User:Jshin7059/enes100/Attendance

Write problem/project Goal
Find an easy way of taking attendance using facial recognition software.

My First Task
Summarize previous group's work.

Summary of actual work over first weekend
I read through the previous project and found it to be confusing, not detailed and generally not very helpful. Since that was my job, I did something else and looked at various possible software I could use.

Week1 Narrative
I read another group's project. I did not find it helpful. It seemed that they were unable to get facial recognition working.

Then I googled "facial recognition software." I found some possibilities to try out including Picasa and facebook and facial recognition applications.

My Second Task
I am going to try to use facebook's facial recognition program to get it to match faces with a minimal database.

Summary of actual work over second weekend
I tested facebook's facial recognition abilities and that was my task. But more so, I ended up working with Picasa, finding it to be more effective.

Week2 Narrative
I uploaded photos from the web onto a facebook account. I tagged some of the pictures and saw facebook did not do a very good job of grouping the same person. It was able to match some of the untagged photos to the right tagged person, but more often, a new grouping was created for the untagged person.

Steven had been doing a good job working with Picasa and found it had a similar problem. I felt Picasa would not be a viable solution but when less photos were used with Picasa, the results were much better. Steven had used a massive database of untagged faces to compare a few faces. Using a smaller database yielded almost perfect results.

My Third task
I will add celebrity photos found on the web in the facial recognition group folder (facebook). I will tag some of the photos and see if facebook can sort the untagged pictures correctly.

Summary of actual work over third weekend
I planned mostly working with facebook but ended up with working with Picasa mostly.

Week3 Narrative
I have uploaded some random web photos to Picasa. Also, I took pictures of myself, my family, my dog, a plant using Picasa. Picasa is doing a good job of recognizing faces and matchign them to the right person. Now I need a complete collection of classmates' photos to which to compare new webcam photos. I will need to take pictures as people walk in the classroom.

My Fourth task
Marc is going forward using HaarCascasdes which in close proximity, from webcam to face, works fairly well. About 75% of the time it correctly matches the face to the database but the problem is that it is difficult to take a good picture, especially as people walk in the room. I think Picasa will be more effective. I am going to create a small database of students in this class using Picasa. I will stop one person at a time as they enter the classroom in order to take 2-3 good pictures (good distance, good facial view) of each student. After compiling this data, I will take pictures without stopping students at the door and see how affective Picasa will be at matching faces.

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
How is what you did different than what you planned?

Week4 Narrative
Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend.

Complete Team Page
Fill out the Team Form (should have already copied the form, created the team page, linked to it and started filling it out).