On April 15th, the 61st China Higher Education Expo (HEEC, hereinafter referred to as "the Expo") grandly opened in Fuzhou. Sobey, under the theme of "A New Audiovisual Experience, Digital Intelligence Towards the Future, Making Knowledge Transfer More Precise and Efficient," showcased its newly upgraded smart education resource management platform, curriculum knowledge graph construction and integrated application, smart teaching quality assessment, teaching goal management, digital textbook integrated publishing, and digital media XR training lab solutions. Sobey also demonstrated its AI-driven Mingmou language model, Qizhi AI platform, video intelligent editing, and other technology platforms and supporting algorithms, opening a new chapter in the transformation of the education industry with new productivity.
Audiovisual Technology + Media Intelligence: Building New Infrastructure for Digital Transformation in Education
Currently, digital educational resources have become a new infrastructure for the education system, educational data has become a new production factor, and artificial intelligence will become a new generation of production tools and the core driving force for productivity transformation. At this Higher Education Expo, Sobey showcased its audiovisual processing technology and media intelligence technology in detail, demonstrating how they empower higher education, which attracted significant attention from the attendees.
Mingmou Language Model
Mingmou Language Model is a self-developed large language model for specific domains, launched by Sobey Media Intelligence Lab, leveraging its deep understanding of business and core technological accumulation in the field of artificial intelligence. Unlike general-purpose large models, Mingmou can efficiently inject high-density domain knowledge through data training and knowledge augmentation methods, meeting the teaching needs of professional disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. It can also provide private deployment for universities, meeting the interdisciplinary teaching needs of professional knowledge with their own advantages and characteristics. Based on the ML Ops machine learning pipeline, Mingmou has achieved standardized and automated management throughout its entire lifecycle, covering all aspects from model development, training, deployment to monitoring and continuous optimization.
Based on the powerful capabilities of Mingmou, the "AI Learning Companion" developed by Sobey can provide students with professional, accurate, and interactive personalized learning guidance, and effectively support students' deep learning and problem-solving in specific courses, majors, and disciplines through multi scenario applications such as knowledge Q&A, automatic question generation, question analysis, learning summary, and personalized recommendations.
In addition, Mingmou can also support the "AI teaching assistant" application, which allows teachers to independently build course knowledge bases and provide students with more accurate knowledge question-and-answer capabilities compared to general large models, reducing the pressure on teachers in routine teaching tasks such as answering questions, grading homework, and explaining basic concepts. The application also assists teachers in course design innovation and in-depth teaching research through AIGC capabilities, improving the quality and efficiency of lesson preparation.
Qizhi AI Platform
The Qizhi AI Platform is another important AI infrastructure provided by Sobey for universities. It can be used to manage and schedule various self-developed and third-party AI algorithms and applications. The platform integrates modular components such as deep learning, computer vision, knowledge graph, natural language processing, and speech processing, and uniformly calls high-performance hardware resources. It enables rapid algorithm development, training, and convenient model deployment, and provides fast, reliable, and efficient AI algorithm calling interfaces and related AI application support services, accelerating the application innovation and resource sharing of AI in teaching, scientific research, management and other fields.
Audiovisual Processing Technology
In the technology exhibition area, Sobey also demonstrated the deep application and cutting-edge exploration of its powerful audiovisual processing capabilities in the education field. Sobey's independently developed intelligent video editing technology can intelligently edit long video content into short video clips containing independent knowledge points, greatly improving the efficiency of teaching video production and video knowledge point segmentation.
A Brand-New Solution Makes Its Grand Debut
Equipped with the Mingmou Language Model, the "Zhiliao" Smart Education Resource Management Platform Gets an Upgrade
As an integrated platform for digital teaching resource management and knowledge system construction in universities, "Zhiliao" enables centralized management, co-construction, sharing, and optimized allocation of educational resources, while providing high-quality data support for model data training and knowledge base construction in the university field. Sobey showcased its capabilities based on Mingmou and multimodal intelligent processing technology. The platform enables structured processing of resources, represented by videos, knowledge point mining, and tag library construction, helping universities penetrate teaching resources and establish a resource system based on knowledge points. This is applied to various teaching scenarios such as personalized knowledge recommendation, knowledge graph construction, fragmented learning, and multi-dimensional course teaching, comprehensively supporting future-oriented teaching models.
Establish an infinitely connected knowledge network, comprehensively build and integrate the application of the "Knowledge Graph AI Course"
At the exhibition site, the Knowledge Graph AI course presented how to help universities and teachers deeply explore the inherent connections between knowledge in various disciplines, break the linear boundaries of traditional education, and build a three-dimensional and dynamic knowledge network. This solution not only supports real-time updates of course construction and keeping up with the times in learning content, but also enables personalized learning path customization through an intelligent recommendation system that accurately pushes related knowledge points based on students' learning trajectories and interest preferences; In addition, the platform offers achievement-statistics functionality that quantifies learning-process data from a knowledge-point perspective, providing data support for professional training outcomes.
Applying AI intelligent evaluation, 'Smart Teaching Quality Assessment' safeguards teaching quality
Teaching supervision is an effective means to ensure stable teaching order and improve teaching quality in schools. At this year's High Tech Expo, Sobey showcased a data-driven intelligent teaching supervision quality monitoring platform that supports online supervision and evaluation involving multiple stakeholders. With the help of AI intelligent monitoring and data statistical analysis mechanisms, it optimizes supervision efficiency and accuracy, stimulates teaching enthusiasm, and effectively achieves continuous improvement and optimization of education quality.
Partnering with Knowledge Graphs to Shape a Future-Oriented "Digital Textbook Integration and Publishing" Solution
Facing the ever-increasing demand for digital textbooks, Sobey has created a new textbook publishing solution based on knowledge graphs and integrating multimodal content. This solution helps universities achieve interdisciplinary development and the integration of digital education. Furthermore, through publication marketing analysis, it will help publishing institutions make precise operational decisions, providing comprehensive digital transformation services for the education publishing field.
A New Virtual-Real Experience: The Charm of Digital Training On-Site
While the Sobey Solutions exhibition area attracted attention, the on-site digital media XR training lab also provided a number of unique sharing sessions for the audience. Associate Professor Wang Su from the Department of Tourism Management at Sichuan Engineering Vocational and Technical University used XR technology to guide the audience through the historical scenes of Sanxingdui from the perspective of tourism teaching, vividly narrating the mysterious ancient Shu civilization. A Sobey XR technology expert shared how XR technology can be deeply integrated with educational scenarios, providing a vivid introduction with case studies. In addition, Associate Professor Liu Nian, who has rich teaching experience and helped Hubei Academy of Fine Arts achieve outstanding results in the National Internet+ Competition, will lead her team to share how to use Sobey's XR training program to complete the exquisite presentation of the artwork "Tanghuang".
Today, Sobey also showcased innovative applications of AI digital humans in education. Based on technologies such as natural language processing, graphics and image processing, speech conversion, and digital human-driven systems, users can easily generate a digital avatar of a teacher with a single click by inputting text and choreographing actions, efficiently producing high-quality courses and micro-lessons. At the Sobey booth, the Meta.Lux immersive virtual live streaming platform also attracted significant attention. This platform integrates scene templates, real-time keying, 3D graphics, animation effects, and other functions, significantly lowering the barrier to entry for shooting and live streaming, and providing students with an immersive learning experience. It can be applied to scenarios such as lecture live streaming and real-time Q&A sessions.
Case Sharing: Comprehensive Support for the Digital Upgrade of Universities
In the case exhibition area, Sobey showcased its in-depth cooperation with universities such as Sichuan University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Yunnan University, Chang'an University, and Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The exhibition demonstrated Sobey's latest practical achievements in achieving unified teaching resource management, constructing diversified applications of knowledge graphs, and personalized knowledge recommendation in areas such as digital education upgrades. It also explored new talent training models that are comprehensive, multi-level, and geared towards the actual needs of the industry.
At this year's Higher Education Expo, Sobey fully showcased its latest achievements in applying cutting-edge technologies to the education field, while also depicting a new landscape for educational model transformation and development. In the future, Sobey will continue to leverage its strong capabilities in underlying general-purpose technologies and audiovisual fields, contributing to the digital transformation of education through deep integration of technological innovation and education.
