Project

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1 AI Facial Recognition for Automated Room Access
 Chaohua Yao
Haowen Lin
Jianchong Chen
Zitong Qu
 Hua Chen
PROBLEM
Traditional check-in is slow, labor-intensive, and insecure. Manual verification creates bottlenecks, and physical cards are easily lost or shared.

SOLUTION OVERVIEW
An AI-powered kiosk that automates room card issuance. If the users registered ; the kiosk then uses facial recognition detection to verify identity and instantly dispense an stundent room card.

SUBSYSTEMS
Subsystem 1: Kiosk Hardware & Interface: Designing the terminal and mechanical dispenser.

Subsystem 2: Facial Biometrics: Implementing CNN-based recognition and anti-spoofing liveness detection.

Subsystem 3: Mobile Registration: A secure palce for user photo and ID uploads to a cloud database.

Subsystem 4: Authorization Logic: The algorithm that matches live scans to the database to trigger card issuance.

CRITERION FOR SUCCESS
Verification and issuance completed

Zero manual staff intervention required for 24/7 operation.

High-accuracy biometric binding to prevent unauthorized access.

DISTRIBUTION OF WORK

Jianchong Chen :Facial biometrics and liveness detection
Zitong Qu:Registration and database management.
Chaohua Yao: Kiosk hardware integration.
Haowen Lin:Authorization algorithm and security protocols.

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