Image recognition is a vital component in robotics such as driverless vehicles or domestic robots. Image recognition is also important in image search engines such as Google or Bing image search whereby you use rich image content to query for similar stuff. Like in Google photos where the system uses image recognition to categorize your images into things like cats, dogs, people and so on so that you can quickly search your albums for things like, “give me photos of my cat”, that's awesome.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://dphi.tech/practice/challenge/28