Recognition

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Recognition may refer to:

• Pattern recognition, a branch of machine learning which encompasses the meanings below

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• "The Recognition", a science fiction short story by J. G. Ballard
• The Recognitions, a 1955 postmodernist novel by William Gaddis
• Recognition, an EP by The Europeans
• Recognise (album), a studio album by Fred V & Grafix, released in 2014
• "Recognise", a song by Lost Frequencies from the 2019 album Alive and Feeling Fine
• "Recognize" (song), a 2014 song by PartyNextDoor
• "Recognize", a song by Ol' Dirty Bastard from the 1999 album Nigga Please
• "Recognize", a song by DJ Snake from the 2019 album Carte Blanche

• 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

• Recognise, a campaign by Reconciliation Australia for constitutional reform
• Aircraft recognition, the skill of identifying aircraft on sight
• Revenue recognition, in accrual accounting

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