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By Rem Darbinyan

Nov 11, 2021

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Logo detection is a technology that identifies logos in images and videos. The technology’s object detection algorithm enables detecting where a particular object is, either on an image or a video. As an input, the application programming interface (API) takes an image and then outputs logo coordinates. By doing so, it finds all the logos in an image or a video and returns their locations. Logo detection has many useful applications across different sectors. Particularly, it can offer various benefits for companies looking to improve their marketing strategies to build brand awareness more effectively.

Building a strong brand identity and general brand awareness is important for companies, which is why most of them invest in event sponsorship to establish their authority with their target market and in turn increase their brand visibility. Event sponsoring is a confirmed marketing strategy to build brand awareness, however, using logo detection technology to measure the return on investment (ROI) from such sponsorship delivers more accurate results.

Logo detection allows brands to figure out the frequency their logos appear on social media platforms and elsewhere online and exactly how they appear. For example, if a company has an advertising board promoting the company at an event, this system may be used to track how often the company’s logo is displayed on TV during the broadcast of the event.

Marketing agencies can also apply this technology to deliver more insightful marketing results for their clients as to how the target consumers interact with their brand online. Logo coverage measurement through this technology may also be a perfect tool for TV advertising companies, which can make specific offers with clear ROI and post-event performance metrics.

That way, by putting together results from different media platforms, companies can analyse any media coverage of a sponsored event and evaluate the ROI for each campaign. Getting this data makes it easy to calculate the advertising value, evaluate the overall impact of the sponsorship campaign and define the most significant events to sponsor.

Logo detection technology comes in handy for monitoring customer feedback based on daily uploads on social media platforms. For example, during sports sponsorship events, the technology may be used to detect where a logo is displayed during a game, how often it appears, and who is sharing content with the logo on social media. In that way, the technology enables a type of social media monitoring that helps brands understand how consumers engage with their company both during and after a sports game.

In most cases, images or videos on social media containing a brand’s logo aren’t linked to that brand. This means that marketers cannot see all brand mentions or hashtags and are not even aware of the real attitude and feedback of consumers towards their company. With logo detection technology, brands can instead easily identify the images or videos where their logo appear which have been published on social media platforms without any tag mention or hashtag. Having access to all this data allows companies to build a truly realistic image of their brand presence on social media and measure brand awareness among target customers in general.

Another useful application of this technology is brand identity protection. With logo detection, it’s easier to prevent fraud and keep a specific brand safe from counterfeit attempts. Adding this tool to a company’s protection strategy can help find fraudulent or harmful content involving a brand on any online platform. As over 80 per cent of branded images don’t include a textual mention of that company, which means it becomes very important to take additional safety measures for protecting brand identity.

In addition, if there is an attempt to imitate a brand in any way using their logo, this tool can find it quickly and easily. This will allow a brand to act on time and remove or report the content before it can cause any serious damage to its image and reputation.

Counterfeiting has become a major issue within the world of retail and e-commerce and highly impacts the reputation of brands. It can even harm and put consumers in danger as many fake products contain harmful components or ingredients. Using this AI-powered technology can help prevent fraud cases by detecting and eliminating e-commerce listings containing fake logos before any potential customer purchases them.

Companies can significantly benefit from logo detection technology. It helps brands measure their logo coverage, track their brand perception, secure their brand value and increase the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns. Logo detection technology is a great solution for companies to continuously improve their awareness and better understand the user experience to reach a larger audience.

Image by Amir from Nowyouseememoria.eu

By Jack Ramage

Jul 15, 2021

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‘A picture is worth a thousand words’. I know, it’s a cliché, but bear with me—photography is an incredibly powerful tool. It can expand our knowledge, our empathy for strangers and, ultimately, tell a story. This story will leave you at a loss for words: angry and yearning for change. Enter @Now_You_See_Me_Moria, an Instagram page, turned photography collective, turned into a global movement—telling the stories of refugees living in life-threatening conditions through the lens of the refugees themselves.

Now You See Me Moria was started at a point in time where Amsterdam-based photo editor Noemi was going through heartbreak in July 2020. “I just felt pain, a strong pain that was gouging through my whole body, physical pain,” she wrote on the website. One night, she was struggling to sleep and resorted to Facebook to numb the boredom. Among the timeline, she stumbled across the work of photographer Amir, a 21-year-old Afghan refugee capturing his experience living in the conditions of the Moria refugee camp in Greece.

“At that moment, when I saw his photos, I realised he was trying to explain what was happening in the camp,” Noemi told me. “Europe was not interested at all—we were all concerned with our own issues [not pay attention to what was happening there]. I couldn’t find any new information about the situation in the camp.”

“I could see that he was sharing photos within his small bubble on Facebook,” Noemi continued. “I decided to contact him. I thought my knowledge of photography could help him bring those photos outside of his bubble.” She noted how the images Amir created were documentation of the struggles refugees in the Moria camp were facing—essentially, the images cut through the noise—producing a raw, unfiltered portrayal of life in the refugee camp through the eyes of the people experiencing it.  “You don’t have to become a photographer or have a [good] camera. To me, the power of the photos was precisely in that.”

Noemi highlighted that she decided to use Instagram as a platform to raise awareness. It was “free, fast and would give us the visibility we were trying to reach.” However, after five weeks of working on the platform, there was a fire in the camp. “Suddenly, 20,000 people were displaced,” she said, “people were sleeping on the streets without food, without anywhere to go. They were even forming demonstrations to protest.”

She explained that in response to the fire, the refugees were promised another replacement camp with decent living conditions, “which was obviously a lie.” She added, “That’s the worst thing you can say to someone who’s seeking safety. Obviously, all of the refugees went inside, apart from the few who were relocated to other countries.” The camps have notoriously unfit living conditions. The Guardian described the Moria camp as “a place of violence, deprivation, suffering and despair.” Noemi highlighted how the uncertainty of the camp’s future—and when, if ever, the refugees would escape such conditions has led “children to commit suicide, pregnant women to commit suicide, due to the daily emotional stress of not knowing when the situation will change.”

By this point, the small project—initially formed from an insomnia-induced Facebook scroll—was slowly growing into a collective. Qutaeba from Syria, living with his two daughters, and Ali, a 23-year old from Afghanistan, joined the bid to document the conditions of the Moria camp. Noemi added, “This was a really important moment. The new camp was closed meaning journalists and photographers were not allowed inside. They were the only ones really showing what’s happening inside the camp.”

Sadly, a large chunk of Western media has the tendency to paint refugees in a negative light: a danger to society, terrorism, a burden on our public services… you get the idea. This is, obviously, fabricated but it doesn’t stop those with ill intent from pushing that narrative. After all, fear sells—and papers have to make money. Well, that’s one of the many excuses the mainstream press would give in vilifying and dehumanising innocent people fleeing war-torn countries.

Now You See Me Moria is pushing the narrative in the right direction. The narrative that refugees are humans, just like you and me—not threats to society but innocent people escaping war, only to be held in dangerous and life-threatening conditions. Noemi explains, “The more you see the images the more you seem to know them. Not just the dramatic moments like the fire but also images of their daily life. When you see them cooking or playing with animals, you see how similar they are. Those are the boring moments you will never see in the media—they allow people to connect with compassion and empathy. It will make them act and not accept the situation anymore.”

 

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“At the start of the project, many people didn’t like the situation but didn’t think they could or know how to change it. What we wanted to do was change this mindset. Show that there is something you can do, even if it’s small.” Noemi continued. 

The idea of a campaign was formed, an international movement of graphic designers who would repurpose images taken by those inside the camp into posters, plastering them across many cities to raise awareness. “We started this crazy and surreal idea to be involved with all 27 countries. We knew it would require a lot of infrastructure and money to do that but when we sent out an open call, we received an overwhelming response. Suddenly, over 500 graphic designers across the globe were onboard. It was something really beautiful. In less than four weeks, we had created the Valentine campaign.”