Attendance management system using hybrid face recognition techniques

Attendance recording of a student in an academic organization plays a vital role in judging students performance. As manual labor involved in this process is time consuming, an automated Attendance Management System (AMS) based on face detection and face recognition techniques is proposed in this paper. The system employs modified Viola-Jones algorithm for face detection, and alignment- free partial face recognition algorithm for face recognition. After successful recognition of a student, the system automatically updates the attendance in the excel sheet. The proposed system improves the performance of existing attendance management systems by eliminating manual calling, marking and entry of attendance in institutional websites.