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Rajinda Senaratne




Electrical Engineer
Power Networks

Asia, Australia-Pacific Power Engineering Group

Parsons Brinckerhoff Australia Pty Ltd
Level 4, Northbank Plaza
69 Ann Street
GPO Box 2907
Brisbane QLD 4001
AUSTRALIA
Tel. : +61 7 38546582
Website:
http://www.pb.com.au/

Residence: Red Hill, Queensland, Australia
E-mail: 
rajinda_s@hotmail.com
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Biography


Education

- Ph.D. in Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia (2008)

- M.Eng. in Electronics and Telecommunication, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2004)

- B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2002)




Electrical Engineering Projects

- Merredin Energy power station project, Checking compliance of motor control centre with Australian standards, Western Australia, 2012

- Diamantina 132 kV switching station, preparation of specification, SLDs, GAs and protection drawings, Mt Isa, Queensland, 2011

- Power development concept select study, Arrow Energy, substation and transmission line options development, Queensland, 2011

- Road lighting electrical remedial works, Dept of Transport and Main Roads, reticulation design, Queensland, 2010/2011

- RCR Energy Diamantina project, Mica Creek combined cycle power plant, concept design of generator, transformer and feeder protection, Queensland, 2010
- Alpha coal feasibility study, Hancock Coal, 132/22 kV substation design and power reticulation of MIA, Queensland, 2010
- Condition and maintenance assessment of Powerlink's 275 kV overhead lines and 110 kV underground cables, Queensland, 2010

- South Pine to Hays Inlet 110 kV overhead line project, earthing study, Strathpine, Queensland, 2010

- Nebo road water treatment plant upgrade, Mackay infrastructure alliance project, assisting cable layout design and specification preparation, Mackay, Queensland, 2010
- United Colliery mine site expansion project, prefeasibility study, power supply design, Singleton, New South Wales, 2009/2010

- North West Queensland electricity demand supply, 275 kV transmission line and substations, proposal preparation, Queensland, 2009

- Hidden Valley 132kV transmission line and substations, substation design review and correspondence, Papua New Ginea, 2009

- Adelaide central reinforcement 275/66 kV city west substation, assisting scope and estimate report preparation, Adelaide, South Australia, 2009

- Smart grid blueprint desinging, Victoria, 2008




Computer Vision and Image Processing Research Projects

- Driver Fatigue Detection Using Facial Features
- Face Recognition




Publications
Journal:

1. Rajinda Senaratne, Budi Jap, Sara Lal, Arthur Hsu, Saman Halgamuge, and Peter Fischer, "Comparing Two Video-Based Techniques for Driver Fatigue Detection: Classification versus optical flow approach", Machine Vision and Applications, SpringerLink, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 597-618, 2011. (available online here)

2. Rajinda Senaratne, Saman Halgamuge, Arthur Hsu, "Face Recognition by Extending Elastic Bunch Graph Matching with Particle Swarm Optimization", Journal of Multimedia, Academy Publisher, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 204-214, 2009. (available online here)

3. Rajinda S. Senaratne and Saman K. Halgamuge, "Optimal Weighting of Landmarks for Face Recognition", Journal of Multimedia, Academy Publisher, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 31-41, 2006. (available online here)

Conference:

1. N. Maddage, R. Senaratne, L-S. A. Low, M. Lech, N. Allen, "Video-Based Detection of the Clinical Depression in Adolescents", Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE, pp. 3723-3726, Minneapolis, September 2009.

2. I. Saeed, A. Wang, R. Senaratne, S. Halgamuge, "Using the Active Appearance Model to Detect Driver Fatigue", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability, IEEE, pp. 124-128, Melbourne, December 2007. (available online in IEEE Xplore)

3. Rajinda Senaratne, David Hardy, Bill Vanderaa, Saman Halgamuge, "Driver Fatigue Detection by Fusing Multiple Cues", Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Nanjing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 4492, part II, pp. 801-809, June 2007. (available online in SpringerLink)

                            This paper has been cited in the following articles:

(a) P. Jimenez, J. Nuevo, L. M. Bergasa, "Face Pose Estimation and Tracking Using Automatic 3D

Model Construction", Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision

and Pattern Recognition, Alaska, June 2008. (available online here)

(b) P. Jimenez, J. Nuevo, L. M. Bergasa, M. A. Sotelo, "Face Tracking and Pose Estimation with

Engineering and Technology, vol. 3, issue 2, pp. 93–102, 2009. (available online here

(c) L. M. Bergasa, J. M. Buenaposada, J. Nuevo, P. Jimenez, L. Baumela, "Analysing Driver's

Attention Level Using Computer Vision", Proceedings of the 11th International IEEE
Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, pp. 1149-1154, Beijing, October 2008. (available online
here)

(d) E. Vural, "Video Based Detection of Driver Fatigue", PhD Thesis, Graduate School of

Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, 2009. (available online here)

(e) I.J.G. Enríquez, J.M.R. Cortés, J.M. Carballido, R.E. Caldera, M.N.I. Bonilla, "Sistema bimodal

de seguridad para la conducción basado en la detección de somnolencia por visión y

acelerometría", XI Congreso Mexicano de Robótica. Celaya, Guanajuato, México, 2009. (available online here)

(f) Y. Dong, Z. Hu, K. Uchimura, N. Murayama, "Driver Inattention Monitoring System for

Intelligent Vehicles: A Review", IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, pp. 875-880, Shaanxi,

June 2009. (available online here)

Automatic Three-Dimensional Model Construction", IET Computer Vision, The Institution of

4. R. Senaratne and S. Halgamuge, "Optimised Landmark Model Matching for Face Recognition", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, IEEE Computer Society, Southampton, pp. 120-125, April 2006. (available online in IEEE xplore)

                            This paper has been cited in the following articles:

(a) A.A. Salah, L. Akarun, "3D Facial Feature Localization for Registration", International Workshop on Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security, Turkey, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, vol. 4105, pp. 338-345, 2006. (available online here)

(b) B. Kroon, A. Hanjalic, S. Boughorbel, "Comparison of Face Matching Techniques Under Pose Variation", Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, ACM Press, Amsterdam, pp. 272-279, 2007. (available online here)

(c) B. Kroon, A. Hanjalic, S. M. P. Mass, "Eye localization for face matching: is it always useful and under what conditions?", Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Content-based Image and Video Retrieval, ACM Press, Ontario, pp. 272-279, 2008. (available online here)

(d) G. M. Wagner, "Face Authentication with Pose Adjustment Using Support Vector Machines with a Hausdorff-based Image Kernel", PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University, 2007. (available online here)

(e) R. Poli, "An Analysis of Publications on Particle Swarm Optimisation Applications", Technical Report CSM-469, Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK, 2007. (available online here)

(f) B. Gokberk, A.A. Salah, N. Alyuz, L. Akarun, "3D Face Recognition: Technology and Applications", Book chapter, Handbook of Remote Biometrics, Advances in Pattern Recognition, Springer London, pp. 217-246, 2009. (available online here)

(g) R. Elizes, "Investigating the Value of Using Sequences of Natural Computing Heuristics
to Address Traveling Salesman Problem
", PhD Thesis, Pace University, 2008. (available online here)

5. R. Senaratne and S. Halgamuge, "Face Localisation for Driver Fatigue Recognition", Proceedings of International Conference on Information and Automation 2005, IEEE, pp. 13-18, Colombo, December 2005. (available online here)

6. R. Senaratne and S. Halgamuge, "Using Particle Swarm Optimisation for Elastic Bunch Graph Matching to Recognise Faces", Proceedings of IEEE TENCON, IEEE, Melbourne, November 2005. (available online in IEEE Xplore)

                            This paper has been cited in the following articles:

(b) Y. Owechko, S. Medasani, "Graph-based cognitive swarms for object group recognition in a 3N or greater-dimensional solution space", United States Patent 7672911, 2010. (available online here)

(a) R. Poli, "An Analysis of Publications on Particle Swarm Optimisation Applications", Technical Report CSM-469, Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK, 2007. (available online here 




Work Experience

- Electrical Engineer, Power Networks Team, Parsons Brinckerhoff Australia Pty Ltd, Level 4, Northbank Plaza, 69 Ann Street, Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia.

- Smart Grid Support Engineer, Smart Network Core Team, Networks Intelligence & Automation, Network Development Division, SP AusNet Pty Ltd, Level 31, 2 Southbank Boulevard, Southbank, 3006, Victoria, Australia.

 




Membership of Professional Institutions

- GradIEAust [graduate member of the Institution of Engineers Australia] (2009 - present)
- AACS (prov) [provisional associate of Australian Computer Society] (2008 - 2010)




Other Past Activities

- Member of the Technical Committee of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2008

- President of Melbourne University Buddhist Studies Society 2006/07 (MUBSS) (yahoo site)

- Treasurer of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Postgraduate Society 2005/06

- Member of Meat-Pie Seminar Committee 2005/06
  (committee that organised the departmental presentation series of postgraduates)




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