Automatic Attendance System using Face Detection

Attendance marking in a classroom is a very time consuming task. It is a very difficult for lecturers to take attendance in a class of very large number of students. This also reduces the time of lecture. This paper presents Automatic Attendance System using Face detection of students in class using MATLAB . This syste m uses Viola-Jones algorithm to detect the faces from the images captured by camera. These images are compared using SURF matching algorithm with the stored images of students. These two algorithms are implemented in MATLAB. The system can be operated automatically or manually. The focus is to make a fully automatic system which works on basis of time-table of class-room. We make a standalone application for this automatic attendance system which can work on any 64-bit computer with no need of MATLAB software.