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Noun: face recognition
  1. Biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces
    "they used face recognition to spot known terrorists";
    - facial recognition, automatic face recognition
     
  2. The visual perception of familiar faces

Type of: beholding, biometric authentication, biometric identification, identity verification, seeing, visual perception

Encyclopedia: Face recognition