Intelligent Face Recognition-Based Attendance Management System
Automate attendance tracking with AI-powered facial recognition and liveness detection
Features • Demo • Quick Start • API • Tech Stack
- 🤖 AI-Powered Recognition - FaceNet deep learning for 95%+ accuracy
- 👁️ Anti-Spoofing - Liveness detection prevents photo/video fraud
- ⚡ Lightning Fast - Mark attendance in under 2 seconds
- 🔒 Privacy First - Stores only face embeddings, never raw images
- 🌐 RESTful API - Easy integration with any platform
- 📊 Real-time Tracking - Instant attendance records and analytics
- 💾 Zero Proxy - Eliminates buddy punching completely
Seamless employee registration with face capture and liveness detection
Instant attendance marking with facial recognition and verification
Complete attendance history and analytics at your fingertips
Backend → FastAPI (Python)
ML Models → FaceNet, dlib
Computer Vision → OpenCV
Database → SQLite
Deep Learning → Keras
- Python 3.8+
- Camera/Webcam
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/ahmadmustafa02/FaceRecognitionAttendanceSystem.git
cd attendify
# Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Download dlib shape predictor
# Place in: data/shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat
# Initialize database
python database/db_setup.py
# Run the server
python main.py🎉 Server running at http://localhost:8000
POST /api/register
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/api/register" \
-F "name=John Doe" \
-F "[email protected]"POST /api/mark-attendance
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/api/mark-attendance" \
-F "[email protected]"GET /api/attendance/{name}
curl "http://localhost:8000/api/attendance/John%20Doe"┌─────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐
│ Client │─────▶│ FastAPI │─────▶│ FaceNet │
│ (Camera) │ │ Server │ │ Model │
└─────────────┘ └──────────────┘ └─────────────┘
│ │
▼ ▼
┌──────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐
│ Liveness │ │ SQLite │
│ Detection │ │ Database │
└──────────────┘ └─────────────┘
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Registration 📝
- Capture face image
- Liveness check (blink detection)
- Generate 512-D face embedding
- Store in database
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Attendance ✅
- Capture face image
- Validate liveness
- Match with stored embeddings
- Mark attendance with timestamp
- ✅ Face embeddings only (no image storage)
- ✅ Blink-based liveness detection
- ✅ 68 facial landmark analysis
- ✅ Encrypted database storage
- ✅ GDPR-ready architecture
| Metric | Performance |
|---|---|
| Recognition Accuracy | 95%+ |
| Response Time | <2 seconds |
| Liveness Detection | 90%+ |
| Time Saved | 90% |
| Proxy Attempts | 0 |
- Multi-face detection
- Web admin dashboard
- Mobile app (React Native)
- Face mask detection
- GPU acceleration
- Cloud deployment
- HR system integration
attendify/
├── data/ # ML models
├── database/ # DB operations & schema
├── models/ # FaceNet & liveness
├── services/ # Face recognition logic
├── main.py # FastAPI application
└── requirements.txt # Dependencies
Ahmad Mustafa - GitHub
Malik Saad Hayat - GitHub
COMSATS University, Islamabad
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
- FaceNet - Face recognition architecture
- dlib - Facial landmark detection
- FastAPI - Modern Python web framework
- keras-facenet - Pre-trained models
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