Publications

Interactive Money Saver: A Digital Till to Enhance Money Saving Interests of Children

E. S. Sithpahan, Anuradha Ariyaratne, Hirusha Wanigasingha, Ravindra De Silva

First International Conference on Technological Intelligence and Business Strategies · Manila, Philippines

A digital, interactive savings tool designed to build healthy financial habits in children from an early age. Presented at TIBS 2026, a SCOPUS-indexed international conference.

SerendibCoins: Exploring the Sri Lankan Coins Dataset

Preprint introducing a self-curated Sri Lankan coin dataset for edge-based recognition, with baseline CNN benchmarks.

Evaluation of Student Focus Level in a Virtual Classroom Using Computer Vision

E. S. Sithpahan, N. D. Kodikara

BEng Thesis · Informatics Institute of Technology / University of Westminster

BEng thesis evaluating student engagement in virtual classrooms as a video anomaly detection problem. Combines a spatiotemporal convolutional autoencoder with pose estimation, achieving ROC-AUC ≈ 0.8 on the EmotiW dataset. Underpins the EngageTrack project (see Projects).