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Setting the Thresholds in FaceRecognizer

Hello guys, i'm a newbie in computer vision, i want to ask a question about why

Sometimes you run into the situation, when you want to apply a threshold on the prediction

? what is this threshold for ?. I'hv been read this explanation at http://docs.opencv.org/2.4/modules/contrib/doc/facerec/facerec_api.html?highlight=facerecognizer "Setting the threshold", and it didn't explain why somtimes we need to setting the threshold for prediction. Since i know, thresholding is a method that create a binary image from grayscale image, why this threshold can determine whether a input face belongs to the training set or it is an unknown face?

Sorry for my bad english and my dumb question perhaps :D. Big regards.