Smart Attendance (Final Year Project)

Manual roll calls wasted around ten minutes per lecture and were easy to fake.

Trained a face-embedding pipeline with OpenCV and served it behind a FastAPI service. A React dashboard lets lecturers review and correct matches.

Containerised everything with Docker Compose so the whole stack starts with one command.

96% match accuracy on a 120-student test set; attendance now takes under a minute.

How to evaluate a model honestly with a held-out set, and why privacy and consent need to be designed in from the start.