face recognition

Knowing someone's visage

Face recognition is the ability to identify or verify a person from their facial features.

The term applies both to the human cognitive faculty—how we recognize friends in a crowd—and to computer systems that match faces against databases: The phone uses face recognition to unlock, Airports are deploying face recognition at security checkpoints.

Also called facial recognition.

Opposites
biometric identification method

face recognitionfingerprint scanning

Identity verification through ridge patterns

fingerprint recognition · iris scanning · voice recognition · signature verification

anonymity vs identification

face recognitionanonymity

Unknown identity state

de-identification · mask wearing · privacy protection · untraceability · masking

recognition capability

face recognitionface blindness

Cannot distinguish individual countenances

non-recognition · misidentification

Family

face, recognition, identity verification, facial recognition

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G