automatic face recognition


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Noun1.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"
act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
biometric authentication, biometric identification, 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"
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Khan, "Effects of pose and image resolution on automatic face recognition," IET biometrics, Vol 5, No.
Marnie's saucy Instagram display comes after she struggled to make it through an automatic face recognition machine at the airport due to the difference between her passport picture and current look.
[5] Zhao, S.;Grigat, R.: An Automatic Face Recognition System in the Near Infrared Spectrum.
Technical details were shared with the faculty of management studies, who gave various suggestion including identifying the users of the website, reworking the contents of the home page, portability of the data across platforms used by different stakeholders, details of the child entered, use of automatic face recognition techniques and integrating the website with social networking sites etc," Singh said.
al., propose a fully automatic face recognition system based on probabilistic decision-based neural networks (PDBNN).
Automatic face recognition is an interesting and challenging task and is used in people's everyday life, ranging from security and surveillance systems to smartphones, smart homes and intelligent digital photography [1-3].

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