face recognition

Noun
  1. Biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces (synset 106656868)
    "they used face recognition to spot known terrorists"
    referred to in: act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
    is a type of: biometric authentication, biometric identification, identity verification - the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics
    same as: automatic face recognition, facial recognition
  2. The visual perception of familiar faces (synset 105719153)
    is a type of: beholding, seeing, visual perception - perception by means of the eyes

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