Profile Brief

Mr.Veerapathirapillai Vinoharan is working as a Lecturer in ICT at the Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Vavuniya and he has been 12 years’ experience in teaching in IT/ICT/CS domain. Vinoharan holds MSc (Peradeniya), MPhil (Jaffna), Sri Lanka. He is a researcher in computer science and Information Communication Technology determined to make a significant contribution in a vibrant international research community that invent solutions to real world problems.

Educational Qualifications

• BSc [Hons](Jaffna)
• MSc (Peradeniya)
• MPhil (Jaffna)

Previous Academic Positions

1. Instructor in Computer Technology (On Contract), Computer Centre, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 12 February 2007 – 30 June 2008.
2. Assistant Lecturer (On Contract), Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 04 August 2008 – 02 March 2009.
3. Instructor in Computer Technology (Permanent), Grade II. Computer Centre, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. 02 March 2009 – 01 March 2021.
4. Instructor in Computer Technology (Permanent), Grade I. Computer Centre, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. 02 March 2021 – 30 November 2021.

Presentations

1. 1. At International Conferences:”One-pass Keypoint Selection to Construct Codebook for Patch-based Object Classification”, at the IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation
      for Sustainability (ICIAfS), Colombo, 21-22 December, 2018.
   2.  “Keypoints and Codewords Selection for Efficient Bag-of-Features Representation”,
      at the IEEE International Conference on Future of Information and Communication
      Conference (FICC), Singapore, 5-6 April, 2018.
   3. “Are Large Scale Training Images or Discriminative Features Important for Codebook
      Construction?”, at the Fifth International Conference on Pattern Recognition
      Applications and Methods (ICPRAM2016), pp. 193-198, Rome, Italy, 24-26 February,
      2016.
   4. “A Wheel-based Side-view Car Detection using Snake Algorithm”, at the Sixth
      IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability
      (ICIAfS’12), Beijing, China, 27-29 September 2012.
   5. At Workshops:“Constructing Discriminative and Compact Codebook Using Statistical Measures”,
      at the Sri Lanka Student Workshop on Coputer Science (SLSWCS’17), Jaffna, Sri
      Lanka, 09 December 2017.
   6. “Sequentially Constructing Discriminative Codebook with Classifier Training for Object
      Recognition”, at the Sri Lanka Student Workshop on Coputer Science
      (SLSWCS’15), Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 07 November 2015.

Conferences / Workshop Attended

1. Conferences
   
   1. IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), Colombo, 21-22 December, 2018.
   2. Fourth Jaffna University International Research Conference (JUICe-2018), 27-28 September 2018, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
   3. First Vingnanam International Research Conference 2018 (VIRC2018), 04th July 2018, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
   4. IEEE International Conference on Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC), Singapore, 5-6 April, 2018.
   5. Fifth International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICP- RAM2016), Rome, Italy, 24-26 February 2016.
   6. SEARCC2013 International Conference in Partnership with National IT Conference (NI- TC), 13-14 August 2013, Galadari Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
   7. Sixth IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation for sustainability (ICIAfS’12), 27-29 September 2012, Beijing, China.
   8. Jaffna University International Research Conference (JUICe-2012), 20-21 July 2012, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
   9. First International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer-2010), September 29 and October 01, 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
   10. Conference on Free and Open Source Software, 02nd February 2010, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
2. Workshops
   
   1. Workshop on In co-operating Souo-emotional skill in to the Curriculum”, Faculty of Science, 29 June 2020.
   2. Fifth Sri Lankan Student workshop on Computer Science (SL-SWCS’19), 07th Dec 2019, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
   3. Workshop on “Statistics for Research”, 24-25 November 2018.
   4. Fourth Sri Lankan Student workshop on Computer Science (SL-SWCS’17), 07th Dec 2017, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
   5. Third Sri Lankan Student workshop on Computer Science (SL-SWCS’15), 07th Nov 2015, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
   6. Workshop on “In co-operating ICT components in the Curricula”, 17-18 November 2014.
   7. Workshop on Microsoft IT Academy in University of Visual and Performing Arts on 29th and 30th September 2014
   8. Workshop on LMS and open education resource in University of Moratuwa on 30th July 2014.
   9. Workshop on “Effective Teaching of ICT” at University of Jaffna, 23 January 2013 and 07 February 2013.
   10. Sri Lankan Student workshop on Computer Science (SL-SWCS’11), 08th December 2011, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
   11. Capacity building workshop on “Taking ICT to the Community”, 23-24 June 2011.
   12. 2010 ICIAfS Post Conference Workshop on ICT for Sustainability, 21-22 December, 2010, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
   13. Workshop on planning the new Higher Education project meeting with English and IT Teaching staffs of Universities. 13th May 2009.
3. Training Programs
   
   1. Training programme on “Certificate Course in Advanced Web Technology (Using Core and Advance JAVA) organised by CMC Ltd, New Delhi, India, 16th December 2013 to 07th February 2014.

⦁ Member of the Faculty Building Committee for the Faculty of Technological Studies
⦁ Member of the Faculty Anti-ragging Committee for the Faculty of Technological Studies
⦁ Member of the Faculty Editorial Committee for Faculty Newsletter and Students Handbook of the Faculty of Technological Studies
⦁ Member of the Faculty Research Committee for the Faculty of Technological Studies
⦁ Deputy Proctor of the Faculty of Technological Studies
⦁ Member of the Annual Report – Editorial Committee for the Faculty of Technological Studies
⦁ Senate Nominee for the Faculty of Technological
⦁ VCTA Treasurer
⦁ Representative of the Senate to the Management committee of Centre for Students’ Accessibility Services.
⦁ Member of the Faculty Strategic Plan Committee and Action Plan

Research Grant:
Title: “Training images vs discriminative features on the construction of codebook
to recognize visual object”
Award: National Research Council (NRC) Sri Lanka
Grant No: NRC 15-128
Position: Co-investigator
Duration: February 2015 – February 2017

Journal Publication

• Vinoharan, V. and Ramanan, A.: “An Efficient Bag-of-Features Representation for Object Classification”, in the Electronic Letters in Computer Vision and Image Analysis (ELCVIA), vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 51-68, 2021.

Publication in International Conferences

1. Publications

   1. Vinoharan, V. and Ramanan, A.: “One-pass Keypoint Selection to Construct Codebook
      for Patch-based Object Classification”, In the IEEE International Conference
      on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), IEEE, pp. 237-242,
      Colombo, 21-22 December, 2018.

   2. Vinoharan, V. and Ramanan, A.: “Keypoints and Codewords Selection for Efficient
      Bag-of-Features Representation”, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference
      on Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC), IEEE, pp. 378-390,
      Singapore, 5-6 April, 2018.

   3. Vinoharan, V. and Ramanan, A.: “Are Large Scale Training Images or Discriminative
      Features Important for Codebook Construction?”, In Proceedings of the Fifth International
      Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM2016),
      SuTePress, pp. 193-198, Rome, Italy, 24-26 February, 2016.

   4. Vinoharan, V., Ramanan, A. and Kodituwakku, S. R.: “A Wheel-based Side-view Car
      Detection using Snake Algorithm”, In Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International
      Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS’12), IEEE, pp.
      185-189, Beijing, China, 27-29 September, 2012.
2. Posters
   1. Vinoharan, V. and Ramanan, A.: “On the Construction of Discriminative and
      Compact Codebook for Patch-based Visual Object Classification”, In Sri Lanka
      Student Workshop on Coputer Science (SLSWCS’19), Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 07 December
      2019.
   2. Vinoharan, V. and Ramanan, A.: “Constructing Discriminative and Compact Codebook
      Using Statistical Measures”, In Sri Lanka Student Workshop on Coputer Science
      (SLSWCS’17), Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 09 December 2017.
   3. Vinoharan, V. and Ramanan, A.: “Sequentially Constructing Discriminative Codebook
      with Classifier Training for Object Recognition”, In Sri Lanka Student Workshop on
      Coputer Science (SLSWCS’15), Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 07 November 2015.
3. Theses
   1. “Training Images vs Discriminative Features: On the Construction of Codebook to
      Recognise Visual Objecys”, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Jaffna, Master
      of Philosophy Thesis, 92pp. 19 December 2018.
   2. “A Wheel-based Side-view Car Detection using Snake Algorithm”, Postgraduate
      Institution of Science, University of Peradeniya, Master of Science Thesis, 36pp.
      June 2013.

Teaching Interest

• Programming Languages
• Image Processing
• Machine Learning
• Computer Vision

Undergraduate Subjects Taught

• TICT1224 – Object Oriented Programming using Java
• TICT3253 – Digital Image Processing
• TICT4143 – Intelligent System