The disclosure includes a system and method for identifying multiple items in an image. A image recognition application receives a query image of items, computes features of the query image, for each feature finds an indexed image with closest matched features in a database, determines that the shape of the matched features is geometrically consistent, determines whether the query image matches the indexed image, responsive to the query image matching the indexed image, returns inliers, determines a region of interest where the match was found in the query image, removes inliers from the set of features to reduce the set of features and returns all matches found when the query image fails to match the indexed image.