5 papers
PoPStat-COVID19: Leveraging Population Pyramids to Quantify Demographic Vulnerability to COVID-19
Buddhi Wijenayake, Athulya Ratnayake, Lelumi Edirisinghe +8
Understanding how population age structure shapes COVID-19 burden is crucial for pandemic preparedness, yet common summary measures such as median age ignore key distributional fea…
AVSim -- Realistic Simulation Framework for Airborne and Vector-Borne Disease Dynamics
Pandula Thennakoon, Mario De Silva, M. Mahesha Viduranga +8
Computational disease modeling plays a crucial role in understanding and controlling the transmission of infectious diseases. While agent-based models (ABMs) provide detailed insig…
Holistic Interpretation of Public Scenes Using Computer Vision and Temporal Graphs to Identify Social Distancing Violations
Gihan Jayatilaka, Jameel Hassan, Suren Sritharan +7
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented global public health crisis. Given its inherent nature, social distancing measures are proposed as the primary strategies to curb…
A generalized forecasting solution to enable future insights of COVID-19 at sub-national level resolutions
Umar Marikkar, Harshana Weligampola, Rumali Perera +9
COVID-19 continues to cause a significant impact on public health. To minimize this impact, policy makers undertake containment measures that however, when carried out disproportio…
Spatial analysis of COVID-19 and socio-economic factors in Sri Lanka
Rumali Perera, Harshana Weligampola, Umar Marikkar +6
The spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic affected Sri Lanka similar to how it affected other countries across the globe. The Sri Lankan government took many preventive measures t…