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Cheah Yew Loong

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TP024856

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rider_dragon_93@hotmail.com

Program Name:

Intelligent System

Title of project:

APU Facial Recognition Attendance System

Please record which modules your topic is related to:

Further Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Module
Java Programming
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This is the draft proposal of your FYP which needs to be submitted to the project administrator by
hardcopy refer to your timeline for submission deadline.

1. Introduction
Facial recognition system is one of the element of vision and image processing in the
Artificial Intelligence. Nowadays, a lots of security and authenticate expert system are using
the biometric security technology to grant access to the user. A facial recognition system is a
biometric security system for authenticate the user identity. In this project, facial recogniton
system will be implement to the APU Attendance system to replace the current manual
attendance taking by the lecturer. The concept of the project is to implement few cameras in
the class and the system will capture the students face images to authenticate the student
attedance. Hence, facial recognition is more on biometric security function and this is project
is about how facial recognition system works in APU Facial Recognition Attendance System.

2. Problem Statement
In the 21st century, mostly all attendance system is recorded by replacing the biometric
security system. Nowadays, a lots of company used biometric security system such as
fingerprint scanner, iris scanner and facial recognition system to monitor their staff
attendance. Yet, APU attendance system still using manual operation such as file processing
document and intranet to take students attendance one by one.
One of the major problem of the APU attendance system is inaccurate count during
lecturer mark attendance. Human does made mistake and might produce inconsistent result.
For example, the lecturer might count wrongly of the students headcount due to the large
number of students during the attendance is taken due to the large size of the class. According
to BARKER, T., 2002, May 30, he mentioned that the test on the reliability of facial
recognition system success rates have been as high as 94% using a higher security setting.
Meanwhile, this system is being test at 10 airports around the country such as Dallas and
Boston. So, it can be conclude that the facial recognition system can be implement in APU
attendance system to become more efficient and reliable system.
Another major problem of the current APU attendance system is the APU require Internet
connection from the lecturers computer to connect to the APU Intranet. If the APU intranet is
down for a certain time, it cause trouble to mark down the students attendance by using
paper. Normally the attendance will be marked at the end of class. Yet, if this case happened,
it will took longer time to take all the students attendance by using paper. According to the
LI, Y., GONG, S. and LIDDELL, H., 2003, they both discovered an algorithm which could
construct a 3D shape from 2D images obtain from a camera and do a pattern matching using
the algorithm for verify the user. Different angle of users image are stored in the database as
a sample. When there is a verification process happened, the camera will capture the images
and do a pattern matching and comparison with the sample which stored in the database
earlier. To conclude, this pattern matching process can be implement during the APU facial
recognition system to verify students faces in the database.

3. Project Aims & Objective

The overall aim of this system is designed to create a facial recognition system in APU
attendance system which offers computancy intelligence to take students attendance
automatically. An agent and expert system could able to suite the environment and help
people to solve problem without human control.
There are several objectives in order to achieve the aims as defined:

To reduce error and mistake made by human

To implement automateed system by replacing the manual system

To enhance the security.

To minimize the steps and workload of taking attendace.

To save the time for lecturer by taking down the students attendance manually

To establish a network connection in every classroom so that the attendance could taken
automatically

To facilitate easier searching for student information using facial recognition system

4. Deliverables
The APU Facial Recognition Attendance System (APUFRAS) offers various of control
for lecturer to obtain student information also using the biometric facial scanning device
system. The key element of the system by placing the camera sensor at each corner of the
classroom which the system will automatically note down the students attendance without
human control. There are several functions are provided by system such as:

Allow users to view students attendance

The system will automacally detect the students information through the image
captured by the camera sensor

The system is able to differentiate between the student is late to class or absent.

Allow users to search a students information by using the facial recognition

system

Allow user to edit the students attendance