This project will be created under the guidelines provided by the Research Project module offered in 4th Year by the Faculty of Computing. The title of the project is "Student and Lecturer Performance Enhancement System". This Research Project comes under the domain of Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning along with the support of Computer Vision.
## Main Objective
Main Objectives that will be targetted in this Research Project will be listed as follows.
* Tracking student attendance using facial detection and facial recognition and notify and getting opinion from the students who are absent and students who are leaving the lecture in the during a specified time period (Attendance Register).
* Monitoring student behavior within the classroom during lecture periods to identify potential problem areas in retaining student attention and adapting the lecturing styles to suit the student needs (Monitoring Student Behavior).
* Summarize the converted text and present as a document and identify the important points of the lecture to display them highlighted (Lecture Summarizing).
* Monitoring lecturers’ behavior by analyzing the teaching style in a lecture hall during the lecture hours (Monitor Lecturer Performance).
## Main Research Questions
This Research Project will be conducted to find answers for the following 4 research questions.
* “What is the optimum way of tracking student attendance in a much efficient way and how does the lecturer analyze reasons for student absenteeism?” (Q1).
* “Does a correlation exist between lecturing style and student behavior in the classroom and how can Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence be incorporated in determining this relationship?” (Q2).
* “How to summarize the lecture content to enable students to pay more attention to the lecture and reduce time spend for taking notes?” (Q3).
* “How to evaluate lecture performance by tracking their behavior during a lecture and analyzing the quality of the lecture content which is delivered by the lecturer?” (Q4).
## Individual Research Questions
The main research questions came up for the project were based on each individual component that will be implemented through the course of the project. Hence, the individual research questions could be listed down as follows.
### Attendance Register
*What is the optimum way of tracking student attendance in a much efficient way and how does the lecturer analyze reasons for student absenteeism?*
### Monitoring Student Behavior
*Does a correlation exist between lecturing style and student behavior in the classroom and how can Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence be incorporated in determining this relationship?.*
### Lecture Summarizing
*How to summarize the lecture content to enable students to pay more attention to the lecture and reduce time spend for taking notes?*
### Monitoring Lecturer Performance
*How to evaluate lecture performance by tracking their behavior during a lecture and analyzing the quality of the lecture content which is delivered by the lecturer?”*
## Individual Objectives
The main objectives of the research project could be further split into individual objectives which elaborates purpose of the project in much detail.
### Attendance Register
* Tracking student attendance using facial detection and facial recognition.
* Notify and getting opinion from the students who are absent and students who are leaving the lecture in the during a specified time period.
* Setting up student data and respective course data in an adaptive manner.
* Provide an overview for the lecturer regarding student attendance through a dashboard and predicting future attendance.
### Monitoring Student Behavior
* Monitoring student behavior within the classroom during lecture periods to identify potential problem areas in retaining student attention and adapting the lecturing styles to suit the student needs.
* Identifying the concentration level, emotion expressions and general behavior of students within 2-hour lecture duration using facial recognition, emotion recognition and motion detection employing computer vision technologies.
* Determining the dependency between student behavior and the lecturer behavior by analyzing overall behavior status of students and lecturer for a given time frame during the lecture.
### Lecture Summarizing
* Understand lecturer’s voice and filter the lecturer’s voice by removing background noises and silent pauses
* Convert the noise-filtered audio into text
* Summarize the converted text and present as a document.
* Identify the important points of the lecture to display them highlighted.
* Display important notices mentioned in the lecture.
### Monitoring Lecturer Performance
* Monitoring lecturers’ behavior by analyzing the teaching style in a lecture hall during the lecture hours.
* Identifying the lectures emotional state when the lecture is conducting.
* Generating an end-semester feedback of the lecturer giving a summary of their performance.
