Perception Enhanced Virtual Environment for Maritime Applications

This paper presents the development of a realtimeperception enhanced virtual environment for maritimeapplications which simulates real-time six degrees of freedomship motions (pitch, heave, roll, surge, sway, and yaw) underuser interactions, environmental conditions and various threatscenarios. This simulation system consists of reliable shipmotion prediction system and perception enhanced immersivevirtual environment with greater ecological validity. Thisvirtual environment supports multiple-display viewing that cangreatly enhance user perception and we developed the ecologicalenvironment for strong sensation of immersion. In this virtualenvironment it is possible to incorporate real world ships,geographical sceneries, several environmental conditions andwide range of visibility and illumination effects. This system canbe used for both entertainment and educational applications suchas consol level computer games, teaching & learning applicationsand various virtual reality applications. Especially this framework can be used to create immersive multi user environments

Fraud detection in a financial payment system

Many financial payment systems have to face fraudulent activities due to the fast-paced development of the technology. Fraud detection is essential for the proper management of fraud control. It automates the manual checking processes and helps the detection be done conveniently. It is important to research and find ways and means of proper methodologies which will help serve the purpose of fraud detection effectively. Machine Learning Approach becomes more popular and accurate compared to a rule-based approach in this scenario. This paper presents such a performance comparison among a few methods which were tested with a dataset

Listening to the Giants : Using Elephant Infra-Sound to Solve the Human-Elephant Conflict

The continuing human-elephant conict in Sri Lanka has resulted in loss of human as well as elephant lives. Detecting and localizing elephants is an essential component of any viable solution to this problem. Currently, we conduct feasibility tests on using low cost sensors to detect elephants from a long distance, leveraging the infra-sounds emitted by them. In this paper we present the test environment that we have set up for this purpose and some preliminary, but promising results

FOSS BASED AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SIMULATOR

This paper presents an analysis of the significance of Air Traffic Control (ATC) simulators in training, and focuses on the development of low cost, high awareness ATC simulator on a 3D virtual environment, using Free and Open Source Aircraft simulator named Flightgear. Here it has proposed a scenario based ATC officer control method covering the all three phases; tower control, approach and enroute control