Research Publications Authored by SLIIT Staff

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tAssessee: Automatically Assessing Quality of Tea Leaves using Image Processing Techniques
(IEEE, 2022-11-30) Sivalingam, J; Sivachandrabose, L.N; Loganathan, M; Sivakumaran, J; Panchendrarajan, R
Sri Lanka is one of the well-known international’s pinnacle tea exporters with a high global demand attracting millions of foreign exchanges, which strengthens the economy of the country. Despite the fact that tea brings a good source of foreign exchange, the tea industry lacks efficiency and effectiveness during the assessment of plucked tea leaves which compromises the significant quality of tea. While studies have revealed various factors affecting the tea quality, key factors are identified as the presence of tea diseases, pest attacks, the mixture of fresh and mature tea leaves, and the mixture of tea grades present in the tea sack. In this paper, we focus on automatically assessing the quality of tea leaves for a single tea leaf and bulk tea leaves before initiating the tea manufacturing process. The proposed tAssessee system allows the user to upload the image of a single tea leaf or bulk tea leaves to automatically assess four different quality factors of tea leaves such as disease, pest attack, freshness, and grade using Convolutional Neural Network based models and using various image processing techniques. This will assist the tea supervisors in the tea factories to automatically assess the quality of tea leaves where the manufacturing process can be segregated according to the quality of tea leaves and determine the pricing accordingly. Extensive experiments performed using the tea leaves images gathered in tea factories reveal, that the proposed tAssessee system can assess the quality of single tea leaf and bulk tea leaves with the accuracy range of 87% - 98% and 91% - 100% respectively.
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Cocopal - A Deep Learning Based Intelligent System to Certify and Standardize the Quality of Coconut Based Products
(IEEE, 2022-12-09) Gunawardana, K.H.R.; Deshan, M.P.N.; Hemachandra, M.G.S.P.; Ganegoda, D; Hettiarachchi, N. M; Weerasinghe, L
The procedure of certifying and standardizing the quality of the coconut-based products is done manually in Sri Lanka at precent. It is a time consuming and labor-intensive task and is conducted by experts. In most cases, the quality is decided solely by visual inspections by buyers and suppliers, with no scientific basis. The paper reports the capacity of bringing modern technology solutions such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Image Processing (IP), and decentralized storage to aid in the certification and standardization of the quality of raw materials.Results showed that the accuracy of the proposed system is in the 86% to 90% range and showed that this technique could beimproved and used as an alternative to manual techniques.
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Yield and quality of tomato as affected by rainfall during different growth stages
(Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya: Peradeniya, 1997) Weerakkody, W. A. P; Peiris, C. N; Jayasekara, S. J. B. A
Cultivation of tomato (Lvcopersicon esculentum) is severely affected during the peak rainy periods in Sri Lanka, which leads to a seasonality in production andfluctuation ofprices. To study the nature of rain damage and to identify the critical growth stages prone to rain damage, staggered planting of tomato was practiced in the Mid Country Intermediate Zone during the Maha season. The rain damage was evaluated in terms of yield components, yield andfruit quality. During the vegetative growth and early flowering, rainfall was positively correlated with yield components andfruit quality. However, rainfall received during the late flowering phase reduced the weight andfinal number of fruits. During fruit growth, rainfall was positively correlated with fruit cracking andjuice pH. A negative correlation existed with other fruit defects. Hence, positive effects cf rainfall during vegetative growth and negative effects ofrainfall during reproductive growth were evident. Late flowering andfruit ripening stages were identified as critical for yield components while fruit growth andfruit ripenug stages were identified as critical for fruit quality.
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Assuring Standards and Quality of Higher Education: Teaching and Learning
(Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN) Conference and AGM 2016, 2016-05-26) Peiris, C. N; Peiris, S; Wickramasinghe, S
Objectives and Measurements • to investigate the effectiveness of teaching methods on students’ academic performance and to understand what measurements that someone could apply to improve the learning process. • Measurements: • Various qualities of the teacher • Feedback from Students • Learning Resources

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