Desarrollo de un sistema prototipo para el registro de asistencia de estudiantes de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional, basado en reconocimiento facial

Abstract

This technical project introduces a prototype based on facial recognition for student attendance record at the Escuela Politécnica Nacional. This will provide professors an alternative tool that allow them to speed up the attendance registration process and centralize this information on a server connected to a database. The prototype is made up of a database, a server programmed in Python and a client application that will run on Android mobile devices. In the database all the information of the students, the users, and the attendance records will be stored. The server will be responsible for processing all customer requests. In addition, it will be responsible for making queries to the database, processing all facial recognition and generating attendance reports. The client application will be in charge of send the requests by the users to the server, and will be in charge of capture the images of the students for the attendance record and send them to the server. This document is organized in 5 chapters and a Supplemental Material section. The first chapter describes an introduction to the prototype that will be developed, the objectives, the defined scope, and a theoretical framework, which defines and explains all the tools that will be used in the project. Then, the second chapter includes the methodology of the project and the system requirements, also it illustrates the necessary diagrams to define the prototype processes, all based on Scrum; after that, the implementation is done. Later, the third chapter describes the performed tests on the prototype and the obtained results. Additionally, the errors found throughout the implementation are corrected in this chapter. Next, the fourth chapter shows the conclusions and recommendations for further projects. Thereafter, the fifth includes the references. Finally, the Supplemental Material is in the last chapter.