# Recognition

Recognition may refer to:

## Machine learning

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

### Biometric

* Recognition of human individuals, 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, automated method of verifying a match between two human fingerprints
** Handwritten biometric recognition, 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, the interpretation of human gestures
* Named entity recognition, the classification of elements in text into predefined categories
* Object recognition
* Optical mark recognition, the capturing of human-marked data from document forms
* Sound recognition

## 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
* 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