Information Technology Research Unit (ITRU & ICITR): Recent submissions

  • Iot-powered sustainable dry zone agriculture: an experimental implementation 
    Firdhous, MFM; Sudantha, BH; Karunaratne, PM [Conference-Full-text]
    Dry zone agriculture plays an important role in the national economies of many countries. On the other hand dry zone agriculture suffers from many problems especially lack of water for producing the optimum yield it ...
  • A short survey on adaptive algorithms in identifying wiener models 
    Yang, CY; Yang, JS; Yu, L [Conference-Full-text]
    Wiener model with its corresponding excellence were often adopted to identify varieties of nonlinear systems. The short paper is aimed to explore the rationale to establish the model from its very theoretical beginning. ...
  • An efficient approach towards image stitching in aerial images 
    Rathnayake, RMNB; Seneviratne, L [Conference-Full-text]
    Aerial images taken by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) contain rich geographic information. However, the higher the altitude the cost for image capturing increases and image quality or the visibility decreases. To overcome ...
  • Iot-enabled smart elephant detection system for combating human elephant conflict 
    Fazil, M; Firdhous, M [Conference-Full-text]
    Human elephant conflict has become one of major and serious problems for many countries in Asia and Africa. The conflict between humans and elephants have resulted in loss of human life and limbs as well as death of many ...
  • System for detecting student attention pertaining and alerting 
    Vettivel, N; Jeyaratnam, N; Ravindran, V; Sumathipala, S; Amarakecrthi, S [Conference-Full-text]
    Concentration is the ability to focus the mind on a specific context at a time. This is important to do any activities efficiently such as learning and driving. Especially, for students, it is tough to be stay focused ...
  • A study on mobile robot control by hand gesture detection 
    Ikegami, S; Premachandra, C; Sudantha, BH; Sumathipala, S [Conference-Full-text]
    Recently, method of controlling machine with natural control called Natural User Interface has attracted attention. particularly, human hand is considered to be communication media that can communicate information most ...
  • A study on autonomous entering into narrow path using a mobile robot 
    Matsumoto, Y; Premachandra, C; Sudantha, BH; Sumathipala, S [Conference-Full-text]
    This research aimed to find a narrow path identification method using autonomous movement of various robots including wheel robots. It was used to detect obstacles by sensors, obstacle avoidance behavior and entering ...
  • New approach to solve dynamic job shop scheduling problem using genetic algorithm 
    Kurera, C; Dasanayake, P [Conference-Full-text]
    Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is one of the most common problems in manufacturing due to its widespread application and the usability across the manufacturing industry. Due to the vast solution space the JSSP ...
  • Which is the better rule? the multiplication rule or the minimum rule for fuzzy set intersection 
    Dassanayake, VPC [Conference-Full-text]
    The author introduces a term called total belongingness indicator of an element by adding the partial belongingness of the element to a number of sets. When the universal set is constructed by obtaining the union of ...
  • Data security implementations in cloud computing: a critical review 
    Firdhous, MFM; Hussien, NA [Conference-Full-text]
    Cloud Computing has captured the market as the most promising computing paradigm, where users are allowed to use computing resources in a flexible and cost effective manner. Data storage is one of the services provided ...
  • Text summarization for tamil online sports news using nlp 
    Priyadharshan, T; Sumathipala, S [Conference-Full-text]
    Text summarization plays an important problem in natural language understanding and information retrieval. Automatic text summarization get much more attention by people presently because it is efficiently and effectively ...
  • A color mask and trained image set for the creation of new technique for indoor robotic navigation 
    Warnakulasooriya, KMHK; Sudantha, BH; Premachandra, C [Conference-Full-text]
    Among the different methods used in the indoor navigation of robotic systems image processing techniques are widely used. This research was focused to explore a new dimension of image capturing and matching in order to ...
  • International Conference on Information Technology Research 2016 [Pre Text] 
    Fernando, KSD [Conference-Full-text]
  • Stochastic modeling for self-evolving botnets 
    Hirat, K; Kudo, T; Kimura, T; Inoue, Y; Aman, H
    Machine learning techniques have been achieving significant performance improvements in various kinds of tasks, and they are getting applied in many research fields. While we benefit from such techniques in many ways, ...
  • Joint access-point and channel selection method using markov approximation 
    Kimura, T; Hirata, K; Muraguchi, M [Conference-Full-text]
    In recent years, access-points have been densely placed at public spaces. Users can each select an access-point from among such access-points so as to enhance communication quality. Access-point selection methods have ...
  • Vision based navigational approach for controlling of mobile robots 
    Warnkulasooriya, KMHK; Sudantha, BH [Conference-Full-text]
    Navigation plays an essential and important role in robotics. When the mobility is embedded to a robot the navigation is a must. Most of the robots are using close range mono-feel sensors for their navigation purposes ...
  • Time based search engine 
    Fernando, KSD [Conference-Full-text]
    Usually web search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and provides links to relevant web sites. General search engines provide URL list according to user’s ...
  • Development of a whack-a-mole haptic game for rehabilitation 
    Tokuyama, Y; Rajapakse, RPCJ; Miya, S; Konno, K [Conference-Full-text]
    The main purpose of computer game is to immerse a user in a virtual environment. The perception of immersion experience has been used to develop virtual reality applications for game-based learning, healthcare, ...
  • A web-based client management system for a software company 
    Kuruppu, S; Gunathilaka, N; Gaupadhi, D; Fernando, N; Kulawansa, KADT; Fernando, SA; Buhari, M
    A computerized client management system helps the firm to store all client records in one place. As a large number of employees are involved with clients in a daily basis, a web based Client Management System helps the firm ...
  • Deep neural networks for acoustic modeling – a review 
    Siriwardene, S [Conference-Full-text]
    Acoustic modeling refers to a statistical model that converts the speech signal to a set of phonetics related to each set of feature vectors extracted through pre processing the sound signal. A traditional approach to ...