Object recognition is the area of artificial intelligence (AI) concerned with the abilities of robots and other AI implementations to recognize various things and entities. Object recognition allows robots and AI programs to pick out and identify objects from inputs like video and still camera images.

The definition of object recognition is intuitively clear. Artificial intelligence can recognize particular objects in images, videos, or others with the guidance of specified parameters. Facial recognition software embedded in most modern smartphones is the simplest example of this technology in action.

Object recognition is a key technology behind driverless cars, enabling them to recognize a stop sign or to distinguish a pedestrian from a lamppost. It is also useful in a variety of applications such as disease identification in bioimaging, industrial inspection, and robotic vision.