Recognition

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

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

• Gesture recognition, the interpretation of human gestures
• Named entity recognition, the classification of elements in text into predefined categories
• Optical mark recognition, the capturing of human-marked data from document forms

In neuroscience and psychology

• 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

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 (EP), by the band Europeans

In law

• Recognition (parliamentary procedure), the assignment of the floor
• Recognition (tax), an income tax concept
• Diplomatic recognition, the acceptance of the sovereignty of a political entity
• Legal recognition, recognition of a legal right in a jurisdiction

Other uses

• Aircraft recognition, the skill of identifying aircraft on sight
• Revenue recognition, in accrual accounting

See also

• All pages beginning with "Recognition"
• All pages with titles containing Recognition