samchung95 / frat

Facial Recognition Attendance Taker is an application that helps to take attendance using a webcam and the cascade classifier from OpenCV

FRAT

Facial Recognition Attendance Taker is an application that helps to take attendance using a webcam and the cascade classifier from OpenCV. A simple csv writer has been created to write the attendance of users whos face has been captured and has not been already written in the csv for that day.

Installation

1. Install Python 3.10 from dependencies folder

2. Install Cmake from dependencies folder

3. Instal Visio Studio
   Install the c++ compiler of the visual studio code community version

   

4. Update pip, setuptools and wheel
   

   py -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
   

5. Set the execution policy for the current user scope
   

   Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
   

6. Optionally, create a virtual environment
   

   py -m venv tutorial_env
   tutorial_env\Scripts\activate
   

7. Install requirements.txt
   

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

Example

1. Run example.py

   python example.py
   

How to use

0. import FRAT

   from frat import FRAT

1. Create FRAT class with callback if any

   frat = FRAT(callback)

2. Create encodings

   frat.encodeFaces()

   Note: Make sure to put an image in a folder inside 'images' before encoding faces. e.g.(image/samuel/samuel.jpg)

3. Start FRAT

   frat.start()

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