Face Recognition Login System

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📷 A facial recognition based login system using Python,HTML,CSS and Bootstrap

Preview

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Tools & Libraries Used

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• Python - face_recognition - https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition
• XAMPP - https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html
• Bootstrap - https://getbootstrap.com/
• CGI

Note - These files must be hosted on XAMPP Apache server or other server, else login.py will not work.

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Working

• Install Python
• Install XAMPP
• Navigate to htdocs fodler and clone this project.
• Open login.py and make sure to replace the top comment #! C:\Python39\python.exe with your python path.
• Navigate to htdocs/face-recognition-login-system and execute the following command pip install -r requirements.txt
• Navigate to xampp/apache/config and modify the httpd.conf file by adding

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .py .cgi .pl .asp

at the end of the file. Then save & exit

• Then run XAMPP & go to localhost/face-recognition-login-system/login.html
• Put all the images of students in the 'students' folder
• Pictures must be in the format (email_address_of_student).jpg

Optional - you can create a seperate registration form for students, where they may upload their picture and the picture gets stored as (email_address).jpg in the 'students' folder.

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Making it work for Windows

Go to the python's installed location , in my case it was (C:\Python39) and right click on the python39 folder and go to security tab and give "Full Control" permission to users

And then go the scripts folder in python's installed path (C:\Python39\Scripts)

and run the below commands in that folder

Command 1 : C:\python39\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip --user

In the above command replace the exe path with your path

Comand 2 : pip install cmake --ignore-installed

Command 3 : pip install dlib --ignore-installed

Command 4 : pip install face_recognition --ignore-installed

Then try to restart the XAMPP Server it should work.

If it did not work, try installing below tools on windows

• CMAKE
• Visual Studio with CMAKE Build tools installed

Also to for debugging, ensure to check Apache Error Logs

Kindly follow the below Reference issues in case you are stuck ageitgey/face_recognition#1016 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51912999/could-not-install-packages-due-to-an-environmenterror-winerror-5-access-is-de