Image recognition apparatus, method, and program for enabling recognition of objects with high precision

Provided are an image recognition apparatus, an image recognition method, and a program for enabling recognition of many kinds of objects with high precision. An overall recognition unit executes, for at least one given object, a process of recognizing the position of the object in an image. A partial image extraction unit extracts, from the image, a partial image which is a part of the image associated with the recognized position. A partial recognition unit executes a process of recognizing what is one or more objects represented by the partial image, the one or more objects including an object other than the given object the position of which is recognized.