face recognition

Questions about face recognition

What does face recognition mean?

face recognition means "biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for face recognition?

Close synonyms include facial recognition, automatic face recognition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is face recognition a common word?

face recognition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for face recognition come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.