<![CDATA[The issue of automatic attendance marking has been successfully resolved in recent years through the utilization of standard biometric approaches. Although this strategy is automated and forward-thinking, its use is hindered by time constraints. Acquiring a thumb impression requires the individual to form a line, which might lead to inconvenience. The innovative visual system utilizes a computer and camera to detect and record students’ attendance based on their facial features. This article presents a face recognition based automatic attendance system. This system includes- image acquisition, image enhancement using histogram equalization, image segmentation by fuzzy C means clustering technique, building classification model using K-nearest neighbour (KNN), support vector machine (SVM) and AdaBoost technique. For experimental work, 500 images of students of a class are selected at random. Accuracy of KNN algorithm in proposed framework is 98.75%. It is higher than the accuracy of SVM (96.25%) and AdaBoost (86.50%). KNN is also performing better on parameters likesensitivity, specificity, precision and F_measure.]]>
