User:Scale/enes100/Attendance

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

My First Task
find facial recognition software limitations and requirements.

Summary of actual work over first weekend
most of the work I was doing was tagging photos verses finding the limitations of the software I was just learning what it could do.

Week1 Narrative
I searched Google for there facial recognition software and found picasa. I downloaded picasa and it started finding faces in pictures and I tagged my face and confirmed my face and others. I began to take photos with a webcam to see if it could identify my face with new photos with little luck. Then downloaded all of my Facebook photos in order grow a larger database hoping this will help identify me in new photos. The photos were tagged and I tried to take webcam photos and it wouldn't recognize A face being in the photos.

My Second Task
I am going to troubleshoot picasa and see if there are options within the software to help get me where i need to be and recognize a face with a webcam and automatically tag.

Summary of actual work over second weekend
During the second week I grew a database of pictures of me with my web cam to see if it would identify me better if it used a webcam more. I also tried using other video cameras and a software called snapshot, which takes still photographs from videos, in order to compare in facial recognition.

Week2 Narrative
I tested picasas facial recognition software by growing a larger database on my webcam to see if the software would identify better over time. The webcam identified a face about 93% of the time but never identified me in the webcam. I then tried using a flip video camera and used snapshot so it would take still photographs of the video to try and recognize me. with little luck I am planning on looking toward other software's.

My Third task
my next task is going to involve working on a software that will take photos when people walk in and export to picasa on its own.

Summary of actual work over third weekend
I began looking for software's that would automatically take pictures but instead began to write my own code to sense people using C++ code.

Week3 Narrative
This week I stated looking online for software that would sense motion and begin taking photos, but in the process found that the software had issues such as hiding the picture files and not taking enough pictures after motion was detected. I found the best way to go was to start making my own code or using an open CV code to work with our other C++ code so it works as one file. I got the chance to find a compiler and write simple codes in it in order to grasp an understanding of the compiler called Dev C++.

My Fourth task
My next task is to continue working on a motion sensor that takes pictures of people as they walk in.

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
I downloaded the compiling software Dev C++ and downloaded the online code visual control and started to write code so i could import images not directly from a web cam so an outside software could take images and import them to visual control.

Week4 Narrative
I downloaded the compiler and the code online listed above and tried to find the part of the code where it imports pictures from the webcam. I found the point in the code labeled webcam widgets and when I tried to replace this with a file location the code would not run. I tried trouble shooting and recompiling the code with little luck.

Complete Team Page
this is what my team did on the facial recognition software with me Attendance project