I was asked yesterday if there are applications that can recognise and catalogue images, particularly of buildings.

Years ago I proposed a simpler (ontology reductive) system for tourism so I have an interest in uses for this technology but I am not in this field.
Nevertheless, a quick search found these links. No guarantees but some of the tools look very interesting indeed:

Firstly, an overview:
List of 14+ Image Recognition APIs

Most famous applications that as far as I know only search (and don’t categorise) from your photograph to what may match on the Web:
Google Goggles

More details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Goggles
Of course the way forward for entire scenes courtesy of Google + Stanford:
NB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Vision does not appear suitable here

For general purposes this looks promising

• http://clarifai.com/
• http://clarifai.com/#demo
• OR http://camfindapp.com/
• OR http://pastec.io/

If you wish the app to automatically sort and tag images (so that adatabase can automatically order them) do you have a developer?

• http://opencv.org/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/openpr/
• https://developer.vuforia.com/
• Developer info for clarifai above
• http://catchoom.com/documentation/image-recognition-sdk/ios-image-recognition-sdk/

Besides http://www.recognize.im/ you can also check out (and thanks to Quora):

• Moodstocks
• LTU technologies/JASTEC France

NB Diego Jiménez-Badillo, Mario Canul Ku, Salvador Ruíz-Correa, Rogelio Hashimoto-Beltrán have created a 3D version: “A machine learning approach for 3D shape analysis and recognition of archaeological objects“