Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces;
- Example: "they used face recognition to spot known terrorists"[syn: face recognition, facial recognition, automatic face recognition]
2. the visual perception of familiar faces;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
face recognition
n 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" [syn: face
recognition, facial recognition, automatic face
recognition]
2: the visual perception of familiar faces