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pattern recognition, incomputer science, the imposition of identity on inputdata, such as speech, images, or a stream of text, by the recognition and delineation of patterns it contains and their relationships. Stages in pattern recognition may involve measurement of the object to identify distinguishing attributes, extraction of features for the defining attributes, and comparison with known patterns to determine a match or mismatch. Pattern recognition has extensive application inastronomy,medicine,robotics, and remote sensing bysatellites.See alsospeech recognition.