1. An image recognition system for a vehicle comprising: at least two camera units, each camera unit configured to record an image of a road in the vicinity of the vehicle and to provide image data representing the respective image of the road; a first image processor configured to combine the image data provided by the at least two camera units into a first top-view image, wherein the first top-view image is aligned to a road image plane; a first feature extractor configured to extract lines from the first top-view image; a second feature extractor configured to extract an optical flow from the first top-view image and a second top-view image, which was generated before the first top-view image by the first image processor; and a kerb detector configured to detect kerbs in the road based on the extracted lines and the extracted optical flow and provide kerb data representing the detected kerbs.