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Pattern recognition, a branch of machine learning which encompasses the meanings below
Biometric •
Recognition of human individuals, or biometrics, used as a form of identification and access control •
Facial recognition system, a system to identify individuals by their facial characteristics •
Fingerprint recognition, automated method of verifying a match between two human fingerprints •
Handwritten biometric recognition, identifies the author of specific handwriting, offline (static) or in real-time (dynamic) •
Iris recognition, a method of biometric identification
Linguistic •
Language identification, the problem of identifying which natural language given content is in •
Natural language understanding, the parsing of the meaning of text •
Speech recognition, the conversion of spoken words into text •
Speaker recognition, the recognition of a speaker from their voice
Textual •
Handwriting recognition, the conversion of handwritten text into machine-encoded text •
Magnetic ink character recognition, used mainly by the banking industry •
Optical character recognition, the conversion of typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text •
Automatic number plate recognition, the use of optical character recognition to read vehicle registration plates == Other meanings in computer science ==