Attendance is an essential part of an institutes to validate the presence of the students. Every institute will carry out this in a particular way. Some institutes are using the old paper based or file-based system and some of them are carrying the strategies of automatic attendance by using some biometric techniques. Recognition of face is method which is based on computerized software which is suitable for determine or validate a person by doing comparisons on patterns on their facial appearance. In this method OpenCV along with Face Recognition libraries are used these are one of the most popular libraries for face detection and recognition. By implementing this we can recognize face accurately and students as well as employee’s attendances are automatically stored in database.