FACIAL RECOGNITION BASED

ATTENDANCE SYSTEM

Guided By: Submitted By:

Prof. Abhay E. Patil Pranav Ghasghase (415)
Murtaza Burhani (439)
Rohan Pophale (452)
Harish Yadav (477)
 INDEX
 Abstract
 Introduction
 Aim & Objectives
 Literature Survey
 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Project
 Methodology
 Execution
 Future Scope of the Project
 Conclusion
 References
 ABSTRACT
 Taking attendance is an important step to monitor the activities of a
student and to ensure the eligibility of the student to complete the course.
 Despite technological advancements, most of the educational institutes
still use the old register system.
 In this project, we propose a new way to take attendance of students in a
classroom using facial recognition technique
 This is efficient, less time consuming and which can be done using
devices that are readily available with people in today’s day and age.
 INTRODUCTION
 Face recognition has been a very trending and developing area of
research.
 There is continuous research in the domain of face recognition and it has
reached a point where a computer recognises human face better than
humans ourselves.
 As such it has become a very reliable technique to use in security
applications like Theft monitoring systems, criminal database etc.
 Face recognition can also be used in educational institutes for taking
attendance. Manually taking attendance by calling out individual
student’s name one by name is a time-consuming process, hence
inefficient.
 Face recognition based attendance system is by far the best solution to
address this problem.
 AIM & OBJECTIVES
AIM of the project:
• To assist in the process of attendance marking with the use of facial
recognition technique and record the attendance in a file.
• If there are multiple faces in a single picture, which is the case in
classrooms, the proposed model segments the entire image and fetches
individual faces separately.

OBJECTIVES of the project:

• To use Python and its libraries to design an application for facial
recognition.
 LITERATURE SURVEY
Paper Name: Smart Attendance System using Facial Recognition
Authors: Harish M, Chetan P, Prajna N Holla K, Syed Abdul Azeem, M.G. Veena

A Fingerprint based attendance
system was proposed by Sanjay
Badhe et al. which uses a
Fingerprint module to take the
fingerprint of the student. This data
is wirelessly transmitted to a
microcontroller via a Zigbee
wireless communication module.
The fingerprint data is stored in a
computer wherein the Fingerprint
is recognised based on the data
obtained from the Microcontroller.
An RFID based attendance system
proposed by T.S. Lim, S.C. Sim
and M.M. Mansor, uses a Radio
Frequency Identification Device
(RFID) tag, which is unique to
every individual. RFID cards are
placed on the reader and the
attendance of the student/worker
is instantly taken.
A Speech Biometric based
attendance system proposed by
SubhadeepDey et al. In that user
accesses the system by making a
call from few pre-decided mobile
phones. And this whole process is
conducted by an interactive voice
response (IVR) system
Advantages of the Paper:
Use of biometric scanning way is
definitely faster and better than the
traditional one, as biometrics can
uniquely identify a person.
Disadvantages of the paper:
However, the biometrics of a person
can easily be forged. Hence, this
system is not very secure.
Research Gap:
This paper only uses biometric
scanning as compared to the facial
recognition technique being used in
our project.
 LITERATURE SURVEY
Paper Name: Smart Attendance Management System Using Face Recognition
Authors: Kaneez Laila Bhatti, Laraib Mughal, Faheem Yar Khuhawar, Sheeraz Ahmed Memon

In Jomon Joseph, K. P. Zacharia
proposed a system using image
processing, PCA, Eigen faces,
Microcontroller, based on
Matlab. Their system works only
with front face images and there
is need of a suitable method
which works with the orientation
of the system.
Ajinkya Patil with their fellows
in proposed a face recognition
approach for attendance marking
using Viola jones algorithm,
Haar cascades are used to
detect faces in images and
recognition performs through
Eigen face method.
A 3D face recognition approach for
attendance management system was
proposed by MuthuKalyani.K,
VeeraMuthu. There is need for an
alternative algorithm which can enhance
the recognition on oriented faces.
Efficient Attendance Management system
is designed with the help of PCA
algorithm the have achieved accuracy up
to 83%.
An eigen face approach along with PCA
algorithm for marking face recognition
attendance system have introduced by
author in that they mention comparison of
different face recognition algorithm in
their paper. Overall it was good approach
to maintain record of attendance.
Advantages of the Paper:
Facial recognition is a very fast and
secure method of identifying a
person.Facial recognition of a person
is very difficult to be forged. Hence,
this method is generally foolproof.
Disadvantages of the Paper:
The PCA model is 83% accurate, so
not completely reliable.There are
chances of students not being able to
identify themselves under different
lighting conditions.
Research Gap:
This paper uses the PCA model to
identify faces, whereas our project
uses Image Processing to do the same.
 LITERATURE SURVEY
Paper Name: Automatic Students Attendance Marking System Using Image Processing
Authors: Kaneez Laila Bhatti, Laraib Mughal, Faheem Yar Khuhawar, Sheeraz Ahmed Memon
There are so many recent works recognition rate as persons to be
done by many researchers in the identified increases.
area of ‘Automatic attendance Dmello et al. proposed an
marking systems’. attendance management system
Sovitkar and Kawathekar used the based on detection and
Viola Jones algorithm for recognition of student’s faces
detection of the faces. For feature present in a class and mark
selection, they used algorithms recognized students’ attendance
such as LDA, PCA and hybrid automatically. They used IOT
approach using both of these with cameras to capture the students’
SVM as a classifier. They created faces. CNN, along with SVM
dataset using different facial classifier is used for face
expressions, poses and lighting recognition. The system gives an
conditions. Average rate of accuracy of 94%.
recognition with the combination
of all algorithms showed is 95%.
There is decrease in the
Advantages of the Paper:
The methods illustrated in the
paper increase the accuracy of the
face recognition technique and
hence increase the reliability of
the system.
Disadvantages of the Paper:
There are multiple algorithms
used in a single system, which
makes the programming part
complex and difficult to debug.
Research Gap:
The above paper uses complicated
algorithms and expensive
hardware equipments, whereas
our project uses simple devices.
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
OF THE PROJECT
Advantages of the Project:
• Fast and secure attendance marking system
• More accurate than the traditional methods
• Easy to install and implement

Disadvantages of the Project:

• The accuracy of the system depends upon the quality of hardware used.
• Problems with the angle or lighting conditions may interfere with the recognition
of faces.
• Some faces may go recognized if there are too many students in a single photo.
 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
HARDWARE REQUIRED: SOFTWARE REQUIRED:
• A smartphone with good quality • Python 3.0 or higher
camera • PyQT
• Computer system with Windows • OpenCV
7 or higher • Cmake
 PROPOSED MODEL
 The proposed model is an attempt to overcome all the shortcomings of the previous
related works in the domain of smart attendance system.
 If there are multiple faces in a single picture, which is the case in classrooms, this
method segments the entire image and fetches individual faces separately and
later it is sent through the Facenet model to get individual predictions.
 Images of the classroom is taken by the lecturer’s smartphone. The number of
images depends on the size of the classroom and the field of view of the smartphone
camera so as to capture the entire length and breadth of the classroom and not
miss out any student’s face.
 One can take multiple images of different sections of the classroom to avoid this
Field of view problem.
 METHODOLOGY
Face recognition is essentially pattern recognition, and the purpose is to abstract
real things into numbers that computers can understand. If a picture is a 256 bit-
color image, then each pixel of the image is a value between 0 and 255, so we
can convert an image into a matrix.

How to identify the patterns in this matrix? One way is to use a relatively small
matrix to sweep from left to right and top to bottom in this large matrix. Within
each small matrix block, we can count the number of occurrences of each color
from 0 to 255. So we can express the characteristics of this block.
 METHODOLOGY
• Facial feature extraction is a face image into a string of fixed-length numerical
process. This string of numbers is called the "Face Feature" and has the ability
to characterize this face.
• Human face to mention the characteristics of the process of input is "a face map"
and "facial features key points coordinates", the output is the corresponding
face of a numerical string (feature).
• Face to face feature algorithm will be based on facial features of the key point
coordinates of the human face pre-determined mode, and then calculate the
features.
• Earlier face feature models were larger, slow, only used in the background
service. However, some recent studies can optimize the model size and
operation speed to be available to the mobile terminal under the premise of the
basic guarantee algorithm effect.
FACIAL DETECTION FLOWCHART
EXECUTION
EXECUTION
 APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE SCOPE OF THE
PROJECT
APPLICATIONS of the Project:
• The project can be deployed in various institutes and offices for facial
recognition based attendance management of students and/or staff.
• The project has applications in the security sector to only allow access to people
whose faces get a match in the dataset.
FUTURE SCOPE of the Project:
• The project can be deployed with a larger dataset with photos of a single
subject from various angles to improve the accuracy of the project.
• Various Machine Learning models can be deployed for better results in facial
recognition of the subjects.
• The dataset for the project can be rendered on a cloud so as to facilitate the
easy addition of more images to the dataset and referral of data for the Machine
Learning model.
 CONCLUSION
• The proposed model for taking attendance is effective in reducing extra
hardware components required to take attendance.
• All the devices required for this purpose are already available with almost
everyone in the present day and age.
• This project is aimed to produce accuracy in facial recognition and attendance
marking.
• The accuracy of the model is dependent on the resolution of the camera with
which the image of the classroom is taken.
 REFERENCES
• International Journal of Computer Applications National Conference on
Advancements in Computer & Information Technology (NCACIT), pp. 10-14,
2016.
• “Smart Attendance Monitoring System (SAMS): A Face Recognition based
Attendance System for Classroom Environment”, IEEE 18th International
Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, pp. 358-360, 2018.
• “Face Recognition based Attendance Management System”, International
Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET), Volume: 05 Issue: 06,
pp. 1979-1985, 2018.
• "Implementation of classroom attendance system based on face recognition in
class." International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology 7.3
(2014): 974.
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