Republic of the Philippines

Southern Leyte State University

Sogod Main Campus

GRADUATE SCHOOL - MSIT

IT 506
Research Proposal

FACE RECOGNITION ATTENDANCE

SYSTEM

Presented by:

Mary Jane Pagay

Edgardo Mejor
Daniel Arpon

SLSU Graduate School

Sogod Main Campus
Introduction
Every company needs a stable system to record the attendance of their employees and

every company have their own ways, some are taking attendance manually and some

have adopted biometric such as finger print and voice recognition, but these systems

especially the manual is not 100% accurate. Human face plays an important role in our

day to day life mostly for identification of a person. Face recognition is a part of

biometric identification that extracts the facial features of a face, and then stores it as a

unique face print to uniquely recognize a person. Face recognition technology is better

and more accurate than other biometric techniques because of its non-contact process.

Recognition techniques using face recognition can also recognize a person from a

distance without any contact or interaction with person. The face recognition techniques

are currently implemented in social media websites like Facebook and devices like

mobile to unlock screen. Biometric identification is the technique of automatically

identifying or verifying an individual by a physical characteristic or personal attribute.

The system will consist a camera that will capture the faces of the employees, and then

this will be compared to the faces stored in a database for detection and recognition.

After the captured image was successfully recognized, the system will then notify the

employees through SMS that the attendance was successfully recorded.

Rationale
The purpose of Face Recognition Attendance System is to provide a smart way of

attendance management system. It will encourage institutions to adopt advance and

contactless technology in identity verification. It increases security and safety against

viruses and illnesses like covid-19 due to non-contact process. This system can save

time and allow employees to enter or exit the workplace effortlessly. In our country,
some organizations are still using punched card machine and manual attendance

system, and both are prone to proxy attendance. These systems have high risk for

employees to commit time theft. Abroad, facial recognition technology is already widely

used among other countries and have made many improvements in the changing world.

It is an effective design for personal authentication. Based to an article written by

greytHR , Facial Recognition is opted by companies as a competent technology to

ensure workplace safety and efficiency. Companies save in investing in multiple devices

and stressful manual tracking by choosing the Facial recognition attendance

mechanism. A software company has recently launched the all-new Facial Attendance

Feature called greytHR Visage. It is a secure, COVID-safe, and accurate attendance

management module for businesses to ensure touchless entry to the workspace.

This research proposal can be of help in realizing and determining the productivity and

competitiveness of an organization. It will address the gaps in the past and current

attendance system used. This will be vital to all organizations as the pandemic

continuous to surge.

Objectives of the Study

The main purpose of the propose project is to provide a storage that will automatically

record the attendance of the employees through the proposed face recognition

attendance system.

Specifically, the propose project aims the following:

1. The system is capable of checking and monitoring the attendance of employee

through face recognition.

2. Track attendance of distributed workforce real-time with efficiency.

 3. The Facial Recognition attendance system delivers accurate data with minimal

human intervention and can reduce discrepancies like buddy punching

4. The proposed project will have an SMS feature to notify the employees.

5. The system will serve as a record keeper for the attendance of the employees.

6. The output of the propose project can provide an accurate present attendance of

the employees.

Significance of the Study

The following are the beneficiaries of this project:

Employer. This will help them eradicate the conventional method of checking the

attendance. With comprehensive reporting capabilities, the management can track the

log-in and log-out of employees, calculate attendance-based wages, view the absent

list, take necessary actions, and get employees' personal information.

Payroll. The system will lessen their work in checking and monitoring the attendance of

the employees. It can quickly scale up and process vast numbers of facial IDs in

organized and detailed ways within the database.

Employees. This will help secure that their attendance was recorded.

Researchers. The challenge of developing an information system will contribute to the

knowledge and experience of the researchers.

Future Researchers. The future researchers may integrate the attendance system into

a fully function campus management system.

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