Innovation Directorate

Among Volocom's divisions, the Innovation Department is a key asset, specializing in the research and development of advanced algorithms for analyzing all the unstructured data processed by the company. Thanks to its extensive expertise, this team is able to effectively analyze, catalog, and archive a vast flow of information, playing a key role in Volocom's success in the Media Intelligence market.

 

AI and Data Journalism, Trend analysis and social network monitoring

The solutions developed by the Innovation Department are designed for all possible forms that news can take in the digital age, including all formats: images, audio, video, and text . Thanks to the use of Artificial Intelligence algorithms, the Innovation Department is able to offer customized and innovative solutions in AI Journalism and Data Journalism , also developing and offering trend analysis services, social network monitoring , news rankings , and analysis of the infosphere and fake news .

 

Object detection, face & logo recognition

The Innovation Department is committed to developing object detection, face and logo recognition technologies for image and video analysis, speaker recognition (voice recognition), and text-to-speech for audio analysis: solutions that allow companies, brands, organizations, or public figures to comprehensively monitor their presence on radio, TV, and all the new channels of the digital age.

 

Textual analysis

In the field of text analysis, the Innovation Department uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) technologies to extract topics, analyze the sentiment/emotion of news, extract named entities, and perform POS tagging in all languages, while also developing rewriting and summarization programs and creating next-generation chatbots for Question and Answering (Q&A).