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    Hastha: Online Learning Platform for Hearing Impaired
    (IEEE, 2022-11-30) Wanasinghe, D; Maddugoda, C; Ramawickrama, H; Munasinghe, T; Abeywardhana, L; Mallawarachchi, Y
    Sign language is the primary means of communication for the hearing-impaired community. Introducing a learning platform can result in many ways to make learning more accessible for the hearing-impaired community of Sri Lanka. Although many approaches are being made to build such systems, the learning platform “Hastha” aims to provide a more interactive outcome with a component that converts Youlhbe videos to sign language and a Chatbot component that acts as an intermediary between a hearing-impaired user and a Google Search Engine. Furthermore, it includes a game-based learning platform and a gesture translation component from Sri Lankan to American Sign Language while the results are displayed to the users in the form of an animation. The proposed methodology is achieved by using Natural Language Processing, speech recognition, and machine learning techniques. This web-based application enables increased interaction between the student and the system making it an effective learning environment for the hearing impaired.
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    Vanguard: A Blockchain-based Solution to Digital Piracy
    (Global Journals, 2021-01-13) Jayasinghe, Y; Abeywardena, K. Y; Munasinghe, T; Mannage, S; Warnasooriya, T; Edirisinghe, G
    Online pirates and Intellectual Property (IP) holders have been in perpetual war over various products like music, movies, software, etc. since the popularity of the Internet. It is estimated that the US entertainment industry loses approximately 29 billion USD every year for pirates. Online piracy has since gone from bad to worse as growing internet users and better broadband connections enable people to share large files freely over the internet. The objective of this research is to investigate the causes and enablers for online piracy in movie industry and to come up with an anti-pirating solution. The primary outcome of the study will consist of a dedicated blockchain based anti-piracy system, ‘Vanguard’. This system will provide all-round piracy protection from a built-in streaming service to a component to actively look through the internet for pirated movies and torrents. This system will greatly deter the piracy of movies since the IP holders can ensure their IP rights through this system and quickly act against illegitimate distribution of their media