Face Recognition - A Tool for Automated Attendance System

Abstract

Student attendance in a classroom is a time consuming task when done manually. Face recognition is a biometric powerful tool to authenticate a person. The other biometric attendance methods waste time as the students have to make a queue to touch their thumb on the scanning device. So, automated attendance system using face recognition is the efficient one for student attendance. Image acquisition, face detection and face recognition are the three parts of this system. The issue of fake attendance and proxies can be solved by using this system. This paper gives an overview of some known methods used to implement this system and also the benefits and drawbacks of it. This paper also proposes an efficient method by which we can implement such a system with high accuracy.