Recognition may refer to: *

Award An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An awar ...

, something given in recognition of an achievement

Machine learning

Pattern recognition Pattern recognition is the automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data. It has applications in statistical data analysis, signal processing, image analysis, information retrieval, bioinformatics, data compression, computer graphic ...

, 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 facial recognition system is a technology capable of matching a human face from a digital image or a video frame against a database of faces. Such a system is typically employed to authenticate users through ID verification services, and wor ...

, 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 Handwriting is the writing done with a writing instrument, such as a pen or pencil, in the hand. Handwriting includes both ...

, identifies the author of specific handwriting, offline (static) or in real-time (dynamic) **

Iris recognition Iris recognition is an automated method of biometric identification that uses mathematical pattern-recognition techniques on video images of one or both of the irises of an individual's eyes, whose complex patterns are unique, stable, and can ...

, a method of biometric identification

Linguistic

Language identification In natural language processing, language identification or language guessing is the problem of determining which natural language given content is in. Computational approaches to this problem view it as a special case of text categorization, sol ...

, the problem of identifying which natural language given content is in *

Natural language understanding Natural-language understanding (NLU) or natural-language interpretation (NLI) is a subtopic of natural-language processing in artificial intelligence that deals with machine reading comprehension. Natural-language understanding is considered an ...

, the parsing of the meaning of text *

Speech recognition Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the ma ...

, the conversion of spoken words into text *

Speaker recognition Speaker recognition is the identification of a person from characteristics of voices. It is used to answer the question "Who is speaking?" The term voice recognition can refer to ''speaker recognition'' or speech recognition. Speaker verification ...

, the recognition of a speaker from their voice

Textual

Handwriting recognition Handwriting recognition (HWR), also known as handwritten text recognition (HTR), is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input from sources such as paper documents, photographs, touch-screens and other dev ...

, the conversion of handwritten text into machine-encoded text *

Magnetic ink character recognition Magnetic ink character recognition code, known in short as MICR code, is a character recognition technology used mainly by the banking industry to streamline the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents. MICR encoding, called the ' ...

, used mainly by the banking industry *

Optical character recognition Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a sc ...

, the conversion of typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text **

Automatic number plate recognition Automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR; see also other names below) is a technology that uses optical character recognition on images to read vehicle registration plates to create vehicle location data. It can use existing closed-circuit t ...

, 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 Named-entity recognition (NER) (also known as (named) entity identification, entity chunking, and entity extraction) is a subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify named entities mentioned in unstructured text into pre- ...

, the classification of elements in text into predefined categories *

Object recognition Object recognition – technology in the field of computer vision for finding and identifying objects in an image or video sequence. Humans recognize a multitude of objects in images with little effort, despite the fact that the image of the ...

* Optical mark recognition, the capturing of human-marked data from document forms * Sound recognition

Neuroscience and psychology

Visual object recognition Visual object recognition refers to the ability to identify the objects in view based on visual input. One important signature of visual object recognition is "object invariance", or the ability to identify objects across changes in the detailed c ...

Face perception Facial perception is an individual's understanding and interpretation of the face. Here, perception implies the presence of consciousness and hence excludes automated facial recognition systems. Although facial recognition is found in other ...

, the process by which the human brain understands and interprets the face *

Pareidolia Pareidolia (; ) is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Common examples are perceived images of animals, ...

, a psychological phenomenon in which a vague stimulus is perceived as significant *

Recall (memory) Recall in memory refers to the mental process of retrieval of information from the past. Along with encoding and storage, it is one of the three core processes of memory. There are three main types of recall: free recall, cued recall and serial ...

, the retrieval of events or information from the past *

Emotion recognition Emotion recognition is the process of identifying human emotion. People vary widely in their accuracy at recognizing the emotions of others. Use of technology to help people with emotion recognition is a relatively nascent research area. Genera ...

Pattern recognition (psychology) In psychology and cognitive neuroscience, pattern recognition describes a cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory.Eysenck, Michael W.; Keane, Mark T. (2003). Cognitive Psychology: A Stude ...

In other sciences

Recognition (sociology) Recognition in sociology is the public acknowledgment of a person's status or merits (achievements, virtues, service, etc.). In psychology, excessively seeking for recognition is regarded as one of the defining traits of a narcissistic personali ...

, a public acknowledgement of person's status or merits *

Antigen recognition Antigen presentation is a vital immune process that is essential for T cell immune response triggering. Because T cells recognize only fragmented antigens displayed on cell surfaces, antigen processing must occur before the antigen fragment, now ...

, in immunology *

Intra-species recognition Intra-species recognition is the recognition by a member of a species of a conspecific (another member of the same species). In many species, such recognition is necessary for procreation. Different species may employ different methods, but all ...

, the recognition of another member of the same species *

Molecular recognition The term molecular recognition refers to the specific interaction between two or more molecules through noncovalent bonding such as hydrogen bonding, metal coordination, hydrophobic forces, van der Waals forces, π-π interactions, halogen ...

, 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 Diplomatic recognition in international law is a unilateral declarative political act of a state that acknowledges an act or status of another state or government in control of a state (may be also a recognized state). Recognition can be accord ...

, the acceptance of the sovereignty of a political entity *

Legal recognition Legal recognition of a status or fact in a jurisdiction is formal acknowledgement of it as being true, valid, legal, or worthy of consideration, and may involve approval or the granting of rights. For example, a nation or territory may requ ...

, recognition of a legal right in a jurisdiction

Other uses

*Recognise, a campaign by

Reconciliation Australia Reconciliation Australia is a non-government, not-for-profit foundation established in January 2001 to promote a continuing national focus for reconciliation between Indigenous (i.e. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people) and non-Indige ...

for constitutional reform *

Aircraft recognition Aircraft recognition is a visual skill taught to military personnel and civilian auxiliaries since the introduction of military aircraft in World War I. It is important for air defense and military intelligence gathering. Aircraft recognition g ...

, the skill of identifying aircraft on sight *

Revenue recognition The revenue recognition principle is a cornerstone of accrual accounting together with the matching principle. They both determine the accounting period in which revenues and expenses are recognized. According to the principle, revenues are reco ...

, in accrual accounting