Contactless attendance management system using artificial intelligence

Abstract

Attendance monitoring is one of the vital administrative processes in all educational institutions and organizations. A well-structured system will enable the institutions to have an increasing growth. It helps the students and teachers in all ways to have a good progress in the attendance, thereby reducing the teachers’ time and effort. In physical classrooms, traditional method of calling the students names and marking their presence/absence is the routine process followed regularly. Attendance monitoring system is proposed using artificial intelligence. Firstly, a database containing the facial images of the students in a particular class is constructed. Knowledge gained using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is reused in a perfect manner using transfer learning. This system is designed to improve the students’ engagement time inside the classroom, to communicate to the parents frequently, to avoid proxy attendance and to generate detailed reports for future reference.