AI-Powered Unified Attendance and Participation Analytic System

Abstract

Accurate attendance verification and participation tracking are essential in both academic and corporate settings. Traditional methods—manual registers, RFID cards, and biometric systems — are prone to errors, proxy abuse, and they fail to provide insights into how people engage during sessions. In this paper, we?propose a unified AI-assisted system that integrating facial recognition, Geofencing, and computer vision based attention detection within a scalable framework. The solution can be applied in multiple Scenarios: for?smart-phone users (with a double verification process by means of face recognition and Geo-fence validation), - for non-smart phone users it would only cover entry-point cameras on the premises, - remote participants are evaluated through meeting analytic tracking gaze, eye openness and head pose. Constructed with Fast API, MongoDB and a React Dashboard, the infrastructure is designed for real-time insights?and modular extensibility. Experimental results shows 97.4% for face verification, 99.2% in Geo-fence validation and an average of 92.1% accuracy in attention classification with an average of 85 ms latency per frame proving it as a robust and dynamic solution toward smart attendance?management system.

Introduction

The text discusses the limitations of traditional attendance systems and proposes a unified AI-powered framework that integrates facial recognition, geo-fencing, and real-time attention analytics to improve accuracy, security, and engagement measurement in academic and corporate environments.

1. Role of Attendance and Participation

Attendance is not just a formality—it reflects productivity, accountability and engagement. Modern institutions expect attendance systems to provide insights beyond simple presence, including user attentiveness.

2. Limitations of Existing Methods

Manual registers are slow and error-prone, while RFID and biometric systems can be costly, inflexible and prone to proxy misuse. Current AI systems are often fragmented, focusing only on identity verification or GPS tracking, and do not measure user engagement. These limitations are more serious in hybrid or remote environments.

3. Proposed Unified AI Framework

A new integrated system combines:

• Facial Recognition using VGG-Face + Retina-Face

• Geo-fencing for context-aware presence validation

• Attention Detection via gaze, eye openness, and head pose

It supports smartphone, non-smartphone, and remote users, offering real-time verification and engagement analytics. The system uses FastAPI + Java microservices, MongoDB, and a React dashboard.

4. Literature Review Insights

Early RFID/biometric systems improved efficiency but still suffered from spoofing and lacked support for remote or hybrid models. Modern AI-based facial recognition has improved significantly but faces challenges like occlusion and lack of extensibility. Geo-fencing helps verify location but depends heavily on smartphone GPS accuracy. Engagement analytics research shows gaze and head pose correlate strongly with attention but systems remain isolated prototypes. Visual dashboards help decision-making but often treat attendance and engagement separately.

5. Problem Statement

Existing attendance solutions are fragmented, insecure, and unsuitable for hybrid environments. Most systems only confirm presence, not engagement, leading to the need for a comprehensive AI-driven solution that integrates verification, location authentication, and attentiveness measurement.

6. System Framework & Workflow

The system follows a three-layer architecture:

• Frontend: Kotlin app + React dashboard

• Backend: FastAPI + Java microservices for recognition, GPS validation, and analytics

• Data Layer: MongoDB for attendance logs, GPS traces, and engagement scores

Core modules include real-time data acquisition, preprocessing (face embeddings, GPS filtering, timestamp sync), verification (face, geo-fence, engagement scores), database management, and visualization dashboards.

7. Operation Across User Scenarios

• Mobile App Users: Dual verification (geo-fence + face).

• Non-Smartphone Users: Verified via IP camera modules.

• Remote Users: Engagement measured through meeting video streams using OpenCV + MediaPipe.

8. Data Flow

Capture → Preprocess → Verify → Store → Visualize
Real-time alerts flag low attention levels or verification failures.

9. Scalability & Extensibility

The system is containerized using Docker and orchestrated with Kubernetes, making it scalable and fault-tolerant. It can be extended with new modules such as voice verification, sentiment analysis, or LMS integration.

10. Methodology

Users register with a single facial image. Preprocessing includes embedding extraction, GPS validation, and time synchronization. Verification uses cosine similarity for facial matching and radius-based geo-fence calculations. Remote attention scoring uses eye and head metrics to generate engagement scores between 0 and 1.

Conclusion

This paper presents a novel AI based attendance and participation analysis system that achieves uniform accuracy, higher reliability and inclusiveness across both educational and professional environments. By integrating Facial Recognition, Geo-fencing, and Engagement Analytics, the system bridges the gap between physical presence verification and meaningful participation measurement. Unlike conventional attendance tools that rely on manual data entry or fixed biometric devices, the proposed solution combines facial and landmark verification with geo-location validation to ensure authenticity and eliminate proxy attendance. The seamless integration of Kotlin-based mobile applications, FastAPI microservices, and WebSocket-powered real-time dashboards enables smooth synchronization between users, backend systems, and administrators—resulting in a fast, reliable, and transparent attendance process. Experimental evaluations demonstrate the system’s robustness, achieving 97.4% accuracy in face verification, 99.2% accuracy in geo-fence validation, and 93.5% accuracy in attention analytics, all with an average end-to-end latency below two seconds. These results confirm that pretrained models such as VGG-Face and Retina-Face, when combined with lightweight geo-spatial and behavioral analytics pipelines, can deliver real-time performance without requiring extensive retraining on new data. Apart from?that the system is built in a modular way making it easy to scale and modify. It supports people with smartphones, IoT–based edge devices and remote attendees simultaneously in one work framework that enables?flexibility in hybrid or decentralized workspace. Ethical aspects—a.o.?data encryption, user consent and automated retention control—reinforce the system’s alignment with privacy standards such as GDPR. Ultimately, the Attendify architecture exemplifies how computer vision, geo-spatial analytics, and cloud microservices can converge to build an ecosystem that is secure, intelligent, and inclusive. It redefines attendance management—transforming it from a mere record of presence into a dynamic measure of engagement and productivity. This work lays the foundation for future advancements in AI-powered institutional automation, driving efficiency and accountability in next-generation learning and professional systems.

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Copyright

Copyright © 2025 Satyam Gupta, Ritesh , Simran Rout, Anurag Singh, Dr. Pradeep . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.