NOUN | communication | face recognition, facial recognition, automatic face recognition | biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces |
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cognition | face recognition | the visual perception of familiar faces |
Meaning | biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces. | |
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Example | "they used face recognition to spot known terrorists" | |
Synonyms | facial recognition, automatic face recognition | |
Category | terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act | The calculated use of violence (or the threat / threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature |
Broader | biometric identification, biometric authentication, identity verification | The automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics / characteristics |
Meaning | The visual perception of familiar faces. | |
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Broader | visual perception, beholding, seeing | perception by means of the eyes |
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