Brief Biography
B.Sc. Eng. Hons. (Moratuwa), M.Sc. (Moratuwa), Ph.D. (Australian National University)
Designation :
Senior Lecturer
Email:
wageesham@uom.lk
My research interests include Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing, Drone Audition, Sound Source Localization, Speech Enhancement, Speaker Separation, Microphone Array Processing, and Wireless Communications.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
The Australian National University, 2024 Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing. Thesis: Parameterisation, Localisation, and Enhancement of Spatial Soundfield from Drone On-Board Microphones
Master of Science
University of Moratuwa, 2018 Wireless Communication (Major Component of Research)
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Hons)
University of Moratuwa, 2016 Specialisation: Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
Professional Affiliations
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Member
Teaching
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Journals
Wageesha N. Manamperi, Thushara D. Abhayapala, Lachlan Birnie, Jihui Zhang, Prasanga N. Samarasinghe, “Drone Audition: On Measurements and Modeling of Drone-Related Transfer Functions”, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 33, pp. 1775-1786, 2025
Wageesha N. Manamperi, Thushara D. Abhayapala, Prasanga N. Samarasinghe, Jihui Zhang, “Drone Audition: Audio Signal Enhancement from Drone Embedded Microphones using Multichannel Wiener Filtering and Gaussian-Mixture based Post-Filtering”, Applied Acoustics, vol. 216, 109818, 2024
Wageesha Manamperi, Thushara D. Abhayapala, Jihui Zhang, Prasanga N. Samarasinghe, “Drone Audition: Sound Source Localization Using On-Board Microphones”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 30, pp. 508-519, 2022
Conferences
Wageesha N. Manamperi, Thushara D. Abhayapala, “Relative Transfer Matrix for Drone Audition Applications: Source Enhancement”, 2024 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), 2024
Wageesha N. Manamperi, Thushara D. Abhayapala, “Successive Speaker Relative Transfer Function Estimation through Relative Transfer Matrix in Noisy Reverberant Environments”, 2024 Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), 2024
Wageesha N. Manamperi, Thushara D. Abhayapala, Paul Holmberg, “Microphone Aligned Continuous Wearable Device-Related Transfer Function: Efficient Modeling and Measurements”, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), 2024
Wageesha N. Manamperi, Thushara D. Abhayapala, Prasanga N. Samarasinghe, Jihui Zhang, “Drone Audition: Improved Gaussian Mixture Model Wiener Filtering Approach for Audio Signal Enhancement”, INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, vol. 268, no. 2, pp. 6459-6468, 2023
Wageesha Manamperi, Prasanga N. Samarasinghe, Thushara D. Abhayapala, Jihui Zhang, “GMM Based Multi-Stage Wiener Filtering for Low SNR Speech Enhancement”, 2022 International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), 2022
Wageesha Manamperi, Thushara D. Abhayapala, Jihui Zhang, Prasanga N. Samarasinghe, “Estimating Drone Motor Related Acoustic Transfer Function: A Preliminary Investigation”, 2020 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), pp. 156-160, 2020
Wageesha Manamperi, Dinesha Karunathilake, Thilini Madhushani, Nimasha Galagedara, Dileeka Dias, “Sinhala Speech Recognition for Interactive Voice Response Systems Accessed Through Mobile Phones”, 2018 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), pp. 241-246, 2018
Preprints
Wageesha N. Manamperi, Thushara D. Abhayapala, “Relative Transfer Matrix Estimator using Covariance Subtraction”, arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.19439, 2025
Wageesha N. Manamperi, Thushara D. Abhayapala, “Multiple Speaker Separation from Noisy Sources in Reverberant Rooms using Relative Transfer Matrix”, arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.09412, 2025