A Library System for Small-Scale Library

In this paper, we explain a library system for small-scale libraries. This system uses books and face images for administration of lending and returning books. Users can borrow books by facing the front of the camera, presenting the book, and clicking the "Borrow" button. When returning books, users are required to click the "Return" button in the same way as on borrowing. The librarian can check the state of lending and returning on the Web browser. In the identification of books, a four directional feature that is in low resolution was used. To identify similar books, the feature which is cut the around part of book image, is used to distinguish these books. Face identification is used for easy administration. In this paper, we show that the four directional feature and cut feature are effective for book discrimination in experiments. The availability of face recognition for the system is also shown.