• Diplomatic recognition
  Diplomatic recognition
  Diplomatic recognition in international law is a unilateral political act with domestic and international legal consequences, whereby a state acknowledges an act or status of another state or government in control of a state...
  
  , acceptance of the sovereign status of a political entity by other sovereign governments
• Intra-species recognition
  Intra-species recognition
  Intra-species recognition is recognition by a member of a species of a conspecific . In many species, such recognition is necessary for procreation....
  
  
• Molecular recognition
  Molecular recognition
  The term molecular recognition refers to the specific interaction between two or more molecules through noncovalent bonding such as hydrogen bonding, metal coordination, hydrophobic forces, van der Waals forces, π-π interactions, electrostatic and/or electromagnetic effects...
  
  
• Recognition (international law)
• Recognition (parliamentary procedure)
  Recognition (parliamentary procedure)
  Recognition, in parliamentary procedure, is the assignment of the floor—that is, the exclusive right to be heard at that time—to a member of a deliberative assembly...
  
  , the assignment of the floor
• Recognition (sociology)
  Recognition (sociology)
  Recognition in sociology is public acknowledgement of person's status or merits .When some person is recognized, he or she is accorded some special status, such as a name, title, or classification...
  
  , an acknowledgement of merits
• Recognition (tax)
  Recognition (tax)
  In United States tax law recognition is among a series of prerequisites to the manifestation of gains and losses used by the Internal Revenue Service for determining federal income tax liability. First in the series for manifesting gain and loss a taxpayer must "realize" gain and loss...
  
  , an income tax concept
• Revenue recognition
  Revenue recognition
  The revenue recognition principle is a cornerstone of accrual accounting together with matching principle. They both determine the accounting period, in which revenues and expenses are recognized...
  
  

Technologies

• Aircraft recognition
  Aircraft recognition
  Aircraft recognition is a visual skill taught to military personal and civilian auxiliaries since the introduction of military aircraft in World War I. It is important for air defense and military intelligence gathering....
  
  
• Automatic number plate recognition
  Automatic number plate recognition
  Automatic number plate recognition is a mass surveillance method that uses optical character recognition on images to read the license plates on vehicles. They can use existing closed-circuit television or road-rule enforcement cameras, or ones specifically designed for the task...
  
  
• Facial recognition (disambiguation)
• Gesture recognition
  Gesture recognition
  Gesture recognition is a topic in computer science and language technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms. Gestures can originate from any bodily motion or state but commonly originate from the face or hand. Current focuses in the field include emotion...
  
  
• Handwriting recognition
  Handwriting recognition
  Handwriting recognition is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input from sources such as paper documents, photographs, touch-screens and other devices. The image of the written text may be sensed "off line" from a piece of paper by optical scanning or...
  
  
• Iris recognition
  Iris recognition
  Iris recognition is an automated method of biometric identification that uses mathematical pattern-recognition techniques on video images of the irides of an individual's eyes, whose complex random patterns are unique and can be seen from some distance....
  
  
• Language recognition (disambiguation)
• Magnetic ink character recognition
  Magnetic ink character recognition
  Magnetic Ink Character Recognition, or MICR, is a character recognition technology used primarily by the banking industry to facilitate the processing of cheques and makes up the routing number and account number at the bottom of a check. The technology allows computers to read information off...
  
  
• Named entity recognition
  Named entity recognition
  Named-entity recognition is a subtask of information extraction that seeks to locate and classify atomic elements in text into predefined categories such as the names of persons, organizations, locations, expressions of times, quantities, monetary values, percentages, etc.Most research on NER...
  
  
• Optical character recognition
  Optical character recognition
  Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping...
  
  
• Optical mark recognition
  Optical mark recognition
  Optical Mark Recognition is the process of capturing human-marked data from document forms such as surveys and tests.-OMR background:...
  
  
• Pattern recognition
  Pattern recognition
  In machine learning, pattern recognition is the assignment of some sort of output value to a given input value , according to some specific algorithm. An example of pattern recognition is classification, which attempts to assign each input value to one of a given set of classes...
  
  
• Recognition of human individuals
• Speech recognition
  Speech recognition
  Speech recognition converts spoken words to text. The term "voice recognition" is sometimes used to refer to recognition systems that must be trained to a particular speaker—as is the case for most desktop recognition software...
  
  
  • Audio-visual speech recognition
    Audio-visual speech recognition
    Audio visual speech recognition is a technique that uses image processing capabilities in lip reading to aid speech recognition systems in recognizing undeterministic phones or giving preponderance among near probability decisions....
    
    
  • Speaker recognition
    Speaker recognition
    Speaker recognition is the computing task of validating a user's claimed identity using characteristics extracted from their voices .There is a difference between speaker recognition and speech recognition . These two terms are frequently confused, as is voice recognition...
    
    
  • Subvocal speech recognition