Biometric Attendance Techniques in COVID-19: A Review

Abstract

Now a days COVID-19 is spreading everywhere that has badly affected the countries in social as well as economical perspectives. According to SOP’s people have to maintain social distance, use face mask and avoid biometric devices for attendance in order to prevent the corona virus. Several techniques have been developed in order to maintain the attendance in Covid-19 pandemic by considering the precautions to reduce the spread of corona virus. This paper provides the review on the biometric techniques such as face recognition, palm recognition, face mask detection, face recognition and iris detection techniques adopted in COVID-19 to maintain/mark the attendance in an organizations/institutes. However, the challenges of the Covid-19 techniques also are part of this  paper that highlights the issues in current techniques. The prime focus of this study is to differentiate biometric method for researchers or users to decide which tools are better for their requirements.