Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun face_recognition

2 senses of face recognition

Sense 1
face recognition, facial recognition, automatic face recognition -- (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")
       => biometric identification, biometric authentication, identity verification -- (the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics; "negative identification can only be accomplished through biometric identification"; "if a pin or password is lost or forgotten it can be changed and reissued but a biometric identification cannot")

Sense 2
face recognition -- (the visual perception of familiar faces)
       => visual perception, beholding, seeing -- (perception by means of the eyes)