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AI initiative registry
ID	AI Initiative	Stage	Description	Sector	Region	AI Bucket	SME
221	Automated Paper Chart Solution	Pilot	CHS is working closely with software provider CARIS to test and implement automated solution to generate Paper Charts from digital data sour...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Ontario and Prairie	Automation and Decision Support	Klein, David
220	Development of an underwater videography and AI system for studying fish passage effectiveness	Pilot	Designed to train existing DFO tools with information on fish passage effectiveness and develop an SOP for training videography-based AI mod...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Ontario and Prairie	Perception and Understanding	Klein, David
219	Fish-Habitat Associations	Ideation	Extraction of relevant habitat association info and strengths based on vetted literature input to AI for synthesis. Goal to improve equival...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Ontario and Prairie	Cognitive and Generative AI	Klein, David
218	L’observation des bélugas de l’estuaire du Saint-Laurent Not translated · original: French	Pilot	Entente de contribution avec le Groupe de recherche et d'éducation sur les mammifères marins (GREMM) pour le développement d'un module de me...	Marine Planning and Conservation	Quebec	Perception and Understanding	Robert, Sonia
217	Suite du projet de recherche de recherche et développement d’outils de vision automatisée pour l’étude des refuges marins des coraux et des éponges du golfe du Saint-Laurent. Not translated · original: French	Pilot	Une entente de contribution pour l’année 2025-2026 (Programme de gestion des océans) visant à l’amélioration de l’outil développé par le Cen...	Marine Planning and Conservation	Quebec	Perception and Understanding	Brossard, Jade
215	Projet pilote d’utilisation de M365 Copilot, pour le programme de Protection du poisson et de son habitat (PPPH / FFHPP) Not translated · original: French	Pilot	Utilisation de Microsoft 365 Copilot dans le cadre de la modernisation du PPPH Réflexions sur les possibilités d’optimiser les processus d...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Cognitive and Generative AI	Roy, Vincent
213	Numérisation de documents manuscrits Not translated · original: French	Pilot	En collaboration avec l’équipe nationale de l’Intendant principal des données (PSSI), visant principalement la pêche au saumon. L’objectif e...	Statistics, Policy and Licensing	Quebec	Perception and Understanding	Rémillard, Vincent
212	Surveillance électronique en mer Not translated · original: French	Pilot	Il s’agit de capture d’images vidéo sur les navires de pêche pour ensuite les faire analyser par des ressources humaines et un modèle d’inte...	Statistics, Policy and Licensing	Quebec	Perception and Understanding	Rémillard, Vincent
211	Analyse des sentiments Not translated · original: French	Pilot	C’est un modèle pour traiter automatiquement des textes et documents audios pour classifier les sentiments qui en ressortent sur le sujet....	Strategic Policy	Quebec	Automation and Decision Support	Brunelle, Charles
208	Fishing Detection	Pilot	The goal is to use vessel movement behaviour in the form of AIS data to predict whether a vessel is currently engaged in fishing activity. A...	Strategic Policy	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Croft, Lee
201	Maximize detections with AI of the aquatic autonomous environmental DNA (eDNA) sampler	Ideation	This Canadian apparatus provides detections of aquatic species through a standardized and reproducible method. Algorithms of AI analyze data...	—	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Winegardner, Amanda
194	Automated ELOG reporting	Pilot	Automatically generate daily insights and reports on use of ELOGs Solution being developed to generate real-time reporting of ELOG use and...	Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance	Gulf	Automation and Decision Support	Dupuis, Marc
193	Autonomous Task Tracker	Pilot	Autonomously complete tasks for fishery officer with multi-agent AI. Solution being developed in region to assist C&P autonomous completion...	Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance	Gulf	Automation and Decision Support	Dupuis, Marc
192	Harbour Assessments	Ideation On hold On hold	Automatically and continuously assess harbour conditions via drone and satellite imagery Solution being developed for Small Craft harbours t...	Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance	Gulf	Perception and Understanding	Dupuis, Marc
191	Irish Moss Research	Ideation On hold On hold	Automatically and non-invasively detect and assess health of Irish Moss Solution being developed for Science to review hundreds of hours of...	Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance	Gulf	Perception and Understanding	Dupuis, Marc
190	Lobster Stock Assessment	Pilot	Automatically assess lobster count and habitat from hours of video efficiently Solution being developed for Science to review hundreds of ho...	Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance	Gulf	Perception and Understanding	Dupuis, Marc
189	Site Assessments	Ideation On hold On hold	Automatically assess presence of eel grass from drone video Solution being developped to assist Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Program in...	Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance	Gulf	Perception and Understanding	Dupuis, Marc
188	Coastal Surveillance	Pilot	Automatically process thousands of drone images as part of continuous surveillance Solution being developed in region to assist C&P in batch...	Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance	Gulf	Perception and Understanding	Dupuis, Marc
187	Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Monitoring	Pilot	Automatically perform video analytics from hundred of harvester tuna video Solution being developed in region to assist C&P in batch process...	Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance	Gulf	Perception and Understanding	Dupuis, Marc
186	Paper Buyer Slips	Pilot	Automatically process 180K paper slips annually Solution being developed in region to assist Statistics team in batch-scanning and processin...	Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance	Gulf	Automation and Decision Support	Dupuis, Marc
185	Radia AI	Pilot	Exploring the capbilities of ISED/CRC's AI Innovation Hub's Radia AI and how it can be leveraged in our directorate's work.	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	De Vito, Marianne
184	Email searches in response to requests	Ideation	Leverage M365 Copilot functionalities to leverage AI to perform email searches in response to certain requests, including those related to A...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Fernandes, Ashley
183	General - Office Management	Pilot	Draft and Refine Documents: Staff make use of Copilot to generate or refine briefing notes to make these clear and concise. Enhance Collabor...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Fernandes, Ashley
182	Basic Translations & Data Processing	Ideation	We have identified several effective use cases: Processing machine readable data into human readable formats, basic translations, and summar...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Fenton, AJ
181	Pacific Aquacutlure Regulations (PAR) Gap Analysis	Pilot	Copilot is being leveraged to develop engagement tools for a regulatory consultation that are intuitive, builds on best practices and existi...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Andrade, Margaret

221
Automated Paper Chart Solution
CHS is working closely with software provider CARIS to test and implement automated solution to generate Paper Charts from digital data sources. AI routines will improve speed and accuracy of solutions (machine learning) as software is refined to ensure product specifications are respected (as they are used for official navigation).

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
220
Development of an underwater videography and AI system for studying fish passage effectiveness
Designed to train existing DFO tools with information on fish passage effectiveness and develop an SOP for training videography-based AI models in support of fish passage projects.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
219
Fish-Habitat Associations
Extraction of relevant habitat association info and strengths based on vetted literature input to AI for synthesis. Goal to improve equivalency models used in regulatory decisions. Possible partnership with McMaster University.

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
218
L’observation des bélugas de l’estuaire du Saint-Laurent
Entente de contribution avec le Groupe de recherche et d'éducation sur les mammifères marins (GREMM) pour le développement d'un module de mesures morphométriques assistées par l’intelligence artificielle pour les bélugas de l'estuaire du Saint-Laurent L’entente s’est terminée le 31 mars 2024 mais le module est en cours d’utilisation. Considérant la contrainte de temps imposée par les mesures manuelles des images prises par drones de bélugas, l’équipe de recherche du GREMM a développé une méthode exploitant l’IA pour mesurer plus rapidement et plus efficacement les bélugas.

Pilot Marine Planning and Conservation Perception and Understanding
217
Suite du projet de recherche de recherche et développement d’outils de vision automatisée pour l’étude des refuges marins des coraux et des éponges du golfe du Saint-Laurent.
Une entente de contribution pour l’année 2025-2026 (Programme de gestion des océans) visant à l’amélioration de l’outil développé par le Centre de développement et de recherche en intelligence numérique (CDRIN) en 2024-2025. Le projet a comme objectif global de concevoir et développer un outil d’intelligence artificielle permettant de détecter et suivre les organismes benthiques filmés dans les refuges marins des coraux et des éponges du Golfe du Saint-Laurent.

Pilot Marine Planning and Conservation Perception and Understanding
215
Projet pilote d’utilisation de M365 Copilot, pour le programme de Protection du poisson et de son habitat (PPPH / FFHPP)
Utilisation de Microsoft 365 Copilot dans le cadre de la modernisation du PPPH Réflexions sur les possibilités d’optimiser les processus du programme en s’appuyant sur l’utilisation de M365 Copilot.

Pilot Chief Digital Officer Cognitive and Generative AI
213
Numérisation de documents manuscrits
En collaboration avec l’équipe nationale de l’Intendant principal des données (PSSI), visant principalement la pêche au saumon. L’objectif est de numériser des documents avec des données manuscrites et de les faire analyser par un modèle d’intelligence artificielle qui va décoder l’écriture pour la transformer en données numériques et les insérer dans une base de données. Le but est de remplacer la saisie manuelle de ces données.

Pilot Statistics, Policy and Licensing Perception and Understanding
212
Surveillance électronique en mer
Il s’agit de capture d’images vidéo sur les navires de pêche pour ensuite les faire analyser par des ressources humaines et un modèle d’intelligence artificielle doté de capacité d’identification d’événements, d’espèces, etc. Projet fait en collaboration avec l’équipe nationale de l’Intendant principal des données.

Pilot Statistics, Policy and Licensing Perception and Understanding
211
Analyse des sentiments
C’est un modèle pour traiter automatiquement des textes et documents audios pour classifier les sentiments qui en ressortent sur le sujet. Un premier test sera fait sur le sujet des nouveaux permis de pêche exploratoire du homard.

Pilot Strategic Policy Automation and Decision Support
208
Fishing Detection
The goal is to use vessel movement behaviour in the form of AIS data to predict whether a vessel is currently engaged in fishing activity. AIS data is available to the department in near real-time from AIS transponders equipped on vessels. An automated system that can indicate to fishery officers when and where vessels are likely engaged in fishing activities will support better monitoring of compliance with regulations such as conformance with conditions in fishing licenses and in marine protected areas. Due to limited capacity and lengthy processes to manually review and distill data sources, fishery officers cannot fully monitor all vessels under present circumstances. This AI-supported system would help to increase monitoring coverage for fishery officers. Spatial processing: The vast amounts of geographically-referenced AIS transmissions from vessels must be refined to spatiotemporal areas of interest prior to feature engineering for input to the machine learning model. Appropriate spatial processing can support achieving this in a timely manner, particularly when near real-time processing is of interest. However, given the availability of the AIS pipeline, this processing is more appropriate to be performed by the pipeline than within the analytics environment for this use case. The fishing detection system would use the AIS pipeline API and would received data which has already been refine to the relevant spatial extents.

Pilot Strategic Policy Automation and Decision Support
201
Maximize detections with AI of the aquatic autonomous environmental DNA (eDNA) sampler
This Canadian apparatus provides detections of aquatic species through a standardized and reproducible method. Algorithms of AI analyze data from buoy-mounted sensors to determine optimal sampling windows, such as the presence of toxic phytoplankton bloom, and to perform quality assurance on sampling metadata.

Ideation Automation and Decision Support
194
Automated ELOG reporting
Automatically generate daily insights and reports on use of ELOGs Solution being developed to generate real-time reporting of ELOG use and implementation.

Pilot Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance Automation and Decision Support
193
Autonomous Task Tracker
Autonomously complete tasks for fishery officer with multi-agent AI. Solution being developed in region to assist C&P autonomous completion of administrative tasks.

Pilot Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance Automation and Decision Support
192
Harbour Assessments
Automatically and continuously assess harbour conditions via drone and satellite imagery Solution being developed for Small Craft harbours to assess harbour conditions (presence of ice, usage, vessel and vehicle traffic, change detection) based on drone footage and satellite imagery.

Ideation On hold Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance Perception and Understanding
191
Irish Moss Research
Automatically and non-invasively detect and assess health of Irish Moss Solution being developed for Science to review hundreds of hours of video for Irish Moss presence and health.

Ideation On hold Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance Perception and Understanding
190
Lobster Stock Assessment
Automatically assess lobster count and habitat from hours of video efficiently Solution being developed for Science to review hundreds of hours of video for lobster count and state of habitat.

Pilot Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance Perception and Understanding
189
Site Assessments
Automatically assess presence of eel grass from drone video Solution being developped to assist Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Program in reviewing hundreds of hours of drone footage to detect presence of Eel Grass.

Ideation On hold Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance Perception and Understanding
188
Coastal Surveillance
Automatically process thousands of drone images as part of continuous surveillance Solution being developed in region to assist C&P in batch processing of drone surveillance images.

Pilot Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance Perception and Understanding
187
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Monitoring
Automatically perform video analytics from hundred of harvester tuna video Solution being developed in region to assist C&P in batch processing of at-sea video monitoring footage.

Pilot Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance Perception and Understanding
186
Paper Buyer Slips
Automatically process 180K paper slips annually Solution being developed in region to assist Statistics team in batch-scanning and processing paper slips.

Pilot Indigenous Affairs, Aquaculture and Governance Automation and Decision Support
185
Radia AI
Exploring the capbilities of ISED/CRC's AI Innovation Hub's Radia AI and how it can be leveraged in our directorate's work.

Pilot Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI
184
Email searches in response to requests
Leverage M365 Copilot functionalities to leverage AI to perform email searches in response to certain requests, including those related to ATI/P

Ideation Programs Sector Automation and Decision Support
183
General - Office Management
Draft and Refine Documents: Staff make use of Copilot to generate or refine briefing notes to make these clear and concise. Enhance Collaboration and Workflow Efficiency: By offering suggestions for document formatting, language style, and clarifying content, Copilot helps maintain consistency and accuracy across communications and facilitates more effective interdepartmental collaboration. Meeting notes: After a meeting is recorded, Copilot can transcribe audio to produce a relatively accurate record of the discussion, using natural language processing to identify key points, decisions, and follow-up tasks, and organizing these into relatively concise summaries and action item lists. Conduct Research and Summarize Information: It can quickly extract key points from extensive reports, legislation, or guidelines—helping to synthesize complex information into actionable insights. Support Data Analysis and Reporting: Employees use Copilot to structure performance metrics, track progress against key indicators, and generate reports that inform decision-making. **These functionalities save time, improve comprehensiveness, and can help ensure that critical details are captured.**

Pilot Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI
182
Basic Translations & Data Processing
We have identified several effective use cases: Processing machine readable data into human readable formats, basic translations, and summarizing large documents and reports into digestible formats. We participated in tests of the DFO Pilot ChatGPT (GPT3) which was available prior to the DFO implementation of MS Copilot. As part of our testing, we identified several effective use cases which apply to both options since they're based on the same under

Ideation Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI
181
Pacific Aquacutlure Regulations (PAR) Gap Analysis
Copilot is being leveraged to develop engagement tools for a regulatory consultation that are intuitive, builds on best practices and existing requirements, and adopts a tone and approach that is adequate for the general public.

Pilot Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI