Dr. A. B. Perera
Senior Lecturer (Grade I) · Dept. of Information Technology
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Qualifications
- PhD in Computer Science — National University of Singapore, 2016
- MSc in Artificial Intelligence — University of Moratuwa, 2011
- BSc Hons in Information Technology (First Class) — University of Moratuwa, 2008
Research Interests
Computer VisionApplied Machine LearningPrecision AgricultureEdge AI Systems
Selected Publications
Perera, A. B., Fernando, R. & Silva, M. (2026). Lightweight vision transformers for crop disease detection on drone imagery. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 214.
Perera, A. B. & Wijeratne, K. (2025). Field evaluation of edge-deployed disease classifiers in smallholder farms. Proc. of ICTer 2025, Colombo.
Jayalath, D., Perera, A. B. & Gunawardena, N. L. (2024). Semi-supervised labelling strategies for agricultural imagery. IEEE Access, 12.
Perera, A. B. (2023). A survey of computer vision applications in South Asian agriculture. ACM Computing Surveys, 55(9).