Towards Designing Computer Vision-based Explainable-AI Solution: A Use Case of Livestock Mart Industry
This work aims to provide transparency and build confidence for buyers and sellers in the livestock mart industry by explaining AI-driven animal pricing, which is an incremental improvement for a specific domain.
This paper addresses the need for explainable AI in online livestock marts to provide transparency in animal pricing. The authors are developing a smart video analytic platform that uses Explainable AI techniques to reveal factors influencing price, aiming to build buyer and seller confidence.
The objective of an online Mart is to match buyers and sellers, to weigh animals and to oversee their sale. A reliable pricing method can be developed by ML models that can read through historical sales data. However, when AI models suggest or recommend a price, that in itself does not reveal too much (i.e., it acts like a black box) about the qualities and the abilities of an animal. An interested buyer would like to know more about the salient features of an animal before making the right choice based on his requirements. A model capable of explaining the different factors that impact the price point is essential for the needs of the market. It can also inspire confidence in buyers and sellers about the price point offered. To achieve these objectives, we have been working with the team at MartEye, a startup based in Portershed in Galway City, Ireland. Through this paper, we report our work-in-progress research towards building a smart video analytic platform, leveraging Explainable AI techniques.