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ABSTRACT
The main aim of this paper is to develop automatic handwriting, iris, DNA, Gait, etc. Biometrics
attendance system using speaker recognition techniques are widely used in various areas like
technique. The proposed system is software building security, forensic science, ATM, criminal
architecture which allows the user to access the identification and passport control [1]. In the proposed
system by making an utterance from microphone and automatic attendance system voice biometric is used
the attendance of corresponding user is marked in the for obtaining the attendance because each person has
Microsoft Office Excel. The propos proposed system unique characteristic in voice that can be captured and
automates the whole process of taking attendance. analyzed to make the proposed automatic
automati attendance
The system uses text dependent open open-set speaker system more efficient and effective. Voice recognition
identification with MFCC features and vector can be divided into two, which are speech recognition
quantization based speaker modeling for and speaker recognition. Both are using voice
authenticating the user. A simple Euclidean distance biometric differently. Speech recognition is the ability
scoring is used as the classifier. For decision making, to recognize what have been said sai while speaker
the new approach, mean value threshold is proposed recognition is the ability to recognize who is
to optimize the system performance. The database speaking.
consists of 60 speech samples which were collected
from 20 speakers consisting of 10 male speakers and Speaker recognition can be classified into
10 female le speakers. The experimental study shows identification and verification. Speaker identification
that the proposed system with mean value threshold is the process of determining which registered speaker
achieves better results in recognition accuracy and provides a given utterance. Speaker verification, on
verification performance than the system with other the other hand, is the process of accepting or rejecting
threshold setting. the identity claim of a speaker. Speaker identification
task is further classified into open-
open and closed-set
Keyword: automatic attendance system; sspeaker tasks. If the target speaker is assumed to be one of the
recognition; voice biometric; mean value threshold; registered
ed speakers, the recognition task is a closed-
closed
maximum value threshold set problem. If there is a possibility that the target
speaker is none of the registered speakers, the task is
I. INTRODUCTION called an open set problem. In general, the open-set
open
In many institutions and organizations the attendance problem is much more challenging. In the closed-set
close
is a very important factor for various purposes and its task, the system makes a forced decision simply by
one of the important criteria is to follow for students choosing the best matching speaker from the speaker
and organization employees. The previous approach database no matter how poor this speaker matches.
in which manually taking and maintains tthe However, in the case of open-set
open identification, the
attendance records was very inconvenient task. As an system must have a predefined tolerance levelleve so that
alternative solution, biometrics technologies can be the similarity degree between the unknown speaker
introduced to construct a more powerful version of and the best matching speaker is within this tolerance.
attendance system. Biometric is an authentication In this way, the verification task can be seen as a
technique that recognizes unique features in eeach special case of the open-setset identification task, with
human being. Some of the commonly used biometric only one speaker in the database [2]. Speaker
features include voice, face, signature, finger print, recognition methods can also be divided into text- text
Table1.
1. Experimental results of the two systems
Threshold No: of Test Successful
No Size of Database FR FA
setting Samples Recognition
1 Mean value threshold 40 60 40 0 0
2 Maximum value threshold 40 60 38 0 2
According to experiments, it is found that the both systems and false acceptance rate (FAR) is 0
attendance marking accuracy of the proposed system percent and 5 percent respectively for the proposed
is 100 percent while the system with maximum value system and the system with maximum value
threshold achieves 95 percent of attendance marking threshold. The attendance marking accuracy and
accuracy. When verification performance is taken into verification performance of the two systems are
account,
ccount, the false rejection rate (FRR) is 0 percent for shown in Table 2.
Table2. Attendance marking accuracy and verification performance of the two systems
Attendance marking
No. Threshold setting No: of Test Samples Size of Database FRR FAR
accuracy
Mean value
1 40 60 100% 0% 0%
threshold
Maximum value
2 40 60 95% 0% 5%
threshold
V. CONCLUSION
The experimental result shows that using mean value parents, wife and son for their support and
threshold setting helps to optimize system understanding during the research work.
performance. As a result, the recognition accuracy or
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Licentiate's Thesis, University
Uni of Joensuu,
The author would like to take the opportunity to thank
Department of Computer Science, December 21,
all of his colleagues who have given him support and
(2003).
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