$${\color{red}Welcome \space \color{lightblue}To \space \color{lightgreen}Biometric Attendance}$$

1. Preferably use python3.8 and set up a virtual environment using the command:

python3 -m venv <venv name>

source <venv name>/bin/activate

2. Clone the project

3. Run in terminal the following command:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

1. Django inbuilt sqlite3 is used to store data and attendance of user.
2. Encrypted Password is stored in the students data table.
3. face_recognition and openCV module is used for computer vision.
4. Captured photo is being processed in the form of base64 with the help of webcam.js library API being offered by soundflare which is then decoded in python

1. There's a case where the api key being used to access webcam.js through soundflare be expired. In such a scenario, replace it with a fresh API Key through this website https://cdnjs.com/libraries/webcamjs

2. Don't forget to make migrations.

3. Don't forget to activate venv before running python3 manage.py runserver

• This is the homepage of the website.

• This page accepts 3 parameters, Roll No., Password, Face. If the face and password to the corresponding roll number is correct, it then proceeds to a confirmation page which results in the marking of attendance on that date.

• This page is used to register a new student in the database.

• This page offers a dropdown of dates among which the user chooses one. All the present students on that date is displayed in a table.