimum image resolution (API) | 256 x 256 px (lower resolution may affect review quality) |
Review standards
The review standards comply with the laws and regulations of China, including but not limited to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, the Cybersecurity Law, the Measures for the Administration of Internet Information Services, the Measures for the Security Protection Administration of the International Networking of Computer Information Networks, the Provisions on the Administration of Deep Synthesis in Internet Information Services, and the Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services.
Review result storage
Image resources in the automated review results are stored in free ApsaraVideo VOD storage for 2 weeks only. After 2 weeks, they are automatically deleted.
Billing
Automated review is a paid service billed by the total duration of reviewed videos. For billing details, submit a ticket.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, make sure that you have:
An activated ApsaraVideo VOD service. See Activate ApsaraVideo VOD
Audio or video files uploaded to the ApsaraVideo VOD media asset library. See Media upload
Step 1: (Optional) Configure an automated review template
ApsaraVideo VOD provides a preset system template that is used by default. Create a custom template if the preset template does not meet your needs.
The preset template cannot be modified or deleted. Its configuration is:
Review Type: Terrorism and politically sensitive content, Pornography
Review Scope: Cover, Name, Video
Review Content: Image (video frames)
Up to 20 custom automated review templates are supported.
Step 2: (Optional) Configure event notifications
Before starting an automated review job, configure event notifications to receive callback messages about the job status and results. For more information, see Callback settings.
Enable the following event notification types:
Video Analysis Completed: After receiving the Audio/Video Analysis Complete notification, call SubmitAIMediaAuditJob to start a review job.
AI Processing Completed: Receive the Automated Review Complete notification when the review finishes.
Step 3: Start an automated review job
Start a review either automatically upon upload or manually after upload.
Step 4: View review results
Image resources in the automated review results are stored in free ApsaraVideo VOD storage for 2 weeks only. After 2 weeks, they are automatically deleted.
If event notifications are configured, the Automated Review Complete callback message contains the review result details.