Student Attendance System

Create a virutal environment

python3  -m venv ml

Activate the virtual environment

source ml/bin/activate

Install the following libraries

pip install face_recognition
pip install opencv-python
pip install loguru
pip install opencv-python
pip install "fastapi[all]"
pip install "uvicorn[standard]"
pip install python-multipart
pip install sqlalchemy
pip install jinja2
pip install imutils
pip install pytz

Main program

Use the following command to run the main program to recognize the students face and mark the attendance

python main.py

Web Frontend

Use the following command to run the website.

uvicorn api:app --reload --reload-include="*.html" --reload-include="*.css" --reload-include="*.js"

⚠️ Limitation

The face_recognition API was trained on a predominately western population. This means that accuracy may vary across different ethnic groups.