Attendance System based on Face Recognition using Eigen face and PCA Algorithms

The attendance maintaining system is difficult process if it is done manually. The smart and automated attendance system for managing the attendance can be implemented using the various ways of biometrics. Face recognition is one of them. By using this system, the issue of fake attendance and proxies can be solved. In the previous face recognition based attendance system, there were some disadvantages like intensity of light problem and head pose problem. Therefore to overcome these issues, various techniques like illumination invariant, Viola and Jones algorithm, Principle component analysis are used. The major steps in this system are detecting the faces and recognizing them. After these, the comparison of detected faces can be done by crosschecking with the database of student's faces. This smart system will be an effective way to maintain the attendance and records of students.