Automatic Attendance Management System Using Face Recognition

Abstract— Being one of the most successful applications of the image processing, face recognition has a vital role in technical field especially in the field of security purpose. Human face recognition is an important field for verification purpose especially in the case of student’s attendance. This paper is aimed at implementing a digitized system for attendance recording. Current attendance marking methods are monotonous & time consuming. Manually recorded attendance can be easily manipulated. Hence the paper is proposed to tackle all these issues. Facial recognition or face recognition as it is often referred to as, analyses characteristics of a person’s face image input through a camera. It measures overall facial structure, distances between eyes, nose, mouth, and jaw edges. These measurements are retained in a database and used as a comparison when a user stands before the camera.

One of the strongest positive aspects of facial recognition is that it is non-intrusive. Verification or identification can be accomplished from two feet away or more, without requiring the user to wait for long periods of time or do anything more than look at the camera. Traditionally student’s attendance is taken manually by using attendance sheet, given by the faculty member in class. The Current attendance marking methods are monotonous & time consuming. Manually recorded attendance can be easily manipulated. Moreover, it is very difficult to verify one by one student in a large classroom environment with distributed branches whether the authenticated students are actually responding or not. Hence the paper is proposed to tackle all these issues < final year projects >