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ID	AI Initiative	Stage	Description	Sector	Region	AI Bucket	SME
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
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
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
179	Change Management center of excellence- AI Assistant	Ideation	Change Management Centre of Excellence – AI Assistant: Using a Copilot agent as our dedicated assistant to support the sector by providing a...	Strategic Policy	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Kiefl, Richard
178	Records of decision for governance committees supporting the CDO	Ideation	Records of Decision for Governance Committees Supporting the Chief Digital Office: Leveraging the transcript function in Microsoft Teams to...	Strategic Policy	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Kiefl, Richard
177	Resume Bank Analysis	Ideation	Resume bank analysis: summarizing candidates resumes in our digital skills bank to provide consistent summaries (remove biases) and potentia...	Strategic Policy	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Kiefl, Richard
176	Analysis of roles	Ideation	Analysis of roles: Ad hoc analysis of roles within C&P, comparing 4 different roles and their responsibilities.	Strategic Policy	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Kiefl, Richard
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
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
175	AI model for duplcate or dubious licence accounts	Ideation	Licencing systems hold 10 times the amount accounts compared to licences issued. Many duplicate and dubious accounts across the millions of...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Bédard, Mathieu
174	AI model for Video review	Ideation	An AI model that reviews video monitoring footage for a fishery or given vessel and machine learns potential events of non compliance	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Bédard, Mathieu
173	AI model for the traceability of harvested fish	Ideation	An AI model that analysis incoming data requirements ( log books, fish slips, Other traceability documents required by existing and potentia...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Bédard, Mathieu
172	AI model for Condtions of Licences review	Ideation	Pac has 130 COls. These have been individually edited over the past decades. An AI model to search and identify difference in wording for si...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Bédard, Mathieu
167	Network model developing and testing with synthetic AI participants.	Ideation	Qualitative network models (QNM) can incorporate uncertainty through an ensemble of rights holder and stakeholder inputs. Before, engaging t...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Winegardner, Amanda
164	Development of an abundance index for an under surveyed capelin stock	Ideation	Recherche qui vise à utiliser des méthodes d’apprentissage automatique (machine learning) dans le but de classifier les signaux acoustiques...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Winegardner, Amanda
162	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	Ideation	Projet de contribution avec le Centre de développement et de recherche en intelligence numérique (CDRIN). L’objectif est de concevoir et dév...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Winegardner, Amanda
79	Biological models to support prioritzing salmon stocks under future climates	Ideation	This project fits retrospective, life stage-specific models in a data-driven analytical framework to evaluate functional responses to climat...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Thompson, Patrick
77	Emulator for OPP port models and for relocatable ocean modelling system	Ideation	Use machine learning to develop an emulator (or similar) for the OPP port models, which would be used to produce forecasts via inference. Th...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Dunphy, Michael
76	Chumputer Vision - salmon scale age predictive AI (See B8)	Ideation	Deep Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Network application for the predictive application of age assignment of Chum salmon by way of...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Wischniowski, Stephen
75	Study on the use of Artificial Neural Networks to Predict the Return Timing and Northern Diversion Rate for Migrating Fraser River Sockeye Salmon	Ideation	The Machine Learning feasibility study compliments the statistical approach by asking whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods can be de...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Automation and Decision Support	Thomson, Richard
73	Statistical Downscaling for the Ocean Working Group (SD-Ocean)	Ideation	The Canada-wide working group is open to researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and the non-profit sector. The WG will foste...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Infrastructure and Enablement	Holdsworth, Amber
72	Extracting impacts data from regulatory documents	Ideation	Use OCR pdf readers, topic detection and language models to detect specific data elements inside written text documents, for extraction and...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Bird, Tom
71	News topic detection tool	Ideation	Use large language models and topic clustering to read topics emerging in the news and detect which of those topics is relevant to DFO, as w...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Bird, Tom
62	Deep sea habitat, organism and object detection and identification.	Ideation	Proposing a capstone project to Computer Science students from Camosun College to develop a pipeline for identifying objects and loading the...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Best, Merlin
57	CSAS Knowledge Graph	Ideation	Using LLM to extract ontologies and relationships within published CSAS reports into a Graph RAG so that users can visualize and query relat...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Quan, Eric

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
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
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
179
Change Management center of excellence- AI Assistant
Change Management Centre of Excellence – AI Assistant: Using a Copilot agent as our dedicated assistant to support the sector by providing answers to questions on change management strategies, services, tools and templates.

Ideation Strategic Policy Cognitive and Generative AI
178
Records of decision for governance committees supporting the CDO
Records of Decision for Governance Committees Supporting the Chief Digital Office: Leveraging the transcript function in Microsoft Teams to formalize records of decision and streamline follow-up on action items.

Ideation Strategic Policy Automation and Decision Support
177
Resume Bank Analysis
Resume bank analysis: summarizing candidates resumes in our digital skills bank to provide consistent summaries (remove biases) and potentially providing side by side comparisons of candidate resumes or searching for skills

Ideation Strategic Policy Automation and Decision Support
176
Analysis of roles
Analysis of roles: Ad hoc analysis of roles within C&P, comparing 4 different roles and their responsibilities.

Ideation Strategic Policy Automation and Decision Support
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
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
175
AI model for duplcate or dubious licence accounts
Licencing systems hold 10 times the amount accounts compared to licences issued. Many duplicate and dubious accounts across the millions of accounts. An AI model to discover duplicate/dubious accounts to highlight them for human review and action.

Ideation Programs Sector Automation and Decision Support
174
AI model for Video review
An AI model that reviews video monitoring footage for a fishery or given vessel and machine learns potential events of non compliance

Ideation Programs Sector Perception and Understanding
173
AI model for the traceability of harvested fish
An AI model that analysis incoming data requirements ( log books, fish slips, Other traceability documents required by existing and potentially new regulations connected to public reporting apps )

Ideation Programs Sector Automation and Decision Support
172
AI model for Condtions of Licences review
Pac has 130 COls. These have been individually edited over the past decades. An AI model to search and identify difference in wording for similar Conditions

Ideation Programs Sector Automation and Decision Support
167
Network model developing and testing with synthetic AI participants.
Qualitative network models (QNM) can incorporate uncertainty through an ensemble of rights holder and stakeholder inputs. Before, engaging these communities, QNMs should be tested and this can be done via the development of synthetic AI participants representing viewpoints to engage with potential social uncertainty before actual real world deployment

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
164
Development of an abundance index for an under surveyed capelin stock
Recherche qui vise à utiliser des méthodes d’apprentissage automatique (machine learning) dans le but de classifier les signaux acoustiques du capelan dans le Golfe du St-Laurent.

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
162
Recherche et développement d’outils de vision automatisée pour l’étude des refuges marins des coraux et des éponges du golfe du Saint-Laurent.
Projet de contribution avec le Centre de développement et de recherche en intelligence numérique (CDRIN). L’objectif est de concevoir et développer un outil d’intelligence artificielle permettant de détecter et suivre les organismes benthiques filmés dans refuges marins des coraux et des éponges du Golfe du Saint-Laurent.

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
79
Biological models to support prioritzing salmon stocks under future climates
This project fits retrospective, life stage-specific models in a data-driven analytical framework to evaluate functional responses to climate variables across the salmon life cycle and make projections for how stocks will respond to climate change scenarios. This modelling approach is intended to be sufficiently flexible to incorporate variability in data quality. Large language models are being used to brainstorm modelling approaches and debug code. AI is not being tasked with developing these models. Large Language Models

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
77
Emulator for OPP port models and for relocatable ocean modelling system
Use machine learning to develop an emulator (or similar) for the OPP port models, which would be used to produce forecasts via inference. The inference is expected to be both faster and computationally cheaper than existing solutions. The training process would use existing model output from multi-year hindcasts. Success with a fixed location would graduate to developing a relocatable emulator TBD; could be U-Net or CNN, or based on GraphCast

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
76
Chumputer Vision - salmon scale age predictive AI (See B8)
Deep Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Network application for the predictive application of age assignment of Chum salmon by way of scale images. Chum salmon has been selected as the gateway species due to its relatively easy scale pattern interpretation, this will foster the pathway forward for Chinook, Coho Sockeye and Herring as future targets for AI age interpretation. Deep Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Network within a Python predictive algorithm

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
75
Study on the use of Artificial Neural Networks to Predict the Return Timing and Northern Diversion Rate for Migrating Fraser River Sockeye Salmon
The Machine Learning feasibility study compliments the statistical approach by asking whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods can be developed to predict salmon behaviour as functions of ocean conditions. classical machine learning models, including linear regression, Ridge regression, and Random Forest

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
73
Statistical Downscaling for the Ocean Working Group (SD-Ocean)
The Canada-wide working group is open to researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and the non-profit sector. The WG will foster growth of a transdisciplenary research cluster at the forefront of the rapidly-developing field by sharing tools, devloping a network of practitioners, and working through specific examples (hackathons). The recent rapid growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a set of Machine Learning (ML) tools for statistical downscaling

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Infrastructure and Enablement
72
Extracting impacts data from regulatory documents
Use OCR pdf readers, topic detection and language models to detect specific data elements inside written text documents, for extraction and analysis in a cumulative impacts context. Large lanugage models and topic clustering tools

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
71
News topic detection tool
Use large language models and topic clustering to read topics emerging in the news and detect which of those topics is relevant to DFO, as well as what knowledge DFO has available to address those topics. Large Language Models

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
62
Deep sea habitat, organism and object detection and identification.
Proposing a capstone project to Computer Science students from Camosun College to develop a pipeline for identifying objects and loading the results into Biigle for human review. TBD.

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
57
CSAS Knowledge Graph
Using LLM to extract ontologies and relationships within published CSAS reports into a Graph RAG so that users can visualize and query relationships between researches

Ideation Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI