FISH CHECKER

TitleFISH CHECKER
BrandTAIWAN EDIBLE MAGAZINE
Product / ServiceFISH CHECKER WEB APP
CategoryA04. Early-stage Technology
EntrantDENTSU X Taipei, TAIPEI
Idea Creation DENTSU X Taipei, TAIPEI

Credits

Name Company Position
Yoji Sakamoto dentsu Inc. Creative Director
Britney Lin dentsu X Taiwan Associate Creative Director
Max Yeh dentsu X Taiwan Copywriter
Fuhe Hsu dentsu X Taiwan Programmer
Joanne Mei dentsu X Taiwan Project Manager
Cat Liu dentsu X Taiwan Copywriter
Sean Wei dentsu X Taiwan Designer

Why is this work relevant for Innovation?

Taiwanese purchase a huge amount of fish which is twice the global average, but people are lack of knowledge about the sustainability of seafood and keep on eating endangered fish. We wanted to create the easiest way for consumers to truly solve this issue. By using powerful AI technology, we turned complicated Taiwan Seafood Guide into a convenient mobile web app without downloading. The Fish Checker app was developed to help consumers easily see which fish is endangered to avoid buying them and can be expanded to the global scale in the future.

Background

Although Taiwan is surrounded by the sea, based on Ocean Health Index, the score of Taiwan is lower than the global average. Because people take fishery resources for granted and are lack of understanding about the severe status quo of the marine ecosystem. Then, how can we make Taiwanese realize this unsustainable situation and change their purchase behavior? By creating the mobile web app Fish Checker, we want to assist Taiwanese can easily identify fish they are going to buy which is endangered or not, and make their purchasing decisions more sustainable. Thanks to the effort of volunteers and users who have tried this app and collected thousands of pictures of fish in Taiwan to train AI machine learning, the accuracy of pattern recognition has been over 80% (Fish types in Taiwanese market). The app development and first-stage promotion fee are under $USD 4,000.

Describe the idea

Taiwanese love fish, people catch, sell, buy, and eat a lot of fish, but people don't know many of them are now endangered. Over the decades, there are more than 100 fish species vanished around northern Taiwan. The worst of all, Taiwanese keep consuming endangered fish because people cannot see which fish are endangered. As an opinion magazine which has promoted sustainable food culture to Taiwanese, Taiwan Edible Magazine needed to do something to fix this unsustainable situation. We decided to develop a brand-new tool by using Cloud Vision and AI machine learning technology to help consumers easily differentiating endangered fish and making more sustainable purchasing decisions.

What were the key dates in the development process?

5 October 2018 - Client discussion and sustainable seafood study 8 October 2018 - Planning and ideation 1 November 2018 - Presentation to client 5 November 2018 - UX/UI development 26 November 2018 - App prototyping 10 December 2018 - Database building and fish images collecting 7 January 2019 - App alpha version 25 January 2019 - App beta version 1 February 2019 - App open beta version and landing page launching

Describe the innovation/technology

We developed the mobile web app Fish Checker with pattern recognition function in Taiwan. By just following 3 simple steps: Scan, Show & Share, users can easily check the fish are endangered or not. Step 1: Scan After scanning the fish, the app automatically matches the fish figure and the fish data in the database. Step 2: Show The result shows whether the fish are Endangered, Nearly Endangered or OK to eat. According to the result, users can make more ocean-friendly purchase decisions. Step 3: Share Users can share the result through social media to spread the fact of the endangered fish.

Describe the expectations/outcome

We have kept on optimizing Fish Checker web app's accuracy by inviting more and more users to try the App to establish the image database of endangered fish in Taiwan. Through the collaboration with Taiwan Ocean University, the web app plans to be used by professors and students for the lectures also researches. Besides, we were interviewed by National Fishery Radio Station to introduce Fish Checker and how it attribute to the society, and invited to cooperate with National Geographic Ocean Day event to promote fish conservation, and held sustainable seafood classroom activities in elementary schools. Currently, this app mainly deals with fishes living near Taiwan. But by modifying this and expanding the area, we believe we can change people's behavior and, save the whole ecosystem of the ocean all over the world.

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