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An Integrated Smart Framework for Post-Harvest Optimization and Market Intelligence
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026-08-04) Gamage U.V.A; Wimalarathna B.P.K; Dharmappriya W.A.I.U.; Rathnayaka S.J.; Tissera, W; Rupasinghe, S; De Silva, H; Priyadarshana W.H.D.
Post-harvest losses in Sri Lanka's fruit and vegetable supply chain remain a critical challenge, attributed to the absence of integrated quality assessment tools, real-time market intelligence, and accessible decision support systems tailored to local conditions. Existing approaches address these problems in isolation, leaving smallholder farmers without a unified platform for quality grading, price forecasting, post-harvest advisory, and cultivation planning. This paper presents CropShield, a novel four-component AI framework designed to address these gaps for Sri Lankan agricultural stakeholders. The first component employs YOLOv8 for fruit detection followed by MobileNetV2 fine-tuned on a papaya dataset for defect classification across six categories and maturity classification across three stages, with Grad-CAM explainability and a Random Forest recommendation engine integrated with Department of Agriculture knowledge. The second component delivers price forecasting across eleven crop varieties using a hybrid ensemble of ARIMAX, XGBoost, and LightGBM trained on HARTI market data from 2008 to 2025. The third component provides a bilingual post-harvest risk advisory assistant supporting Sinhala and English, integrating real-time weather data with an NLP-driven prediction engine, with SHAP-based explainability for transparent advisory outputs. The fourth component implements a Random Forest-based crop suitability and yield estimation model using district-level agronomic data with SHAP explainability for interpretable crop recommendations. The defect detection model achieved 95.65% accuracy and F1-score under clean conditions and 93.48% under robust augmentation, while the price forecasting model achieved R2=0.986 and MAPE=3.16%. CropShield delivers a scalable, explainable, and farmer-accessible platform for evidence-based agricultural decision-making across Sri Lanka
Voice Agentic Smart Reader Application In Sinhala and Tamil For Visually Impaired People
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026-05-22) Siriwardana B.J.A; Hewagama A.D; Aluwihare M.C; Sharumathan M; Weerasinghe, M; Abeywardhana, L
This paper proposes an intelligent smart reading system to improve access to documents, news articles, and printed content for visually impaired and reading-challenged users, particularly in low-resource languages such as Sinhala and Tamil. Although recent advances in computer vision, speech processing, and large language models have enabled effective document understanding, existing systems often operate independently and provide limited support for non-visual navigation, interactive information access, and expressive audio output. The proposed system integrates four main components into a unified framework. First, a voice-guided navigation module enables users to capture documents without visual assistance by providing real-time audio guidance, ensuring proper alignment and reliable image acquisition for text recognition. Second, a Tamil document understanding and question answering module processes document content and supports accurate, context-aware information retrieval using a retrieval-based approach, while also providing personalized content recommendations. Third, a voice-assisted Sinhala reading module allows users to navigate documents and access information using natural voice commands and semantic processing. Finally, an emotional text-to-speech module generates expressive speech in Sinhala and Tamil, improving the naturalness and clarity of audio output. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system improves document capture accuracy, navigation efficiency, information retrieval performance, and speech quality. Overall, the system provides a practical, accessible, and user-centered solution for intelligent document interaction in underrepresented languages.
ML-Based System to Detect GPS Spoofing and Signal Jamming via Signal Logs
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026-08-04) Harshani S.U.E; Wickramasinghe V.D.A; Muthukuda M.A.D.H.N; Siriwardhane H.H.D.V.; Siriwardana, D; Wijesooriya, A
This paper describes the design, implementation, and analysis of a machine learning-based and forensic-grade desktop system to detect GPS spoofing attacks and signal jamming attacks. The system processes telemetry logs collected from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and other GNSS-enabled systems to detect any malicious signal manipulations and disruptions. It utilizes a pipeline comprising modules: GPS logging, feature extraction, and an unsupervised machine learning detection engine based on Isolation Forest, One-Class SVM, and LSTM Autoencoder models. The system learns the normal behavioral patterns and is trained on actual GPS data, therefore, identifying the previously unknown attacks. One of the contributions is that forensic concepts, such as hash-SHA-256, chain-of-custody logging, and read-only processing, are factored into the human process, thus supporting evidence integrity and traceability. The system generates elaborate visual and textual reports, giving a user-friendly timeline of the attack with severity ratings. Through the experiment with real and synthetic interfered datasets, the system is found to be effective in predictably distinguishing between spoofing (jumping coordinates and unrealistic kinematics) and jamming (significantly lost signal and large drift variance) with substantial detection. This tool offers an essential feature to cybersecurity forensic investigators, drone operators, and other critical infrastructure defenders to diagnose and record GNSS susceptibility.
An Ethical and Emotionally Intelligent Social Media Plugin Using Responsible & Explainable AI
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026-08-04) Wickremasinghe N.S.; Ullandupitiya U.P.L.I.; Jayawardena D.S; Jayanetti J.K.D.S.D; Rathnayake S.; Nawarathne M.
Social media platforms encounter ongoing difficulties with fragmented moderation and interaction operations that do not collaborate effectively to deal with destructive content, inauthentic behavior, emotion-insensitive interaction, and opaque recommendations. This paper features an ethical and emotionally intelligent social media plugin using responsible and explainable AI implemented as a unified real-time service for social media applications, proven through implementation on the Open-Source Social Network (OSSN). The plugin incorporates four elements, namely multimodal cyberbullying detection, behavior-based social bot detection, explainable friend recommendation, and an emotion-aware reaction system. The cyberbullying module is a combination of transformer-based text analysis, image processing, OCR, and keyword fusion to moderate content in an explainable manner, and the fake account module uses temporal behavioral features to detect bot accounts regardless of content. The recommendation system offers interpretable recommendations with context, and the emotion-aware module provides empathetic interaction via emotion recognition and filtering. Experimental results indicate high performance across task-appropriate metrics such as accuracy for classification tasks and MCC/ROC-AUC for bot detection due to class imbalance, yielding 88.60% on text-based cyberbullying, 68.81% on image moderation, MCC 0.9704 and ROC-AUC 0.9981 on bot detection, and 73.10% F1 on sarcasm detection. The outcomes of deployments demonstrate the potential of a single, transparent, and responsible AI system to have safer and more meaningful social media interactions
Smart Heritage: A Blockchain and NFT Framework for Secure Authentication and Fractional Investment in Sri Lankan Handicrafts
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2026-07-06) Manohara K.K.K; Dharmasena E.A.H.T.; Rajapaksha D.N; Bandara H.D; Chamara, D; Abeywardena, K.Y; Nismi, N
The Sri Lankan handicraft sector possesses significant cultural and economic value; however, counterfeit production, limited ownership traceability, and the absence of resale royalty mechanisms restrict its global scalability. Traditional systems fail to provide reliable provenance verification and sustainable financial benefits for artisans and previous owners. This paper proposes a blockchain-enabled ecosystem integrating Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), NFC-based authentication, fractional ownership, and a smart security box to enhance authenticity, transparency, and value creation. Each handicraft is linked to a unique NFT and a cryptographically secured NFC tag, creating a tamper-resistant connection between the physical artifact and its digital identity. Smart contracts enable transparent ownership tracking and automated lifetime royalty distribution, ensuring artisans receive royalties from every future resale without intermediaries. The proposed framework also introduces a fractional ownership model for culturally significant, non-commercial heritage artifacts, enabling collective digital ownership with tiered access to exclusive cultural content while distributing cascading royalties to previous shareholders upon resale. A smart security box with NFC further protects high-value physical artifacts. Prototype evaluation on an Ethereum-compatible test network achieved a 100% success rate across 24 smart contract unit tests, 100% NFC authentication accuracy for 12 handicraft items with average response times of 380-450 ms, and consistent royalty and Proof-of-Residency distribution across nine simulated resale transactions. The key contributions of this work are: (1) a cryptographic NFC-NFT binding mechanism resistant to tag cloning, (2) a smart contract-based lifetime royalty engine with previous-owner redistribution, and (3) a fractional community ownership model that supports global participation in preserving non-commercial cultural heritage. The proposed architecture demonstrates the potential of blockchain technology to preserve cultural heritage while creating a sustainable economic ecosystem for artisans and investors.
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