Face-Based Access Control and Invigilation Tool for E-learning Systems

Abstract

Knowledge is a key factor to the personal success. Further, the certifications are the instant tools that are commonly available to assess the personal success. In an e-Learning environment, where the learning projects are delivered with the aim to provide a professional or an academic certification, it is integral that the Learning Management Systems provide security features that will ensure the credibility of the assessment and the certification. In a conventional examination environment, there will be invigilators to overlook the candidates, on the contrary, in an on-line examination environment; it is a mandatory requirement that an invigilation mechanism is implemented to ensure the integrity of the examination. In this paper, we present a face recognition based invigilation tool for online e-Learning systems