- Faculty of Engineering
- Department of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering
- Senior Lecturer Grade I
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Contact information
Department of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Moratuwa
Moratuwa
10400
Teaching and Administrative Activities
Signals and Systems -Undergraduate -2016
Machine Vision -Undergraduate -2017
Communication Skills -Undergraduate -2017
Fundamentals of Image Processing and Machine Vision -Undergraduate -2016
Vision Based Automation -Postgraduate -2016
Chairman, Center for Open and Distance Learning -University of Moratuwa offers its Bachelor of Information Technology External degree through CODL. (2011 To 2015)
Head of the Department -Head of the Department (2021 To 2024)
Member of Senate Research Commitee -Contributing to the SRC activities. Overseeing the SRC grants and their progress. Evaluating SRC grant applications, where applicable. (2014 To 2024)
Head of the Department - Head of the Department (2022 To 2023)
Research Activities
Computer Vision
Deep learning for vision
Computer Vision
Education and Professional Affiliations
Master's, Western University of Canada ,2005 Master of Engineering Science
Ph.D., Western University of Canada ,2008 Doctor of Philosophy
Bachelors, The University fo Moratuwa ,2001 Bachelor of Science of Engineering Honors in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
Senior Member of the Institute to Electronic and Electrical Engineers IEEE and IEEE Computer Society(2010 To date)
Career
Honours and Awards
President’s Award for Scientific Publication (Received 2014)
Publications*
Sathursan Kanagarajah and Thanuja Ambegoda, Ranga Rodrigo,".SATHUR: Self Augmenting Task Hallucinal Unified Representation for Generalized Class Incremental Learning.",IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop,Paris, France,2023,3473-3480
Oshada Jayasinghe, Sahan Hemachandra, Damith Anhettigama, Shenali Kariyawasam, Tharindu Wickremasinghe, Chalani Ekanayake, Ranga Rodrigo and Peshala Jayasekara,".Towards Real-time Traffic Sign and Traffic Light Detection on Embedded Systems.",IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV),Aachen, Germany,2022,723-728
Arulmolivarman Thieshanthan, Amashi Niwarthana, Pamuditha Somarathne, Tharindu Wickremasinghe, Ranga Rodrigo,".HPGNN: Using Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks for Outdoor Point Cloud Processing.",International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR),Montreal, QC, Canada,2022,2700-2706
Mohamed Afham, Isuru Dissanayake, Dinithi Dissanayake, Amaya Dharmasiri, Kanchana Thilakarathna, Ranga Rodrigo,".Crosspoint: Self-supervised cross-modal contrastive learning for 3d point cloud understanding.",IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,New Orleans, LA,2022,9902-9912
Oshada Jayasinghe, Sahan Hemachandra, Damith Anhettigama, Shenali Kariyawasam, Ranga Rodrigo, Peshala Jayasekara,".Ceymo: See more on roads-a novel benchmark dataset for road marking detection.",IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision,Wikola, HI,2022,3104-3113
Kumara Kahatapitiya, and Ranga Rodrigo,".Exploiting the Redundancy in Convolutional Filters for Parameter Reduction.",IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision,Waikoloa, HI (virtual,2021,1409-1419
Dumindu Tissera, Kasun Vithanage, Rukshan Wijesinghe, Kumara Kahatapitiya, Subha Fernando, and Ranga Rodrigo,".Feature-Dependant Cross-Connections in Multi-Path Neural Networks.",International Conference on Pattern Recognition,Milan, Italy,2021,4032-4039
Alex Xavier, Dumindu Tissera, Rukshan Wijesinghe, Kasun Vithanage, Ranga Rodrigo, Subha Fernando, and Sanath Jayasena,".On Large-Batch Training of Residual Networks with SignSGD.",International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence ,Virtual Event, United Kingdom,2021,23–30
Naveen Karunanayake, Achintha Wijesinghe, Chameera Wijethunga, Chinthani Kumaradasa, Peshala Jayasekara, Ranga Rodrigo,".Towards a Smart Opponent for Board Games: Learning beyond Simulations.",2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC),Toronto, ON (virtual),2020,1943-1950
Adhitha Dias, Hasitha Wellaboda, Yasod Rasanka, Menusha Munasinghe, Ranga Rodrigo, Peshala Jayasekara,".Deep Learning of Augmented Reality based Human Interactions for Automating a Robot Team.",2020 6th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR),Singapore,2020,175-182
Dumindu Tissera, Kasun Vithanage, Rukshan Wijesinghe, Kumara Kahatapitiya, Subha Fernando, Ranga Rodrigo,".Feature-Dependent Cross-Connections in Multi-Path Neural Networks.",2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR),Milano, Italy (virtual),2020,4032-4039
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Ravindu Kumarasiri, Akila Niroshan, Zaman Lantra, Thanuja Madusanka, Chamira US Edussooriya, Ranga Rodrigo,".Gait Analysis Using RGBD Sensors.",International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision,Singapore,2018,460-465
Dishanika Denipitiyage, Vinoj Jayasundara, Ranga Rodrigo, Chamira US Edussooriya,".PointCaps: Raw point cloud processing using capsule networks with Euclidean distance routing.",Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation,88,2022
Dumindu Tissera, Kasun Vithanage, Rukshan Wijesinghe, Alex Xavier, Sanath Jayasena, Subha Fernando, Ranga Rodrigo,".Neural mixture models with expectation-maximization for end-to-end deep clustering.",Neurocomputing,505,2022
Kavinda Kehelella, Gayangana Leelarathne, Dhanuka Marasinghe, Nisal Kariyawasam, Viduneth Ariyarathna, Arjuna Madanayake, Ranga Rodrigo, Chamira US Edussooriya,".Vision Transformer with Convolutional Encoder–Decoder for Hand Gesture Recognition using 24-GHz Doppler Radar.",IEEE Sensors Letters,6,2022
Sameera Ramasinghe, Jathushan Rajasegaran, Vinoj Jayasundara, Kanchana Ranasinghe, Ranga Rodrigo, Ajith A Pasqua,".Combined Static and Motion Features for Deep-Networks Based Activity Recognition in Videos.",IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,29,2019
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