There is an ever increasing amount of digital visual information being produced. For instance, there are over 800 million mobile phones with integrated cameras. These cameras are increasingly used as a tool in order to remember or share things by just snapping pictures. Have a look at your digital photo collection today, and imagine how large it is gonna be in 30 years.

And did you know, that each day 50 million photos are uploaded to Facebook? So, there is huge amount of digital images being produced, but organizing and searching them by their contents is not possible without image recognition.