recognizer

noun

recognizer

noun

Etymology From recognize + -er.

1

A person, device, or software algorithm that recognizes.

  • If we drive to work, a face recognizer installed in the car will decide whether to authorize our usage of the vehicle[…]2005, Stan Z. Li, Anil K. Jain, Handbook of face recognition, page 388:
  • The microphone signal was fed to a custom-made, real-time song recognizer that detected the first stereotypic syllable of song motifs using a two-layer neural network trained on spectrotemporal song data.2008 November 12, Georg B. Keller, Richard H. R. Hahnloser, “Neural processing of auditory feedback during vocal practice in a songbird”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7226, →DOI:
Derived terms
superrecognizer

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