| Main Entry: | face recognition |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | a type of pattern recognition of a person's face is recorded in a database for future attempts to determine or recognize a person's identity when the face is viewed by a reader; also called [facial recognition] |
| face recognition | |
noun | |
| 1. | 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. | the visual perception of familiar faces |