Automatic Attendance System Using Face Recognition

Taking Attendance manually is a very tedious job and wastes a lot of time too. The existing biometric attendance also wastes a lot of time as it is not automatic and also requires the involvement of the students too. The work described aims at automating the whole process. The camera installed will take a picture of the whole classroom, followed by detecting individual faces in the image, recognizing the students and then updating their attendance. The image will be captured twice-once at the beginning of the class and once at the end to ensure that the student has attended the whole class. Keywords—Facial Detection, Recognition, Attendance.