Asee peer logo

A Real-time Attendance System Using Deep-learning Face Recognition

Download Paper |

Conference

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Location

Virtual On line

Publication Date

June 22, 2020

Start Date

June 22, 2020

End Date

June 26, 2021

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 8

Tagged Division

Computing and Information Technology

Tagged Topic

Diversity

Page Count

8

DOI

10.18260/1-2--33949

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/33949

Download Count

5643

Request a correction

Paper Authors

biography

Weidong Kuang University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

visit author page

Dr. Weidong Kuang received a Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Central Florida in 2003. He has be with University of Texas Rio Grande Valley since 2004 starting as an assistant professor, up to an associate professor now. His research interests include VLSI design, machine learning, and digital signal processing.

visit author page

biography

Abhijit Baul University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

visit author page

I am a Master's student in the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. I have completed my Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. My research interests are deep learning and computer vision.

visit author page

Download Paper |

Abstract

title: A real-time attendance system using deep learning face recognition abstract: Attendance check plays an important role in classroom management. Checking attendance by calling names or passing around a sign-in sheet is time-consuming, and especially the latter is open to easy fraud. This paper presents the detailed implementation of a real-time attendance check system based on face recognition and its results. To recognize a student’s face, the system must first take and save a picture of the student as a reference in a database. During the attendance check, the web camera takes face pictures for a student to be recognized, and then the computer automatically detects the face and identifies a student name who most likely matches the pictures, and finally a excel file will be updated for attendance record based on the face recognition results. In the system, a pre-trained Haar Cascade model is used to detect faces from web camera video. A FaceNet, which has been trained by minimizing the triplet loss, is used to generate a 128-dimensional encoding for a face image. The similarity between the encodings of two face images determines whether the two face images coming from the same students. Novel techniques, including multiple-recognition and distance threshold optimization, have been developed to improve the recognition accuracy. The system has been deployed for several classes at our university (no name provided for blind review requirement). The system can be easily tailored for a different application such as access authentication.

Kuang, W., & Baul, A. (2020, June), A Real-time Attendance System Using Deep-learning Face Recognition Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--33949

ASEE holds the copyright on this document. It may be read by the public free of charge. Authors may archive their work on personal websites or in institutional repositories with the following citation: © 2020 American Society for Engineering Education. Other scholars may excerpt or quote from these materials with the same citation. When excerpting or quoting from Conference Proceedings, authors should, in addition to noting the ASEE copyright, list all the original authors and their institutions and name the host city of the conference. - Last updated April 1, 2015