Image recognition can generally be done very efficiently on a single commodity PC. Even a phone that is a few years olds can do quite a lot. Or a Raspberry PI.

Image recognition can generally be done very efficiently on a single commodity PC. Even a phone that is a few years olds can do quite a lot. Or a Raspberry PI. So it generally does not need distributed computing solutions. I am talking about models like YOLO, ResNet, MobileNets, etc.