Recognition
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Recognition may refer to:
- Award, something given in recognition of an achievement
In science and technology
In computer science
- Pattern recognition, a branch of machine learning which encompasses the meanings below
Biometric
- Recognition of human individuals, or biometrics, used as a form of identification and access control
- Facial recognition system, a system to identify individuals by their facial characteristics
- Fingerprint recognition, automated method of verifying a match between two human fingerprints
- Handwritten biometric recognition, identifies the author of specific handwriting, offline (static) or in real-time (dynamic)
- Iris recognition, a method of biometric identification
Linguistic
- Language identification, the problem of identifying which natural language given content is in
- Natural language understanding, the parsing of the meaning of text
- Speech recognition, the conversion of spoken words into text
- Speaker recognition, the recognition of a speaker from their voice
Textual
- Handwriting recognition, the conversion of handwritten text into machine-encoded text
- Magnetic ink character recognition, used mainly by the banking industry
- Optical character recognition, the conversion of typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text
- Automatic number plate recognition, the use of optical character recognition to read vehicle registration plates
Other meanings in computer science
- Activity recognition, the recognition of events from videos or sensors
- Gesture recognition, the interpretation of human gestures
- Named entity recognition, the classification of elements in text into predefined categories
- Object recognition
- Optical mark recognition, the capturing of human-marked data from document forms
- Sound recognition
In neuroscience and psychology
- Visual object recognition
- Face perception, the process by which the human brain understands and interprets the face
- Pareidolia, a psychological phenomenon in which a vague stimulus is perceived as significant
- Recall (memory), the retrieval of events or information from the past
- Emotion recognition
- Pattern recognition (psychology)
In other sciences
- Recognition (sociology), a public acknowledgement of person's status or merits
- Antigen recognition, in immunology
- Intra-species recognition, the recognition of another member of the same species
- Molecular recognition, the interaction between two or more molecules through non-covalent bonding
In arts and entertainment
- "The Recognition", a science fiction short story by J. G. Ballard
- Recognition, an EP by The Europeans
- Recognise (album), a studio album by Fred V & Grafix, released in 2014
In law
- Recognition (parliamentary procedure), the assignment of the floor
- Recognition (tax), an income tax concept
- Recognition (family law), a process in some jurisdictions that confers legitimacy on a child
- Diplomatic recognition, the acceptance of the sovereignty of a political entity
- Legal recognition, recognition of a legal right in a jurisdiction
Other uses
- Recognise, a campaign to raise awareness of the need for Indigenous Australians to be recognised in the Australian constitution
- Aircraft recognition, the skill of identifying aircraft on sight
- Revenue recognition, in accrual accounting
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Recognition
- All pages with titles containing Recognition
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