Definition of Face recognition

1. Noun. Biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces. "They used face recognition to spot known terrorists"


2. Noun. The visual perception of familiar faces.
Generic synonyms: Beholding, Seeing, Visual Perception

Lexicographical Neighbors of Face Recognition

face lifting
face like a bag of spanners
face man
face mask
face mask penalties
face mask penalty
face masks
face men
face off
face offs
face pack
face painting
face peel
face powder
face powders
face recognition (current term)
face saver
face saving
face soap
face that would stop a clock
face the facts
face the music
face time
face to face
face towel
face up
face up to
face validity
face value
face values

Literary usage of Face recognition

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2005 by National Academy of Engineering, Nae (2006)
"These challenge problems have provided the face- recognition community with a ... As face-recognition technology has matured, so has the sophistication of ..."

2. Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering by National Research Council (2002)
"For example, several companies are beginning to offer image-recognition software for face recognition and automatic classification of medical and other ..."

3. Endocrine Evaluation by Ian Ramsey, Anna Tebb (2006)
"Hand book of face recognition, springer, 2004. [22] Viola and Jones. Robust real time object detection. Proceedings, 2nd International Workshop on ..."

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