In 2024, the sector in Europe recorded a value of USD 11.94 billion, equating to a year-over-year growth of 22.6%.
Current projections suggest that by 2033, the Europe AI Image Recognition Market valuation will total USD 49.58 billion, registering an estimated CAGR of 16.9% during the forecast period.
Regulatory emphasis on explainability and sensor-data governance is pushing buyers to favor modular pipelines where inference, logging and provenance are separable, increasing demand for MLOps suites that integrate device attestations and audit trails.
Smart-city traffic-count and curbside-monitoring pilots that require privacy-preserving blur and consent logs are accelerating contracts for vendors who combine certified edge devices, model interpretability tools and ongoing annotation support to meet municipal procurement standards.
DataCube Research Report (Nov 2025): This analysis uses 2024 as the actual year, 2025 as the estimated year, and calculates CAGR for the 2025-2033 period.
*Research Methodology: This report is based on DataCube’s proprietary 3-stage forecasting model, combining primary research, secondary data triangulation, and expert validation.
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