Due to the emergence of COVID-19 health issues, most of the higher education institutions throughout the globe had to quickly shift and adapt from on-site examination to online examination in 2020. In effect, identity verification and proctoring of online candidates became one of the key challenges to online examination today. Furthermore, in order to maintain the integrity of the online examination, it is crucial to confirm that the online candidates who finished the online examination and obtained academic credit are those who registered for the courses without engaging in cheating or impersonating other candidates. In this paper, a specific solution is proposed based on the authentication of biometric technology such as facial recognition to verify online candidate’s identity from the registered database and automatic proctoring system with artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to flag and generate alerts for suspicious behavior in live proctoring with high accuracy. .....

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