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    Image Processing-Based Solution to Repel Crop-Damaging Wild Animals
    (Springer, 2023-02-03) Fernando, W. P. S.; Madhubhashana, I. K.; Gunasekara, D. N. B. A.; Gogerly, Y. D.; Karunasena, A; Supunya, R
    Two-thirds of Sri Lanka’s population is directly dependent on agriculture, which generates one-third of the nation’s GDP. However, crop efficiency in Sri Lanka has declined over the years due to several issues including sub-farm maintenance, destruction caused by wild animals, and unethical farming practices. Among them, the destruction caused by wild animals has led to conflicts between animals and humans causing loss of both animals and human lives in the past. There are a number of technical solutions proposed to solve the above problem, especially in the form of animal repellants. However, such solutions have several limitations, such as the small number of animal groups to be identified and the short distances they can be detected, and the lack of understanding of harmful animal populations. This research proposes an animal-repellent methodology considering several features of animals such as colors, coats, shape, and noise made by animals both in daytime and nighttime. The number of animals approaching crops is also detected and the behavior of animals is monitored to avoid false alarms. The research uses a wide range of techniques such as image processing and deep learning for the above purpose on audio, visual, and image data sets collected from the mentioned animal groups. The solution demonstrated a 90% accuracy for animal identification during the day, and 84% accuracy for animal 2 W. P. S. Fernando et al. identification at night, whereas the accuracy of studying animal behavior patterns is 90% and animal sounds were identified with 87% accuracy
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    CEYLAGRO: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACH FOR AN OPTIMIZED AND CENTRALIZED AGRICULITURE PLATFORM
    (2020 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), SLIIT, 2020-12-10) Kaushalya, T.V.H.; Wijewardana, B.Y.S.; Karunasena, A.; Kavishika, M.G.G.; Gamage, S.T.A; Weerasinghe, L.
    Sri Lankan Agriculture sector can be considered as a crucial component as it contributes 18% of country GDP. As native farmers still cling to inapplicable traditional theorems and practices to track customer’s vegetable consumption trends, they failed to assure a “good price” for their harvest. Also, the plants are prone to many diseases and pests’ attacks which causes loss of the harvest. Unreliable problem identification, poor knowledge on application of fertilizers and pesticides have caused the farmers to lose their profits. As a solution to mitigate these problems, this study has built a computerized system with a vegetable price prediction system and a plant disease, pest identification system. Taking Potato as an example, the parameters of the time series model were analyzed through experiment and has built the price predictor using ARIMA model. Also, with advanced Image processing and CNN techniques Plant disease, pest identifier has built. Desirable results of the entire system have been achieved with more than 94%-97% rate of accuracy. The ultimate goal of this study is to achieve the optimal growth of the sector by navigating the users for a quality and effective decision making by reliable market trends and problem identification.