Browsing ICITR - 2021 by Faculty "IT"

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  • Adapting marytts for synthesizing sinhalese speech to communicate with children 
    Lakmal, MAJA; Methmini, KADG; Rupasinghe, DMHM; Hettiarachchi, DI; Piyawardana, V; Senarathna, M; Reyal, S; Pulasinghe, K [Conference-Full-text]
    The majority of the Sri Lankan population speak Sinhala, which is also the country's mother tongue. Sinhala is a difficult language to learn by children aged between 1–6 years when compared to other languages. Text to ...
  • Automated question and answer generating system for educational platforms 
    Thiruvanantharajah, M; Hangarangoda, N; Rajapakshe, S [Conference-Full-text]
    Learning through the web gets to be well known which encourages learners to learn any kind of stuff at any time from the internet assets. In exam preparing questions and answering is have moved into the technology world. ...
  • Cheating detection in browser-based online exams through eye gaze tracking 
    Dilini, N; Senaratne, A; Yasarathna, T; Warnajith, N; Seneviratne, L [Conference-Full-text]
    Eye-tracking can detect and examine human visual attention, emotional conditions, latent cognitive processes such as efforts to recall a concept or the fear of running out of time, and so on. Hence, we can use eye-tracking ...
  • Computational modelling of synaptic plasticity: a review of models, parameter estimation using deep learning, and stochasticity 
    Kumarapathirana, KPSD; Kulasiri, D; Samarasinghe, S; Liang, J [Conference-Full-text]
    It is imperative to understand the human memory formation and impairment to treat dementia effectively. There is ample scientific evidence that memory formation is strongly correlated to synaptic connections. Synaptic ...
  • Convolutional neural network to reproduce selfie images after removing supportive hand 
    Weerakoon, WMHI; Meegama, RGN [Conference-Full-text]
    Although selfie images have become popular among smartphone users, the supportive hand that holds the camera ruins the beauty of the picture. The captured images will look more realistic if the supporting hand is removed ...
  • A data driven approach for detection and correction of spelling errors in sinhala essays 
    Samarasinghe, PM; Sewwandi, WBI; Ranathunga, L; Wijetunge, WASN [Conference-Full-text]
    This paper proposes novel approaches for checking and correcting spelling errors in Sinhala essays written by candidates of grade five scholarship examination. They don't have a proper mechanism to identify their spelling ...
  • Design of a novel current controlling module for functional electrical stimulation (fes) system 
    Chamal, GRP; Fernando, MIM; Kulathunga, WPMW; Pathirana, KD; Prins, NW [Conference-Full-text]
    Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is widely used in rehabilitative therapies such as restoration of motor function for post-stroke and other types of paralysis. Here we present the design of an FES current controlling ...
  • Detection of suicide ideation in twitter using ann 
    Yatapala, KDYHT; Kumara, BTGS [Conference-Full-text]
    Suicide is considered one of the leading problems in the present. Detecting suicide earlier and providing a solution is considered the most successful way to suicide ideation and suicide attempts prevention. At present, ...
  • Determining flood risk vulnerability using factor analysis approach 
    Karunarathne, AWSP; Piyatilake, ITS [Conference-Full-text]
    Floods are becoming a frequent natural disaster in Sri Lanka. Although it is an uncontrollable natural event, it is essential to pay attention in necessary policy making in order to control floods in the future. Therefore, ...
  • Development of digital storytelling platform for children based on emotions 
    Vijayakumaran, T; Thavachelvam, T; Gnaeswaran, A; Sandanayake, TC; Sumathipala, K; Bandara, S [Conference-Full-text]
    Storytelling is one of the means to make Gen Alpha children attractive to books. This is becoming a challenging task for parents, as they have to spend time telling stories to children. This research proposed a system that ...
  • Diagnostic intervention for mental disorder 
    Senanayake, S; Karunanayaka, C; Dananjaya, L; Chamodya, L; Kumari, S; Chandrasiri, S [Conference-Full-text]
    Mental health is one of the essential factors in the topic of healthcare and wellbeing. However, mental health disorders could cause severe damage, even loss of life to the person or the surroundings, if mental health ...
  • Digital platform to empower the self-employment in Sri Lanka 
    Wickramasinghe, HCP; Thebuwana, TD; Wijesinghe, GKHS; Dissanayake, UN; Kodagoda, N; Suriyawansa, K [Conference-Full-text]
    Unemployment is a huge problem around the world because a lack of job opportunities. People are unable to find the job opportunities according to their preferences and qualifications. As a solution for this, many countries ...
  • Eketh: a machine learning-based mobile platform to facilitate the paddy cultivation process in Sri Lanka 
    Premachandra, JSANW; Kumara, PPNV [Conference-Full-text]
    Agriculture is a significant source of human survival and it accounts for the socio-economic growth in many developing countries including Sri Lanka. Paddy Cultivation occupies a remarkable place in Sri Lankan agricultural ...
  • Exploring unorthodox predictors of smartphone addiction during the covid-19 outbreak 
    De Silva, GHBA; Sandanayaka, TC; Firdhous, MHM [Conference-Full-text]
    Smartphones became an integral part of household & corporate management across all industries which resulted in high screen time, & smartphone addiction during the pandemic. This study attempts to examine the association ...
  • Fleet management with real-time data analytics 
    Rathnayaka, RPDT; Ekanayake, KVJP; Rathnayake, HUW; Jayetileke, HR [Conference-Full-text]
    Significant effort has to be devoted to surviving the businesses relying on fleet vehicles in the year 2020 and ahead as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic became pandemic. Executing profitable business while keeping ...
  • A framework to detect sale forecasting with optimum batch size 
    Saradha, RMS; Samadhi, MA; Manawadu, I; Ganegoda, GU [Conference-Full-text]
    Today, sales forecasting plays a key role for each business. To maintain the sales process successfully, every manufacture focus on retaining optimum production batch size. Therefore, this study aims to develop a framework ...
  • Gis powered an automated generic flood model for river basins in Sri Lanka 
    Bandara, MNL; Premasiri, HMR; Sudantha, BH [Conference-Full-text]
    Flood is the most common and deadliest form of disaster that affects lives and properties all around the world. Predicting natural disasters is very complex due to the lack of proper methods and resources in countries like ...
  • Heuristics-based sql query generation engine 
    Sugandhika, C; Ahangama, S [Conference-Full-text]
    A database is one of the prime media to store data. Most of the time, relational databases are preferred over other databases due to their ability to represent complex relationships between data. Languages like Structured ...
  • How to pretrain an efficient cross-disciplinary language model: the scilitbert use case 
    la Broise, JBD; Bernard, N; Dubuc, JP; Perlato, A; Latard, B [Conference-Full-text]
    Transformer based models are widely used in various text processing tasks, such as classification, named entity recognition. The representation of scientific texts is a complicated task, and the utilization of general ...
  • Image breaking method for lung isolation from chest x-rays 
    Samarasinghe, CA; Ganegoda, GU [Conference-Full-text]
    Most of the techniques that are available for chest x ray image segmentation are not purely based on image processing. Majority of the existing work involves a limited preprocessing part, and the rest is conducted with the ...