ITRU - 2013: Recent submissions

  • Voice Disorder Recognizer to Aid Diagnosis of a Speech Pathologist 
    Hettiarachchi, YK; Withanage, DK [Conference-Full-text]
    In the field of medicine, currently a variety of methods are used to identify the pathologies in the human speech production system. The most common drawbacks of those methods are the discomfort for the patient caused ...
  • Skin Wound Analysis System 
    Ranasinghe, CD; Igalawithana, TC; Udayanga, SMR; Hettiarachchi, SY; Chaminda, HT [Conference-Full-text]
    In modern medical science, there is a growing trend of applying Information Technology into manual routines. Automated skin wound analysis is a novel approach in treatment of skin wounds. The system is intended to ...
  • Sentiment Analysis for Social Media 
    Jayasanka, RASC; Madhushani, MDT; Marcus, ER; Aberathne, IAAU; Premaratne, SC [Conference-Full-text]
    Sentiment analysis, the automated extraction of expressions of positive or negative attitudes from text has received considerable attention from researchers during the past decade. In addition, the popularity of internet ...
  • Recognition of online learner emotions through facial expressions: online learner facilitator 
    Chethana, BAS; Rukmal, KWJ; Rathnayake, HC; Randeni, RPKJ; Sandanayake, TC [Conference-Full-text]
    Emotions play an essential role in decision making, managing, perceiving, learning and influencing the thinking process of humans. Emotions are also important in teaching and learning and often find expression in ...
  • Perception Transformation for Visually Impaired People 
    Samarasingha, SLLK; Sandaruwan, AMDM; Sandaruwan, AMDM; Senanayake, MDRN; Withanage, DK; Sudantha, BH [Conference-Full-text]
    Blindness is the form of absence of visual sensation due to physiological or neurological factors. With this lack of vision blind people have to face unexpected situations while travel or attend their day to day work. ...
  • Navigation System for Visually Impaired 
    Silva, WMAU; Kanakarathna, KMDTK; Priyankara, WAAN; Wijerathna, DMHGNN; Chaminda, HT [Conference-Full-text]
    Object recognition and navigation are highly challengeable for visually impaired even though the environment is familiar for him. There are different approaches for addressing this problem domain using technologies ...
  • Mind Reading: A Survey and a Proof of Concept Platform for Perception Analysis 
    Gunawardana, ASL; Pathirana, PS; Gamage, TST; Ponnamperuma, SR; Weerawarana, SM [Conference-Full-text]
    This research paper discusses evolution of perception capturing and analytic mechanisms and presents a system for crowdsourced perception analysis. Crowdsourcing has become a buzzword in social computing which can ...
  • Lexical Enrichment and Sense Disambiguation of Ontology Concepts 
    Premarathna, PHSR; Indrajee, KHH; Mahawithana, P; De Silva, LYSG; Wimalasuriya, DC [Conference-Full-text]
    This paper presents a model to measure semantic similarity between custom ontology concepts and the taxonomy of WordNet and introduces a new ontology concept similarity measure. The similarity measure is based on ...
  • Integrated Automobile Service Platform 
    Dissanayaka, DMRCB; Silva, TLS; Rankothge, DGTS; Ratalakotuwa, RDGDJ; Madurasinghe, SY; Kulawansa, KADT; Fernando, SA
    Nowadays people have to face many difficulties when they are going to buy or get services for a vehicle and in storing all the information about vehicles in a one place and access whenever they want. Even companies which ...
  • Decision Supportive System for Customers and Merchants with Enhanced Relevance 
    Bandara, YMJK; Madhumalie, SHP; Madurasinghe, SY; Weerasinghe, MSC; Karunaratne, PM [Conference-Full-text]
    The rising development of technologies caused consumers to deal with an increasingly large amount of product and service information which is far beyond the individual’s cognitive effort to process. However due to the ...
  • Content based Hybrid SMS Spam Filtering System 
    Chaminda, T; Dayaratne, TT; Amarasinghe, HKN; Jayakody, JMRS [Conference-Full-text]
    World has changed. Everybody is connected. Almost each and everyone have a mobile phone. Millions of SMSs are going around the world over mobile networks in every second. But about 1/3 of them are spam. SMS spam has become ...
  • An Empirical Study Of The Impact Of User Training And Attitude Towards ERP Implementation In Selected Companies In Sri Lanka 
    Kumara, AS; Gunawardana, KD; Halwatura, RU [Conference-Full-text]
    Implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a radical change in an organization. Some of the staff are willing to accept new challenges whereas others are not. Therefore, there is a gap between attitudes ...
  • An Empirical Study of the Impact of User Training and Attitude Towards ERP Implementation in selected Companies in Sri Lanka 
    Kumara, AS; Gunawardana, KD; Halwatura, RU [Conference-Full-text]
    Implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a radical change in an organization. Some of the staff are willing to accept new challenges whereas others are not. Therefore, there is a gap between attitudes ...
  • Voice disorder recognizer to aid diagnosis of a speech pathologist 
    Hettiarachchi, YK; Withanage, DK [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    In the field of medicine, currently a variety of methods are used to identify the pathologies in the human speech production system. The most common drawbacks of those methods are the discomfort for the patient caused ...
  • Skin wound analysis system 
    Ranasinghe, CD; lgalawithana, TC; Udayanga, SMR; Hettiarachchi, SY; Chaminda, HT [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    In modern medical science, there is a growing trend of applying Information Technology into manual routines. Automated skin wound analysis is a novel approach in treatment of skin wounds. The system is intended to ...
  • Sentiment analysis for social media 
    Jayasanka, RASC; Madhushani, MDT; Marcus, ER; Aberathne, IAAU; Premaratne, SC [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    Sentiment analysis, the automated extraction of expressions of positive or negative attitudes from text has received considerable attention from researchers during the past decade. In addition, the popularity of internet ...
  • Recognition of online learner emotions through facial expressions: online learner facilitator 
    Chethana, BAS; Rukmal, KWJ; Rathnayake, HC; Randeni, RPKJ; Sandanayake, TC [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    Emotions play an essential role in decision making, managing, perceiving, learning and influencing the thinking process of humans. Emotions are also important in teaching and learning and often find expression in ...
  • Perception transformation for visually impaired people 
    Purnima, DMH; Samarasingha, SLLK; Sandaruwan, AMDM; Senanayake, MDRN; Withanage, DK; Sudantha, BH [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    Blindness is the form of absence of visual sensation due to physiological or neurological factors. With this lack of vision blind people have to face unexpected situations while travel or attend their day to day work. ...
  • Mind reading: a survey and a proof of concept platform for perception analysis 
    Gunawardana, ASL; Pathirana, PS; Gamage, TST; Ponnamperuma, SR; Weerawarana, SM [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    This research paper discusses evolution of perception capturing and analytic mechanisms and presents a system for crowdsourced perception analysis. Crowdsourcing has become a buzzword in social computing which can ...
  • Lexical enrichment and sense disambiguation of ontology concepts 
    Prernarathna, PHSR; Indrajee, KHH; Mahawithana, P; De Silva, LYSG; Wimalasuriya, DC [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    This paper presents a model to measure semantic similarity between custom ontology concepts and the taxonomy of WordNet and introduces a new ontology concept similarity measure. The similarity measure is based on ...