Recognition may refer to: * Award, something given in recognition of an achievement

Machine learning

* Pattern recognition, a branch of machine learning which encompasses the meanings below

Biometric

Recognition of human individuals Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics. Biometric authentication (or realistic authentication) is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is also used to identify in ...

, 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 A fingerprint is an impression left by the friction ridges of a human finger. The recovery of partial fingerprints from a crime scene is an important method of forensic science. Moisture and grease on a finger result in fingerprints on surfac ...

, automated method of verifying a match between two human fingerprints **

Handwritten biometric recognition Handwritten biometric recognition is the process of identifying the author of a given text from the handwriting style. Handwritten biometric recognition belongs to behavioural biometric systems because it is based on something that the user has l ...

, 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 * Speaker recognition, the recognition of a speaker from their voice

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

* Activity recognition, the recognition of events from videos or sensors *

Gesture recognition Gesture recognition is a topic in computer science and language technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms. It is a subdiscipline of computer vision. Gestures can originate from any bodily motion or sta ...

, the interpretation of human gestures * Named entity recognition, the classification of elements in text into predefined categories * Object recognition *

Optical mark recognition Optical mark recognition (also called optical mark reading and OMR) is the process of reading information that people mark on surveys, tests and other paper documents. OMR is used to read questionnaires, multiple choice examination papers in the ...

, the capturing of human-marked data from document forms *

Sound recognition Sound recognition is a technology, which is based on both traditional pattern recognition theories and audio signal analysis methods. Sound recognition technologies contain preliminary data processing, feature extraction and classification algori ...

Neuroscience and psychology

* Visual object recognition * 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 * Emotion recognition * Pattern recognition (psychology)

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

Arts and entertainment

*" The Recognition", a science fiction short story by J. G. Ballard *" The Recognitions", a 1955 postmodernist novel by William Gaddis *''Recognition'', an EP by

The Europeans ''The Europeans: A sketch'' is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the "new" world of New England ...

* ''Recognise'' (album), a studio album by Fred V & Grafix, released in 2014 *"Recognise", a song by Lost Frequencies from the 2019 album '' Alive and Feeling Fine'' * "Recognize" (song), a 2014 song by PartyNextDoor *"Recognize", a song by Ol' Dirty Bastard from the 1999 album '' Nigga Please'' *"Recognize", a song by DJ Snake from the 2019 album '' Carte Blanche''

Law

* Recognition (parliamentary procedure), the assignment of the floor * Recognition (tax), an income tax concept * Recognition (family law), a process in some jurisdictions that confers legitimacy on a child * Diplomatic recognition, the acceptance of the sovereignty of a political entity * Legal recognition, recognition of a legal right in a jurisdiction

Other uses

*Recognise, a campaign by Reconciliation Australia for constitutional reform * Aircraft recognition, the skill of identifying aircraft on sight * Revenue recognition, in accrual accounting