FaceTime — Deep learning based face recognition attendance system

In the interest of recent accomplishments in the development of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for face detection and recognition tasks, a new deep learning based face recognition attendance system is proposed in this paper. The entire process of developing a face recognition model is described in detail. This model is composed of several essential steps developed using today's most advanced techniques: CNN cascade for face detection and CNN for generating face embeddings. The primary goal of this research was the practical employment of these state-of-the-art deep learning approaches for face recognition tasks. Due to the fact that CNNs achieve the best results for larger datasets, which is not the case in production environment, the main challenge was applying these methods on smaller datasets. A new approach for image augmentation for face recognition tasks is proposed. The overall accuracy was 95.02% on a small dataset of the original face images of employees in the real-time environment. The proposed face recognition model could be integrated in another system with or without some minor alternations as a supporting or a main component for monitoring purposes.