Smart attendance using deep learning and computer vision

Abstract Attendance is an essential part of daily classroom evaluation. Traditional classroom follows a manual attendance marking system, i.e., calling a student's names or by forwarding an attendance sheet. This process is both time-consuming and error-prone, i.e., student proxy, etc. Hence a face recognition based smart classroom attendance management system using computer vision and deep learning implemented on a Raspberry Pi has been proposed. It has been proposed to mount a camera at the top of the blackboard so that the students are visible while they are sitting down. A face detection algorithm followed by face recognition has been used to mark the attendance of the detected student.