Meanings
nounrecognizer (plural recognizers)
plural recognizers
- 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 3881 more example
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
Origin
- Proto-Italic*wre-
- Latinre-
- Old Frenchre-
- Middle Englishre-
- Englishre-
- Englishcognize
- Englishrecognize
- Englishrecognizer
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