Abstract:As one of the most important fields of artificial intelligence, image recognition is a technology that uses the computer to process, analyze and understand the image. In this paper, an image recognition and detection system based on ARM embedded chip is proposed, The hardware of the system adopts the idea of modular design to improve the compatibility of the system, it is divided into image acquisition, data acquisition, data processing and image recognition module; the software part of the scale invariant feature transform matching algorithm in order to improve the image recognition and image recognition speed and accuracy. The experimental results show that the designed system has the characteristics of high speed, high precision, high reliability and low failure.