Face Recognition Based Attendance System

Makes attendance records in realtime using python's face recognition library. All we need is one image of the person to be detected by the camera.

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Installing on Linux

First, make sure you have dlib already installed with Python bindings:

• How to install dlib from source on macOS or Ubuntu

Cloning the repository

git clone https://github.com/aashutoshPanda/Face-Recognition-Based-Attendance-System.git
cd Face-Recognition-Based-Attendance-System

Making Virtual environment for the project

python3 -m venv <myvenv>
source <myvenv>/bin/activate

Installing the required packages to our virtual environment

pip install -r requirements.txt

Instructions

Put all the images in 'student_db' directory & run the 'db_maker.py' file

python3 db_maker.py

then excel file named 'people_db.xlsx' is made inside the 'student_db' directory

• name of the person is extracted from the image name
• second column has the file name (files are renamed by replacing spaces by underscores)
• roll no. is given from 1 to N you can edit according to your needs

To run the facial recognition system run 'main.py'

python3 main.py

Press q to Quit

After running the program attendance record is generated with current timestamp (Ex. 'attendance_record Sun 06 Sep 2020 18:40:11 IST.xlsx' ) providing the details of the students recognised by the camera