TUNA SCOPE

TitleTUNA SCOPE
BrandSOJITZ CORPORATION
Product / ServiceTUNA SCOPE
CategoryA01. Food / Drink
EntrantDENTSU INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Idea Creation DENTSU INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Production INFORMATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL-DENTSU, LTD. Tokyo, JAPAN
Production 2 DENTSU LIVE INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Production 3 DENTSU CREATIVE X INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Production 4 KOOZYT, INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Production 5 AT ARMZ Osaka, JAPAN
Additional Company SOJITZ CORPORATION Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Company Position
Kazuhiro Shimura Dentsu, Inc. Creative Director
Akimichi Hibi Dentsu, Inc. Business Producer
Ryo Sasaki Dentsu, Inc. Planner
Daisuke Matsunaga Dentsu, Inc. Art Director
Taira Kimura ISID General Manager
Hiroshi Morita ISID Chief Producer
Keigo Ihara ISID Project Manager
Yoshinori Tanaka ISID Project Manager
Michitaka Iida ISID Project Manager
Yasushi Miyajima Koozyt Data Scientist
Hideyuki Ono Koozyt Engineer
Amina Mim Koozyt AI Engineer
Hasanur Rashid Koozyt AI Engineer
Tomoyuki Kato Dentsu Live Director
Tatsuya Murayama DENTSU LIVE INC. Chief Producer
Masaya Ishii Dentsu Live Producer
Chisako Hasegawa Dentsu Live Producer
Tatsuo Yamano At Armz Producer
Ryosuke Kametani At Armz Production Manager
Junichi Ishikawa At Armz Production Manager
Hitoshi Nakao Dentsu Creative X Inc. Web Director
Shogo Hina AOIRO Web Designer
Katsuhiro Uto WOO inc. Graphic Designer
Jiro Watanabe WOO inc. Graphic Designer
Nobuyuki Isobe Onkio Haus Editor
Shunkichi Akutsu Freelance CG Designer
Go Aoyama Freelance CG Designer

Why is this work relevant for Brand Experience & Activation ?

Wild tuna has large discrepancies in quality from tuna to tuna, and it has the inherent issue that it requires tuna examiners to individually judge each tuna in order to determine what the flavor will be like. That's why Sojitz created TUNA SCOPE to inherit this legacy by using deep learning to teach an AI the tuna examination process. We offered a new brand experience by serving AI TUNA, a brand of tuna that cleared the new unified stand set by the AI examination process.

Background

Tuna―one of the ocean’s greatest treasures. The Tokyo market is a global center for marine products, where tuna examiners judge the quality of fish with their eyes. However, due to a shrinking fisheries industry and Tokyo’s rapidly aging population, the number of craftsmen has fallen to less than half of the industry’s golden age. In the near future, it’s feared that there will be no successors to carry on the occupation. Sojitz is a trading company that handles tuna from fishing grounds all over the world, and is committed to managing the quality of its own tuna by unifying standards by dispatching craftsmen around the world. To keep delivering a high standard of tuna in a future when tuna examiners may not be around, the company took the challenge of creating something that could carry on the legacy of this trade by developing a new system using AI.

Describe the creative idea (20% of vote)

We focused on cross sections of the tuna’s tail, which hold all the vital information about the tuna’s flavor, freshness and so forth. Craftsmen who worked at markets had long used this technique to examine tuna. But it is said that it takes these artisans at least ten years to learn to develop the acumen to perform this feat by eye, and the experts themselves admit that the skill is tacit knowledge—difficult to explain to others. Using our company’s resources, we photographed a massive number of tuna tail cross sections, and through deep learning, we taught AI to interpret this data, and master the craft’s unexplainable nuances in a single month—an impossibly short time for humans.

Describe the strategy (20% of vote)

Up until now, tuna examination has been the domain of a group of individual artisans, each with their own personal nuanced methods, and as such, has been difficult to reduce into a generalized technique. Since the number of tuna each examiner could practice on is limited, it also takes a great deal of time to train. We created a system by which we introduced an AI on a mobile platform into the large network operated by the client, Sojitz, and allowed it to learn simultaneously from a huge amount of visual data from fish markets all over the world. This enabled the creation of a unified standard of tuna examination by gathering many artisans’ experiences on a single application.

Describe the execution (30% of vote)

The AI system developed for TUNA SCOPE was turned into a smartphone app and introduced to the quality inspection process in fish factories. As a result, it was able to achieve 85% accuracy compared to real tuna examiners with 35 years of experience in dividing the fish into 4-5 grades. The tuna ranked highest by the AI during this test was branded as AI Tuna and served at a sushi restaraunt in Tokyo in order to test market viability. 3/5/2019 - TUNA SCOPE introduced to factory 3/27/2019 - AI TUNA is served in Tokyo and introduced as a brand 4/2019 - Brainstorming for use in other industries (agriculture, medicine, etc.) 4/2019 - Website launches

List the results (30% of vote)

Based on marketing tests 98% of people expressed interest in AI TUNA, and 90% of customers were satisfied with the experience. We achieved a high level of customer satisfaction and are utilizing our large network of fish markets to enable simultaneous machine learning across all markets in order to achieve a global quality standard. We are also in the process of considering ways in which the image analysis software developed for this project can go beyond the fish industry and be utilized in inspection processes across a variety of industries.

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