Automatic Examinee Validation System using Eigenfaces

In most of the developing countries the seats of educational institutions are limited and barley 30% of the total eligible candidates get the opportunity to get admitted after facing competitive admission test. The scenario is worse in the job market. The growing graduation to unemployment ratio has become a major concern in developing and underdeveloped countries. As a result, job recruitment tests have become more competitive than ever. In order to survive in these types of competitive examinations, many candidates try to take unethical approaches. Because of large number of candidates, exam administrators cannot validate each and every candidate one by one. Moreover, modified image in registration paper makes it difficult to identify valid examinee. This is the weakest point of examinee validation system of competitive examination and significant number of candidates try to pass the examination by exploiting this weakness. The easiest way to exploit this weakness is to hire and send proxy examinee who has higher possibility of passing the exam instead of actual examinee. In this paper, we are proposing an automatic, fast, efficient and accurate yet simple to implement examinee validation system using eigenfaces. Our system will make it almost impossible for a proxy examinee to enter the exam-center.