- Faculty of Information Technology
- Department of Information Technology
- Senior Lecturer Grade I
Contact information
Department of Information Technology
Faculty of Information Technology
University of Moratuwa
Moratuwa
10400
Teaching and Administrative Activities
Theory of Programming Languages -Undergraduate -2011
Fundamentals of Mathematics & Statistics -Undergraduate -2011
Web Technologies -Undergraduate -2012
Digital Image Processing -Undergraduate -2012
Theory of Programming Languages -Undergraduate -2012
Theory of Programming Languages -Undergraduate -2012
Higher Performance Computing -Undergraduate -2012
Computer Architecture -Undergraduate -2012
Parallel Processing -Undergraduate -2012
Computer Organization -Undergraduate -2012
Computer Architecture -Undergraduate -2013
Digital Image Processing -Undergraduate -2013
Higher Performance Computing -Undergraduate -2013
Independent Study -Undergraduate -2013
Theory of Programming Languages -Undergraduate -2013
Web Technologies and Internet Programming -Undergraduate -2013
Web Technologies and Internet Programming -Undergraduate -2014
Digital Image Processing -Undergraduate -2014
Computer Organization -Undergraduate -2015
Digital Image Processing -Undergraduate -2015
Computer Architecture -Undergraduate -2015
Higher Performance Computing -Undergraduate -2015
Theory of Programming Languages -Undergraduate -2015
Computer Architecture -Undergraduate -2015
Computer Organization -Undergraduate -2016
Software Engineering -Postgraduate -2012
Software Engineering -Postgraduate -2013
Software Engineering -Postgraduate -2015
Image Processing -Postgraduate -2015
Software Engineering -Postgraduate -2016
Head of the Department -Head of the Department (2012 To date)
Member -Senate (2012 To date)
Member -Faculty Board (2005 To date)
Member -Planning & Development Committee (2012 To 2018)
Member -Senate Higher Degrees (2015 To date)
Member -Curriculum & Evaluation Committee (2015 To date)
Member -Establishing Businees Faculty - Sub Committee (2016 To date)
Invited Member -Board of Graduate Studies (2016 To date)
Member -By-Laws Committee (2015 To 2019)
Member -Leave & Awards (2012 To 2018)
Member -Intellectual Property Advisory Committee (2012 To 2018)
Member -Intellectual Property Assesment Committee (2012 To 2018)
Member -Board of Studies (BIT) (2017 To date)
Research Activities
Image Processing
Computer Vision
3D Reconstruction
Video Content Analysis
UX Engineering
Digital Music Production
e-Learning
Improvement of coronary angiography for quantitative coronary analysis by using a computer vision technique - KASH Kulathilake (MPhil): Completed
Automated pedagogical expert for evaluating web-based e-learning content - SCM de S Sirisuriya (MPhil): Completed
Selection of JPEG steganography algorithms using a feature based model - V Senthooran (MPhil): Completed
Efficient Depiction of Video for Semantic Retrieval Applications by Dimensionality Reduction of Feature Space – A.M.R.R. Bandara (PhD): Completed
Natural Language Based Requirement Elicitation Technique for New Product Development in Apparel Industry – Wasana C. Uduwela (PhD): Ongoing
Oriental Musical Instruments Identification by Selecting Optimize Features and a Suitable Classifier – P. Uruthiran (MPhil): Ongoing
Enhancing Pedagogical Evaluation for Instructional Videos: An automated approach for pedagogical evaluation of instructional videos – G.M.T.K.D.S. Suriyawansa (Mphil): Ongoing
Analytics of Image Posts on Social Media for Hate Speech – K.S.A. Walawage (Mphil): Ongoing
Devising an approach for filtering and monitoring the flow of pre-identified publicly available resources in social media and anomaly detection of social identities in a local area network – Buddhika Hasthanayake (Mphil): Ongoing
Computer Vision
Multimedia Computing
Education and Professional Affiliations
Bachelor, University of Peradeniya ,1999 BSc. (Special) (Hons.)
Masters, University of Colombo ,2005 MSc. in Computer Science
Other, PG Diploma in Distance Education - IGNOU ,2007 PGD DEd.
PhD, University of Malaya ,2011 PhD in Computer Science - Video Content Description
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Bachelors, ,
Masters, ,
Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL)(2005 To date)
Institute of Physics (IPSL)(2000 To date)
Sri Lanka Association of Advancement of Science (SLAAS)(2000 To date)
Internet Society - Srilankan Chapter(2010 To date)
IEEE(2020 To date)
Career
Honours and Awards
CMOAsia Best Professor in Information Technology Management Award 2013 (Received 2013)
University of Malaya Postgraduate Research Excellence Award 2011 (Received 2011)
Commonwealth Scholarship for PhD studies 2007 (Received 2007)
ADB Scholarship Under Ministry of Science and Technology for Postgraduate Studies (2002) (Received 2002)
Best Professor in Information Technology (Received 2017)
Outstanding Research Performance Award (Received 2013)
Outstanding Research Performance Award (Received 2014)
Outstanding Research Performance Award (Received 2015)
Outstanding Research Performance Award (Received 2016)
Outstanding Research Performance Award (Received 2017)
Publications*
Roziati Zainnudin, Aniza Abdullah,".A Novel Framework for Digital Video Processing and Retrieval, Association of Pacific Rim Universities News Letter.",,2010
Priyadarshana, Y.H.P.P., Ranathunga, L., Amalraj, C.R.J., Perera, I.,".HelaNER: A novel approach for nested named entity boundary detection.",EUROCON 2021 - 19th IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies,,Lviv, Ukrain,2021,pp. 119–124
Gayashan, P.P.A., Perera, K.A.V.G., Shashiwadana Nirmani, G.D., Ranathunga, L.,".Old Sinhala Newspaper Article Segmentation for Content Recognition Using Image Processing.",2021 From Innovation To Impact, FITI 2021, 2021,BMICH Colombo, Sri Lanka,2021,1-6
Weligamage, S.U., Bandara, H.M.R.T., Ranathunga, L.,".Cloud Movement Analysis Using Lucas Kanade Method.",2021 3rd International Conference on Electrical Engineering, EECon 2021,,03 November 2021,2021,1-6
K. A. S. H. Kulathilake,G. R. Constantine,N. A. Abdullah ,".Reduction of Motion Disturbances in Coronary Cineangiograms through Template Matching.",,,2014,267-273
K.A.S.H. Kulathilake, G.R. Constantine N.A. Abdullah,".Hierarchical Region Based Template Matching Technique for Global Motion Reduction of Coronary Cineangiograms.",3rd International Conference,Sarawak, Malaysia,2014,
V. Senthooran,".An Investigation of Quantization Table Modification on JPEG Steganography.",8th ICIIS,,2013,
A.M.R.R. Bandara, N. A. Abdullah,".Invariant Properties of a Locally Salient Dither Pattern with a Spatial-Chromatic Histogram.",8th ICIIS,,2013,
C.H.W. Jayawardane, K.T.Mahadewa, M.D.D. Perera,D.A.D.L.U.Premalal, ,".Comprehensive 3D Modeling Using 2D Elevation Sketches.",8th ICIIS,,2013,
S.C.M.de S Sirisuriya, S.P. Karunanayaka, N.A. Abdullah ,".Calibration Checklist to Use in an Automated Pedagogical Evaluation Process of Web Based E-Learning.",8th ICIIS,,2013,
S.C.M. de S Sirisuriya, S.P. Karunanayaka, N.A. Abdullah ,".Can pedagogical evaluation process of web based E-Learning be automated?.",8th International Conference,,2013,650 -655
Y.H.P.P. Priyadarshana, K.K.A. Nipuni N. Perera, V. Karthik, R. Jayaseelan, A.R.K. Abhayawardhana, H.A.K. Sandamali, W.M. Ruvini M.Weerasinghe,".GPS Assisted Traffic Alerting and Road Congestion Reduction Mechanism.",29th Technical Sessions of IPSL,,2013,77-84
Roziati Zainnudin, Aniza Abdullah,".Spatio Concept Relation Accompanied Interface to Bridge Semantic Gap of Video Search and Retrieval.",2012 World Congress,India,2012,733 - 738
Roziati Zainnudin, Aniza Abdullah,".Conventional Video Shot Segmentation to Semantic Shot Segmentation.",6th IEEE International Conference,,2011,186 – 191
Roziati Zainnudin, Aniza Abdullah,".Comparison of Compacted Dither Pattern Codes with Local Colour Histogram.",3rd International Conference,,2010,
Roziati Zainnudin, Aniza Abdullah,".Semantic Visual Search with Feature Space Reduction.",5th ICIAFS,,2010,
Roziati Zainnudin, Aniza Abdullah,".Compacted Dither Pattern Codes Versus Principal Component Analysis in Video Visual Depiction.",ITSIM,,2010,1–6
Roziati Zainnudin, Aniza Abdullah,".Reduction of Visual Feature Space with Compacted Dither Pattern Codes and Depiction of Irregular Shapes Based Visual Concepts in Video.",APRUDSC 2010,Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta,2010,
Roziati Zainnudin, Aniza Abdullah,".Evaluation of Best Fit Video Visual Classifier for Compacted Dither Pattern Codes.",4th ICIIS 2009 IEEE International Conference,,2009,
Aniza Abdullah, Roziati Zainnudin, ,".Analysis of Video Content in Multi Codec Formats with Compacted Dither Coding.",ICIAFS 2008,,2008,48 – 54
Roziati Zainnudin, Aniza Abdullah,".Reduction of Syntactic Video Data Clustering Complexity in Processing with Compacted Dither Coding.",ITSIM 2008,,2008,
Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Imiyage Janaka Prasad Wijesena, Adrian David Cheok, Ajith Parakum Madurapperuma, Mei Gangwen, Miyuru Dayarathna, Srinivasan, Mariappan(a), Lee Rui Jie Jerome,".Media Me: Body and Personal Media Interaction.",Ninth International Conference ,,2007,
D.D.I.D.S. Abeyrathne, R.A.N.Ranasinghe, M.D.D.Udara ,".iMTracer - Intelligent Mobile Route Tracer with Map Guide.",International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems,,2007,
,".Electronic Document Management Systems for Modern Business Challenges.",International Conference on Influence of Change Management,,2006,
N.D.Kodikara ,".Impact of Three dimensional virtual environmental models on asynchronous e-Learning .",21st Technical Session ,,2005,
U.K.D.Sugathadasa ,".Identification of training courses at TVET institutions.",,,2005,
K.L. Gamini, M.L. Thenabadu ,".Study to evaluate the tendency of A/L & O/L schoolgirls being attracted towards government technical and vocational education sector .",,,2005,
Ravimal Bandara; Lochandaka Ranathunga; Nor Aniza Abdullah; ,".Deep learned compact binary descriptor with a lightweight network-in-network architecture for visual description.",The Visual Computer,37 (2),2021
Ravimal Bandara; Lochandaka Ranathunga; Nor Aniza Abdullah; ,".Nature Inspired Dimensional Reduction Technique for Fast and Invariant Visual Feature Extraction.", International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering ,Volume 8, No.3, ,2019
K. A. S. H. Kulathilake,G. R. ConstantineN. A. Abdullah,".Hierarchical Region Based Template Matching Technique for Global Motion Reduction of Coronary Cineangiograms .",International,vol. 7,2015
Lochandaka Ranathunga, Aniza Abdullah, Roziati Zainnudin ,".User's Visual Intention Driven Retrieval Model For Semantic Video Searcha and Retrieval.",Malaysian Journal off Computer Science, Vol.25(4),2012
Lochanda Ranathunga, Roziati Zainnudin, Aniza Abdullah ,".Performance Evaluation of the Combination of Compacted Dither Pattern Codes with Bhattacharyya Classifier in Video Visual Concept Depiction.",Multimedia Tools and Applications,,2010
Roziati Zainnudin, Aniza Abdullah,".Compacted Dither Pattern Codes Over MPEG-7 Dominant Colour Descriptor In Video Visual Depiction.",Malaysian Journal of Computer Science,Vol.23(2),2010
L. Ranathunga,".Modeling Telepathy Computers for Next Era .",NITESL,vol. 1,2000
Journal Publications:
Performance Evaluation of the Combination of Compacted Dither Pattern Codes with Bhattacharyya Classifier in Video Visual Concept Depiction, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer Publication, ISSN:1380-7501 & 1573-7721 (Online first), indexed in ISI Sci., SCOPUS, Computer Science, etc.(2010), Lochandaka Ranathunga, Roziati Zainnudin, Nor Aniza Abdullah
Compacted Dither Pattern Codes Over MPEG-7 Dominant Colour Descriptor In Video Visual Depiction, Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, Vol.23(2), 2010, ISSN:0127-9084, indexed in ISI Sci., SCOPUS (2010), Lochandaka Ranathunga, Roziati Zainnudin, Nor Aniza Abdullah
Modeling Telepathy Computers for Next Era – NITESL Journal, ISSN 1800 –174 (2006), Ranathunga
Conference Proceedings:
News Articles:
Thesis Documents:
Conventional video shot segmentation to semantic shot segmentation, 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), 2011, 16-19 Aug. 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4577-0032-3 IEEExplore,pp.186 - 191,(2011),Lochandaka Ranathunga, Roziati Zainnudin, Nor Aniza Abdullah
Comparison of Compacted Dither Pattern Codes with Local Colour Histogram, 3rd International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV) 2010, 28-30 Dec. 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4244-8888-9 (To be published in IEEExplore and indexed in ISI Sci.),(2010), Lochandaka Ranathunga, Roziati Zainnudin, Nor Aniza Abdullah
Semantic Visual Search with Feature Space Reduction, 5th ICIAFS 2010, 17-19 Dec. 2010, ISBN: 978-1-4244-8551-2 (IEEExplore), (2010), Lochandaka Ranathunga, Roziati Zainnudin, Nor Aniza Abdullah
Compacted Dither Pattern Codes Versus Principal Component Analysis in Video Visual Depiction, ITSIM 2010, 15-17 June 2010, ISSN:2155-897, pp.1–6, (IEEExplore), (2010), Lochandaka Ranathunga, Roziati Zainnudin, Nor Aniza Abdullah
Reduction of Visual Feature Space with Compacted Dither Pattern Codes and Depiction of Irregular Shapes Based Visual Concepts in Video, 11th Association of Pacific Rim Universities Doctoral Students Conference (APRUDSC 2010), 12-16 July 2010, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, (2010), Lochandaka Ranathunga, Roziati Zainnudin, Nor Aniza Abdullah
Evaluation of Best Fit Video Visual Classifier for Compacted Dither Pattern Codes, 4th ICIIS 2009 IEEE International Conference, 28-31 Dec. 2009, ISBN 978-1-4244-4837-1, (IEEExplore), (2009), Lochandaka Ranathunga, Roziati Zainnudin, Nor Aniza Abdullah
Analysis of Video Content in Multi Codec Formats with Compacted Dither Coding, ICIAFS 2008, Dec. 2008 Page(s):48 – 54, (2008), Lochandaka Ranathunga, Nor Aniza Abdullah, Roziati Zainnudin,
Reduction of Syntactic Video Data Clustering Complexity in Processing with Compacted Dither Coding: International Symposium on Information Technology 2008, ITSIM’08, (2008), Lochandaka Ranathunga, Roziati Zainnudin, Nor Aniza Abdullah
Media Me: Body and Personal Media Interaction – Ninth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) 2007,Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Imiyage Janaka Prasad Wijesena, Adrian David Cheok, Ajith Parakum Madurapperuma,Lochandaka Ranathunga, Mei Gangwen, Miyuru Dayarathna, Srinivasan, Mariappan(a), and Lee Rui Jie Jerome
iMTracer - Intelligent Mobile Route Tracer with Map Guide, International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, IEEE Sri Lanka Section, (2007), Abeyrathne D.D.I.D.S., Ranasinghe R.A.N. , Udara M.D.D. , Ranathunga L.
Electronic Document Management Systems for Modern Business Challenges - International Conference on Influence of Change Management of TVET Sector to Entrepreneurship Development, (2006), Ranathunga L.
Impact of Three dimensional virtual environmental models on asynchronous e-Learning – (2005), 21st Technical Session of IPSL- (2005),Ranathunga L., Kodikara N.D
Identification of training courses at TVET institutions, which can introduce different levels of e-learning training systems and propose implementation plan to introduce e-learning system for the sector – (2005), Research Convention of TVET sector – (2005), Ranathunga L., Sugathadasa U.K.D
Study to evaluate the tendency of A/L & O/L schoolgirls being attracted towards government technical and vocational education sector - (2005), Research Convention of TVET sector – (2005), Ranathunga L. Gamini K.L, Thenabadu M.L.
A Novel Framework for Digital Video Processing and Retrieval, Association of Pacific Rim Universities News Letter, October 2010 issue, pp. 13, (2010), Lochandaka Ranathunga, Roziati Zainnudin, Nor Aniza Abdullah
Video Visual Feature Space Reduction and Semantic Search for Visual Content Retrieval - (April 2011), Ranathunga L - PhD Thesis
Asynchronous E-Learning material development for the module of Visual Computing with 3D learning models –(December, 2004),Ranathunga L - MSc Thesis
Study of Dust Content in AIR – (1999), Ranathunga L– BSc (Special) Thesis
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