Explore object recognition techniques in this guest presentation by Dr. Arnold Smeulders. Delve into Bag of Words models, patch sampling methods, and dictionary formation for image classification. Learn about concept-specific codebooks, soft word assignment, and Fisher vectors. Examine visual synonyms and convex reduced codebooks. Investigate the importance of object location, context, and hierarchical search methods like selective search. Understand the interplay between object classification and localization in computer vision tasks.