---
title: "Object Recognition"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/zia-services/object-recognition/
description: "This page describes the method to use the Object Recognition feature to locate objects in your Python application with sample code snippets"
last_updated: 2026-06-09T07:46:16Z
service: Zia Services
type: general
related_links:
  - name: "Object Recognition - API"
    url: /en/api/code-reference/zia-services/object-recognition/#ObjectRecognition
  - name: "SDK Scopes"
    url: /en/sdk/python/v1/sdk-scopes
---

# Object Recognition

[Object Recognition](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/zia-services/help/object-recognition/introduction/) detects,locates, and recognizes individual objects in an image file. Zia Object Recognition can identify 80 different kinds of objects from images.

You can provide a .webp/.jpeg or .png file as the input to the `open()` method. This method returns the image file object as a response. Refer to the [API documentation](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/api/code-reference/zia-services/object-recognition/#ObjectRecognition) for the request and response formats.

The `detect_object()` method is used detect and identify the objects in the image, and the input
file is passed as an argument to this method. It returns the coordinates of each object, their type, and the confidence
score of each recognition.

To know more about the component instance `zia` used below, please refer to [this help section](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/zia-services/get-component-instance/).

**Parameters Used**

<table class="content-table">
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th class="w20p">Parameter Name</th>
         <th class="w20p">Data Tyoe</th>
      <th class="w60p">Definition</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
    <tr>
			<td>`img`</td>
         <td>Image</td>
			<td>A **Mandatory** parameter. Will store the image that has to be analyzed for objects.</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

```python
zia = app.zia()
img = open("sample.webp", "rb")
result = zia.detect_object(img)

```

A sample response is shown below :

```json
{
   "objects":[
      {
         "co_ordinates":[
            "322",
            "125",
            "708",
            "1201"
         ],
         "object_type":"person",
         "confidence":"99.82"
      }
   ]
}

```

> **Info :** Refer to the [SDK Scopes table](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/sdk-scopes) to determine the required permission level for performing the above operation.