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Publication Embargo VirtualPT: Virtual Reality based Home Care Physiotherapy Rehabilitation for Elderly(2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Heiyanthuduwa, T.A.; Amarapala, K.W.N.U.; Gunathilaka, K.D.V.B.; Ravindu, K.S.; Wickramarathne, J.; Kasthurirathna, D.This paper describes the development of Personal computer based Virtual Reality home-care Physiotherapy system aimed for rehabilitating full body function in elders. VirtualPT is a true virtual reality platform where the environment is completely replaced by a virtual reality platform based on the mental condition of the person at the time. While doing the home-based prescribed physiotherapy exercises, the key health metrics are continuously monitored and tracked by combining the immersive Virtual Reality with the wearable VirtualPT Sensor kit. Virtual Reality combined with 3D motion capture lets real time movements to be accurately translated onto the virtual reality avatar that can be viewed in a virtual environment to assist physiotherapist to add exercises to the system easily. This ultimate virtual reality Physiotherapy assistant avatar is used to provide guidance to elders at home, to demonstrate and assist elders in adhering to the prescribed exercises. As a significant aspect of social interactions, mirroring of movements has been added to focus on whether the elder is able to accurately follow the movements of avatar. Furthermore, the insightful dashboard offers the elders and physiotherapists an interactive platform through virtual reality capabilities. VirtualPT physiotherapy system is cost effective and makes recovery and more convenient to elders at home while the participatory and immersive nature of Virtual Reality offers a unique realistic quality that is not generally existing in clinical-based physiotherapy. When looking at the broader concept of VirtualPT; continuity of care, integration of services, quality of life and access are equally important criteria which add more value.Publication Embargo Smart Backpack for Travelers(2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Gunarathne, P.D.R.P.; Amarasuriya, R.M.C.I.; Wickramasinghe, W.A.D.D.; Witharana, A.H.T.N.; Abeygunawardhana, P.K.W.Smart backpack is an application-specific design which guarantees a safe journey for travelers. The smart backpack has a different combination of services connected to a single system. It has a unique design that helps to fulfill its services. The system provides the health status of travelers and environmental status by measuring the quality level of the nearby atmosphere. As a security feature, it contains a human detective sensor-based security system. As well as the research consists of an undying power resource which charges by solar cells, the power source can be used to power up the system and to recharge traveler's devices through a USB power outlet. The Backpack has a user-friendly mobile application. This system also provides a health monitoring feature, which monitors the heart rate and body temperature of the traveler. The traveler can share his/her health status with the system and compute the real-time health condition from the outputs of the health sensors integrated into the backpack. The bag model design and building play a major role and has removable unique mini compartments for all hardware components. It should carry maximum weight with minimum pressure for the back of the traveler with minimum cost.Publication Embargo Sinhala Conversational Interface for Appointment Management and Medical Advice(2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Rajapakshe, D. D. S.; Kudawithana, K. N. B.; Uswatte, U. L. N. P.; Nishshanka, N. A. B. D.; Piyawardana, A. V. S.; Pulasinghe, K. N.This paper proposes an intelligent conversational user interface to assist Sinhala speaking users to make appointments with doctors and to obtain medical advices. This Sinhala Conversational Interface for Appointment Management and Medical Advice (SCI-AMMA) consists of Speech Recognition unit, Query Processing unit, Dialog Management unit, Voice Synthesizer unit, and User Information Management unit to handle user requests and maintain a meaningful dialogue. The SCI-AMMA gets the users' speech utterances and recognize the language content of it for further processing. Language content is further processed using query processing unit to identify users' intent. To fulfil the users' intent, a reply is generated from Dialogue Management Unit. This reply/answer will be delivered to the user by means of a voice synthesizer. The proposed system is successfully implemented using state of the art technology stack including Flutter, Python, Protégé and Firebase. Performance of the system is demonstrated using several sample scenarios/dialogues.Publication Embargo Secure Messaging Platform Based on Blockchain(2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Ellewala, U. P.; Amarasena, W.D.H.U; Lakmali, H.V.S.; Senanayaka, L.M.K.; Senarathne, A. N.The boundaries between personal and business communications is a key issue faced by most organizations. Use of unsecured and unsafe applications in workplaces pose enormous security risks. Companies are not adequately aware about the applications that are being used in their employees' devices. When it comes to critical business communication involving exchanging trade secrets, making business referrals and strategic business decisions, protecting of messages and shared files becomes a challenge. Most publicly available communication platforms do not empower organizations to regulate, track and scale their communication and does not provide compliance with data protection frameworks, which can result in cross industry system risks. As a result, both individuals and organizations express deep concern about data security and protection of privacy when using Instant Messaging applications. Non-repudiation in communications not only conveys to the user, recognition of the communication process, but it is also a crucial way to establish a relationship of trust and to overcome trust disputes. Our primary objective, through this research, is to develop a chat application with more secure channels of enterprise level communication. Using new technologies such as blockchain, which operate on a decentralized model, we can surmount the drawbacks of traditional messaging applications, thereby ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of official data, along with advanced auditing features.Publication Embargo NoFish; Total Anti-Phishing Protection System(2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Atimorathanna, D.N.; Ranaweera, T.S.; Pabasara, R.A.H.D.; Perera, J.R.; Abeywardena, K.Y.Phishing attacks have been identified by researchers as one of the major cyber-attack vectors which the general public has to face today. Although many vendors constantly launch new anti-phishing products, these products cannot prevent all the phishing attacks. The proposed solution, “NoFish” is a total anti-phishing protection system created especially for end-users as well as for organizations. This paper proposes a machine learning & computer vision-based approach for intelligent phishing detection. In this paper, a realtime anti-phishing system, which has been implemented using four main phishing detection mechanisms, is proposed. The system has the following distinguishing properties from related studies in the literature: language independence, use of a considerable amount of phishing and legitimate data, real-time execution, detection of new websites, detecting zero hour phishing attacks and use of feature-rich classifiers, visual image comparison, DNS phishing detection, email client plugin and especially the overall system is designed using a level-based security architecture to reduce the time-consumption. Users can simply download the NoFish browser extension and email plugin to protect themselves, establishing a relatively secure browsing environment. Users are more secure in cyberspace with NoFish which depicts a 97% accuracy level.Publication Embargo Intelligent Disease Detection System for Greenhouse with a Robotic Monitoring System(2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Fernando, S.; Nethmi, R.; Silva, A.; Perera, A.; De Silva, R.; Abeygunawardhana, P.K.W.Greenhouse farming plays a significant role in the agricultural industry because of its controlled climatic features. Recent examinations have stated that the mean creation of the yields under greenhouses is lessening due to disease events in the plants. These foods have become an imposing undertaking because these plants are being assaulted by different bacterial diseases, micro-organisms, and pests. The chemicals are applied to the plants intermittently without thinking about the necessity of each plant. Several problems have occurred in the greenhouse environment due to these causes. Therefore, there is a huge necessity for a system to detect diseases at an early stage. This research focused on designing a system to detect disease, which causes yellowish in greenhouse plants. Plant yellowing can be considered a significant problem of plants that grow under greenhouse-controlled environments. Through this research is focused on the most important and one of the most attentiongrabbing crop tomato. There are specific diseases that cause yellowish the tomato plant, and they have been identified. The techniques utilized for early recognition of infection are image processing, machine learning, and deep learning.Publication Embargo IoT Based Sign Language Recognition System(2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Punsara, K.K.T.; Premachandra, H.H.R.C.; Chanaka, A.W.A.D.; Wijayawickrama, R.V.; Abhayasinghe, N.; De Silva, R.Sign language is the key communication medium, which deaf and mute people use in their day - to-day life. Talking to disabled people will cause a difficult situation since a non-mute person cannot understand their hand gestures and in many instances, mute people are hearing impaired. Same as Sinhala, Tamil, English, or any other language, sign language also tend to have differences according to the region. This paper is an attempt to assist deaf and mute people to develop an effective communication mechanism with non-mute people. The end product of this project is a combination of a mobile application that can translate the sign language into digital voice and loT-enabled, light-weighted wearable glove, which capable of recognizing twenty-six English alphabet, digits, and words. Better user experience provides with voice-to-text feature in mobile application to reduce the communication gap within mute and non-mute communities. Research findings and results from the current system visualize the output of the product can be optimized up to 25 % -35 % with an enhanced pattern recognition mechanism.Publication Embargo DenGue CarB: Mosquito Identification and Classification using Machine Learning(2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Mohommed, M.; Rajakaruna, P.; Kehelpannala, N.; Perera, A.; Abeysiri, L.This research paper discusses a web-based application that assists Public Health Officers in the dengue identification process. The mosquito classification is done using image processing and machine learning techniques. The training models are developed using Convolutional Neural Networks Algorithm, Support Vector Machine Algorithm, and K-Nearest Neighbors Algorithm to validate the results to determine the most accurate and suitable algorithm. this paper discusses the previous related research work on its significance and drawbacks while highlighting design, methods, and implementation in the solution. We conclude that the CNN algorithm provides the highest accuracy among the machine learning techniques used.Publication Embargo Deepfake Audio Detection: A Deep Learning Based Solution for Group Conversations(2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Wijethunga, R.L.M.A.P.C.; Matheesha, D.M.K.; Al Noman, A.; De Silva, K.H.V.T.A.; Tissera, M.; Rupasinghe, L.The recent advancements in deep learning and other related technologies have led to improvements in various areas such as computer vision, bio-informatics, and speech recognition etc. This research mainly focuses on a problem with synthetic speech and speaker diarization. The developments in audio have resulted in deep learning models capable of replicating naturalsounding voice also known as text-to-speech (TTS) systems. This technology could be manipulated for malicious purposes such as deepfakes, impersonation, or spoofing attacks. We propose a system that has the capability of distinguishing between real and synthetic speech in group conversations.We built Deep Neural Network models and integrated them into a single solution using different datasets, including but not limited to Urban- Sound8K (5.6GB), Conversational (12.2GB), AMI-Corpus (5GB), and FakeOrReal (4GB). Our proposed approach consists of four main components. The speech-denoising component cleans and preprocesses the audio using Multilayer-Perceptron and Convolutional Neural Network architectures, with 93% and 94% accuracies accordingly. The speaker diarization was implemented using two different approaches, Natural Language Processing for text conversion with 93% accuracy and Recurrent Neural Network model for speaker labeling with 80% accuracy and 0.52 Diarization-Error-Rate. The final component distinguishes between real and fake audio using a CNN architecture with 94% accuracy. With these findings, this research will contribute immensely to the domain of speech analysis.Publication Embargo An Integrated Framework for Predicting Health Based on Sensor Data Using Machine Learning(2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Jayaweera, K.N.; Kallora, K.M.C.; Subasinghe, N.A.C.K.; Rupasinghe, L.; Liyanapathirana, C.According to recent studies, the majority of the world's population shows a lack of concern in their health. As a consequence, the non-communicable disease rate has increased dramatically. Amongst these diseases, heart diseases have caused the most catastrophic situations. Apart from the busy lifestyle, studies also show that stress is another factor that causes these diseases. Therefore, the focus of our research is to provide a user-friendly health monitoring system that causes minimum disturbance to its users. However, many studies have focused on predicting health; very few have focused on its usability. The objective of our research is to predict the possibility of cardiac arrests and the presence of stress in real-time using a wearable device prototype. The system uses biometric signals obtained from the photoplethysmogram sensor embedded in the wearable device to perform real-time predictions. We trained three models using random forest, k-nearest neighbor, and logistic regression classification algorithms to predict sudden cardiac arrests with accuracies 99.93%, 99.10%, and 94.47%, respectively. Further, we trained three additional models to predict stress using the same algorithms with accuracies 99.87%, 96.83%, and 65.00%, respectively. Thus, the results of this study show that an integrated framework, capable of predicting different health-related conditions, through sensor data collected from wearable sensors, is feasible.
