noun
biometric identification by scanning a person's face and matching it against a library of known faces
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they used face recognition to spot known terrorists
• Syn: ↑face recognition, ↑facial recognition
• Topics: ↑terrorism, ↑act of terrorism, ↑terrorist act
• Hypernyms: ↑biometric identification, ↑biometric authentication, ↑identity verification
Useful english dictionary. 2012.