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Descriptor English: Facial Recognition
Descriptor Spanish: Reconocimiento Facial
Descriptor reconocimiento facial
Entry term(s) percepción de emociones en la cara
procesamiento de emociones en la cara
procesamiento facial
reconocimiento de emociones en la cara
reconocimiento de expresiones faciales
reconocimiento facial de emociones
reconocimiento facial de la identidad
Scope note: Capacidad para identificar a una persona por sus características faciales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Reconhecimento Facial
Descriptor French: Reconnaissance faciale
Entry term(s): Emotion Perception, Face
Emotion Processing, Face
Emotion Recognition, Face
Emotion Recognition, Facial
Expression Recognition, Facial
Face Emotion Perception
Face Emotion Processing
Face Emotion Recognition
Face Perception
Face Processing
Face Recognition
Facial Emotion Recognition
Facial Expression Recognition
Facial Identity Recognition
Identity Recognition, Facial
Perception, Face
Perception, Face Emotion
Processing, Face
Processing, Face Emotion
Recognition, Face
Recognition, Face Emotion
Recognition, Facial
Recognition, Facial Emotion
Recognition, Facial Expression
Recognition, Facial Identity
Tree number(s): F02.463.593.524.250.500
F02.463.593.524.500.500
F02.463.593.932.622.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000066499
Scope note: Ability to identify an individual from their facial features.
Annotation: human and animal; AUTOMATED FACIAL RECOGNITION is also available
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Pattern Recognition, Visual (1977-2015)
Public MeSH Note: 2016
History Note: 2016
Related: Biometric Identification MeSH
Prosopagnosia MeSH
DeCS ID: 56087
Unique ID: D000066499
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2016/01/01
Date of Entry: 2015/07/07
Revision Date: 2020/06/22
Facial Recognition - Preferred
Concept UI M000595535
Scope note Ability to identify an individual from their facial features.
Preferred term Facial Recognition
Entry term(s) Face Perception
Face Processing
Face Recognition
Facial Identity Recognition
Identity Recognition, Facial
Perception, Face
Processing, Face
Recognition, Face
Recognition, Facial
Recognition, Facial Identity
Facial Emotion Recognition - Narrower
Concept UI M000678497
Scope note Ability to interpret a person's feelings and emotions based on their facial expressions.
Preferred term Facial Emotion Recognition
Entry term(s) Emotion Perception, Face
Emotion Processing, Face
Emotion Recognition, Face
Emotion Recognition, Facial
Expression Recognition, Facial
Face Emotion Perception
Face Emotion Processing
Face Emotion Recognition
Facial Expression Recognition
Perception, Face Emotion
Processing, Face Emotion
Recognition, Face Emotion
Recognition, Facial Emotion
Recognition, Facial Expression



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