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ID	AI Initiative	Stage	Description	Sector	Region	AI Bucket	SME
151	Zooplankton image analysis	Pilot	Use Random Forest and residual neural networks (ResNet) for automated classification of zooplankton images collected using: 1) scanning of p...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Winegardner, Amanda
104	Zooplankton classification from Video Plankton Recorder	Pilot	Using machine learning algorithms to identify plankton for rapid zooplankton classification from the Video Plankton Recorder, in support of...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Winegardner, Amanda
7	Virtual ITSD agent for clients	Ideation	The next phase for ITSD involves deploying a client-facing chatbot. This virtual assistant will allow DFO employees to interact directly wit...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Interaction and Engagement	Miousse, Gaétan
23	Video Summarization for Aerial Surveillance	Pilot	AI pilot under development to automatically detect and flag relevant events (e.g., human/vessel activity) in surveillance video for informat...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Bédard, Mathieu
80	Various Built-In AI Features (Co-pilot, ChatGPT, etc)	Pilot	Using built-in AI features and functions in regular workflow operations. This includes LLM's such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Quan, Eric
96	Use of machine-learning (ML) algorithms and high-performance computing (HPC) for the optimization of satellite image analysis for mapping coastal habitats	Pilot	This project aims to improve satellite image analysis of marine habitats leveraging NRC HPC and ML assets to apply cutting-edge ML technique...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Winegardner, Amanda
118	Use of artificial intelligence models to facilitate seafloor video annotations in conservation areas.	Pilot	The purpose of this initiative is to utilize AI to facilitate seafloor video annotations collected as part of the MCT and Benthic Ecology pr...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Winegardner, Amanda
27	Turn on AI Auto labeling on all M365 documents and communications channels	Ideation	Our E5 M365 licences grant access to AI based tools in Purview to automatically categorized documents and set labels accordingly. Model tra...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Automation and Decision Support	Bussieres, Martin
81	Topaz AI Software	Pilot	Enhance underwater video from ROV and tow camera deployments in the offshore region and elsewhere. The deployment of these platforms is incr...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Best, Merlin
108	The development of rapid multiplex qPCR for the detection and quantification of three parasites MSX, SSO, Dermo of oysters (Crassostrea virginica) and MSX single-cell whole genome sequencing using long read sequencing platform’	Pilot	This 2-year project aims to enhance the disease diagnostic services provided to the shellfish aquaculture industry by improving the methods...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Winegardner, Amanda
240	The Current	Development	Don't let your harvested data get stuck in still water. Navigate new data streams with AI automation, augmentation and information enableme...	Fisheries Management	Not region specific	Perception and Understanding	Bird, Tom
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
68	Stereo camera image analysis	Pilot	Tools built in python to automate image analysis and fish measurement tasks. Applications include a conveyor belt camera and underwater towe...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Rooper, Chris
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
69	Species distribution modeling	Pilot	Species distribution models for various coral/sponge/groundfish Random Forests	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Automation and Decision Support	Rooper, Chris
231	Smart Assyst	Ideation	Assyst is point of entry to all CDOS service requests and it covers many of the ITIL and ITSM practices which is the foundation of any IT or...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Laplante, Stéphane
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
228	SILScanner	Pilot	Deploy on DFO's PBMM Cloud a proof of concept application that uses optical character recognition (OCR) to digitize and validate Stream Insp...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Bird, Tom
97	Satellite image analysis for mapping eelgrass habitat in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence.	Pilot	This project supports Gulf Region needs for spatial data representing eelgrass habitat through a service level agreement with Marine Plannin...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Winegardner, Amanda
9	SAP AI Chatbot	Ideation	SAP AI Chatbot to reduce support requests that need FMA resources	—	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
8	SAP AI Agent	Ideation	SAP AI Agent to validate financial transaction coding with invoices	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
132	Salmon Scale Aging	Pilot	A model using computer vision to look at images of salmon scale and predict the age of salmon and also explain how it arrived at its predict...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Winegardner, Amanda
49	Salmon Fence Counting	Pilot	A model using computer vision to analyze water stream fence video-footage, to simultanously count the number of and predict the species of s...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Quan, Eric
50	Salmon Data Digitization (See B22, B26)	Pilot	Digitizing non-machine-readable (handwritten) documents and extracts characters into a digital format so that it is accessible, editable, an...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Quan, Eric
130	Salmon Data Digitization	Pilot	Digitizing non-machine-readable (handwritten) documents and extracts characters into a digital format so that it is accessible, editable, an...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Winegardner, Amanda

151
Zooplankton image analysis
Use Random Forest and residual neural networks (ResNet) for automated classification of zooplankton images collected using: 1) scanning of preserved samples (ZooScan); and 2) in situ imagery (Underwater Vision Profiler, UVP). Imagery focused on surveys and samples collected along the West Coast of Vancouver Island and offshore from 2022-present.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
104
Zooplankton classification from Video Plankton Recorder
Using machine learning algorithms to identify plankton for rapid zooplankton classification from the Video Plankton Recorder, in support of efforts to assess North Atlantic Right Whale foraging habitat.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
7
Virtual ITSD agent for clients
The next phase for ITSD involves deploying a client-facing chatbot. This virtual assistant will allow DFO employees to interact directly with a virtual technician who can guide them to the appropriate IT services on the portal, provide links to FAQs, and offer 24/7 support for simple issues. This will enable our technical staff to focus on more complex tasks that require their expertise.

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement
23
Video Summarization for Aerial Surveillance
AI pilot under development to automatically detect and flag relevant events (e.g., human/vessel activity) in surveillance video for information management. Action plan for this initiative: 1. Governance: Oversight by a multidisciplinary group, routine updates and risk assessments to DM. 2. Guardrails: Pilot with departmental data only, audit outputs for accuracy and bias. 3. Work processes: Deliver targette

Pilot Programs Sector Perception and Understanding
80
Various Built-In AI Features (Co-pilot, ChatGPT, etc)
Using built-in AI features and functions in regular workflow operations. This includes LLM's such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and various others that are integrated directly into the applications already currently being used. Large Language Models

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
96
Use of machine-learning (ML) algorithms and high-performance computing (HPC) for the optimization of satellite image analysis for mapping coastal habitats
This project aims to improve satellite image analysis of marine habitats leveraging NRC HPC and ML assets to apply cutting-edge ML techniques to the challenges of remote sensing data analysis. Relates to ongoing project (below) through MPC service-level agreement.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
118
Use of artificial intelligence models to facilitate seafloor video annotations in conservation areas.
The purpose of this initiative is to utilize AI to facilitate seafloor video annotations collected as part of the MCT and Benthic Ecology programs in the NL Region. A large number of vidEcosystems and Oceans Science is collected annually, and manual video annotation (e.g., locating and counting observations) is extremely time-consuming. A published “object detection model” (FathomNet Megalodon Detector, YOLOv8x) trained using marine taxa by MBARI is currently being used to identify objects in our seafloor images. The model does not identify the objects (e.g., to species), but it largely accelerates the process given that locating objects is the most time-consuming part of the work.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
27
Turn on AI Auto labeling on all M365 documents and communications channels
Our E5 M365 licences grant access to AI based tools in Purview to automatically categorized documents and set labels accordingly. Model training would require attention of an Security/IM expert to make perfect. We may want to create specific AI specific labels to avoid conflicts with officials ones.

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
81
Topaz AI Software
Enhance underwater video from ROV and tow camera deployments in the offshore region and elsewhere. The deployment of these platforms is incredibly time- and resource-consuming, making the optimization of available video an important part of getting the most from this imagery. In addition there are camera limitations from the available DFO survey tools and framegrabs from video will be used as a major product from surveys, making enhancement to high quality images crucial. Topaz Video AI and Topaz Photo AI

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
108
The development of rapid multiplex qPCR for the detection and quantification of three parasites MSX, SSO, Dermo of oysters (Crassostrea virginica) and MSX single-cell whole genome sequencing using long read sequencing platform’
This 2-year project aims to enhance the disease diagnostic services provided to the shellfish aquaculture industry by improving the methods for detecting economically important Oyster parasites, enhance understanding of Multinucleate Sphere Unknown X (MSX) virulence dynamics, and support the creation of new vaccine in investigating future outbreaks and modeling through machine learning.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
240
The Current
Don't let your harvested data get stuck in still water. Navigate new data streams with AI automation, augmentation and information enablement. The Current is a cloud-hosted platform that enables users anywhere in the department to ingest large volumes of structured and unstructured documents, extract data using optical character recognition and large language models, validate and review results through human-in-the-loop workflows, and relate extracted information using shared concepts and standards. The architecture emphasizes asynchronous processing, modular extraction services, strong traceability, and governance-ready design. The platform supports configurable extraction tasks, versioned models and definitions, auditable review processes, and future discovery of related research outputs and datasets across heterogeneous sources. As the initial use-case, the Text Intelligence and Data Extraction (TIDE) Service has been developed for the Salmon Habitat Restoration (SHARE) System. TIDE is a baseline iteration of The Current that fulfills the minimum viable product requirements of SHARE. TIDE focuses on digitizing, extracting, and modeling data from large unstructured text documents. TIDE establishes the baseline architecture and demonstrates a scalable workflow in Production.

Development Fisheries Management 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
68
Stereo camera image analysis
Tools built in python to automate image analysis and fish measurement tasks. Applications include a conveyor belt camera and underwater towed stereo camera system Computer vision tools (Python, Viame)

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
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
69
Species distribution modeling
Species distribution models for various coral/sponge/groundfish Random Forests

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
231
Smart Assyst
Assyst is point of entry to all CDOS service requests and it covers many of the ITIL and ITSM practices which is the foundation of any IT organisation - and it has the potential to support most if not all of the ITIL and ITSM practices. The most recent versions of Assyst now have deeply integrated AI functionalities that are embedded in all parts and stages of the IT support process. It includes: A natively integrated Chat Bot for technicians and clients, AI ticket assignment, integration to MS Teams, recommended solutions, automated FAQ generation, natural language system search, risk prediction, conversational coding for Assyst developers, smart ticket assignment and escalation, summarization of knowledge articles, and more Activating and configuring those AI functionalities would require an investment in the Assyst system in order to make it AI ready. There is currently a lot of waste in the various CDOS ITIL practices due to a lack of investment in our ITSM tools. Modernizing Assyst to make it AI ready and turning on many of the newer AI features would joinlty contribute to reduce much of the waste incurred during the delivery of our CDOS services to the organization. It would also be a strong showcase both for CDOS and our clients of the power of AI integrated to a complete service process instead of the common and simple use case of AI conversational agents that may only produce limited and siloed value.

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement
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
228
SILScanner
Deploy on DFO's PBMM Cloud a proof of concept application that uses optical character recognition (OCR) to digitize and validate Stream Inspection Logs (SILs). The PoC was originally developed on SSC's cloud infrastructure. It is now being deployed in DFO PB cloud infrastructure. BLADES initiative and IT security teams are involved.

Pilot Chief Digital Officer Perception and Understanding
97
Satellite image analysis for mapping eelgrass habitat in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence.
This project supports Gulf Region needs for spatial data representing eelgrass habitat through a service level agreement with Marine Planning and Conservation. Machine learning algorithms have been applied for classification of satellite imagery. MPC and Science have been collaborating for several years, annually purchasing satellite imagery, with classification conducted by both groups.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
9
SAP AI Chatbot
SAP AI Chatbot to reduce support requests that need FMA resources

Ideation Interaction and Engagement
8
SAP AI Agent
SAP AI Agent to validate financial transaction coding with invoices

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
132
Salmon Scale Aging
A model using computer vision to look at images of salmon scale and predict the age of salmon and also explain how it arrived at its prediction.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
49
Salmon Fence Counting
A model using computer vision to analyze water stream fence video-footage, to simultanously count the number of and predict the species of salmon. YOLO 11 Chinook trained on 735 annotated frames from 63 videos Coho trained on 432 annotated frames from 44 videos Sockeye trained on 1149 annotated frames from 36 videos Chum untrained (annotation of 1368 frames from 43 videos in progress) Pink Humpback

Pilot Programs Sector Perception and Understanding
50
Salmon Data Digitization (See B22, B26)
Digitizing non-machine-readable (handwritten) documents and extracts characters into a digital format so that it is accessible, editable, and useable for analysis. Document Intelligence - Custom Classification and Extraction Model Azure OpenAI GPT4o mini Data and Information from ~45,000 pages have been digitized

Pilot Programs Sector Perception and Understanding
130
Salmon Data Digitization
Digitizing non-machine-readable (handwritten) documents and extracts characters into a digital format so that it is accessible, editable, and useable for analysis.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding