recognizer

recognizer

English

Etymology

recognize +‎ -er

Noun

recognizer (plural recognizers)

1. A person, device, or software algorithm that recognizes.
   • 2005, Stan Z. Li, Anil K. Jain, Handbook of face recognition (page 388)

     If we drive to work, a face recognizer installed in the car will decide whether to authorize our usage of the vehicle […]

   • 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:doi:10.1038/nature07467:

     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.