Image recognition technology is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables computers to identify and analyze objects, patterns, and features within digital images or videos. This technology uses complex algorithms to detect specific visual characteristics within an image, such as shapes, colors, textures, and patterns.

Image recognition technology works by breaking down an image into small pieces and comparing these pieces to a vast database of pre-defined patterns and features. This database is created through machine learning, where the computer is trained on large datasets of images to recognize specific objects, faces, or scenes.