Face Recognition Attendance

It is a Face Recognition based Attendance System. It automatically matches the captured faces & marks their attendance without duplicity. It uses images as a database. You are required to set the individual's name as the image title in your database. Here the Database is referred to ImagesAttendance Folder.

Note: Linux users are not recommended to use it as it requires to install an older version of Python which will clash with your current python version & can lead to errors.

Requirements

• Python 3.7 (only)
• Visual Studio (Desktop Development with C++)
• PyCharm

Installation

• Install Python 3.7 from here and set its path. It should look something like this

• Install Visual Studio from here & use its Community Version as it's free and will work perfectly too. After running it's .exe select the Desktop development with C++ option and hit Install

• Install Pycharm from here but don't set its path as Python 3.10

Follow Steps to Run Code :-

1. Open Pycharm.
2. Select Open Option.

3. Select the Folder face_recognition_attendance-main & click OK

4. Click on File then click on Settings

5. Select Python Interpreter in Project:face_recognition_attendance-main section, then check Python Interpreter version should be set to Python 3.7, then click + button to install dependencies.

6. Now search for these dependencies and install them in this sequence only :-
   • cmake
   • dlib
   • face-recognition
   • numpy
   • opencv-python

Now you have installed all the requirements to run the project, all is left to run the face_recognition_attendance.py

Known Issues

Python 3.7 is compulsory to install because there is a library named dlib which only works on Python 3.7 and is needed for making the project.