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