CHEAT DETECTION IN ONLINE EXAMINATIONS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

With increasing use of ICT and technical advancements in the education sector, distant and online education as well as examinations are being carried out frequently. However, online examination, as a method of assessment offers the risk of an unmonitored setting where students have full access to external resources. Online-proctored exams are the most efficient way for educational institutions to ensure academic honesty and ethics to counteract this. Typically, proctoring requires human assistance in the form of online proctors who remotely monitor students' performance. Yet, due to the rising demand for personnel and the intrusive nature of human proctoring, it is imperative to explore other areas. To tackle this pressing issue, this research work aims to devise a novel architecture that, through the development of a robust and automated Artificial Intelligence system, enables students to take exams remotely and reduces proctor involvement. The method overcomes the shortcomings of the previous automated proctoring system by combining important components of online exam cheating detection with cost-effective and efficient hardware. By proposing a Hybrid of FaceNet Model, Lucas Kanade Algorithm, and Active Appearance Model for Face Detection and Activity Monitoring of the student, the proposed system extracts semantic indicators to evaluate whether an applicant is cheating in an online examination. The proposed Cheat Detection system's experimental results measured via an F-score of 0.94 demonstrate its efficacy, and promising performance compared to the standard baseline techniques.