DESIGN AND USABILITY OF FACE RECOGNITION BASED ANNOUNCEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

The rapid developments in technology have an increasing impact and use on biometric person recognition systems. Facial recognition-based systems, one of the biometric person recognition systems, have been widely used in recent years thanks to their easy implementation, fast integration and simple usage as they do not require any additional equipment. Especially the widespread use of computer vision and cloud-computing based applications, smart face recognition systems have become an indispensable part of our lives in recent years. The use of these systems, which have become widespread in security, health, education, military, shopping mall and industrial areas, has increased more during the pandemic period. Institutions and organizations do not want to allocate time and cost to write their own software for face recognition based systems. The services offered by major cloud computing providers can be used to solve this problem. In this context, the article presents a smart announcement system design using cloud computing based face recognition technology. In the past, making an announcement has been seen as a difficult task. It was thought to be a time consuming task, both because of the cost of printing and because all the operations had to be repeated when there were changes in the announcement. Today, signs have left their places to digital screens. It will especially ensure that announcements, warnings, promotions, and notifications are performed effectively at the developed system for large scale institutions, organizations, factories, universities, shopping malls and health institutions. Facial recognition based smart announcement system detects features such as person recognition, gender, and age estimation at a rate of 100% and displays personal announcements according to their priority status. In addition, according to the experimental studies, it was observed that the person recognition and the presentation of the announcements on the screen took an average of 1.3 seconds. According to the announcement system survey, 85% of those who use the system stated that it is useful and user-friendly.