The image recognition apparatus and an image recognition method

To provide an image recognition apparatus and an image recognition method, it is possible to suppress the processing load of image recognition processing, while effectively processing image recognition of the feature. Comprising: a host vehicle position information acquisition unit that acquires host vehicle position information; road attribute information of the road attribute information acquiring unit, acquires the host vehicle travel road based on the vehicle position information; an image information acquisition unit acquires image information around the vehicle itself; object type determining means determines, as for the image information into a subject image recognition processing of a feature or two or more classes; image recognition unit, the target feature type determining means determines the class of the object as a target feature, image information of the target feature in the image recognition process. Object type determining means based on the identification information of the attribute and the road attribute information about the image recognition processing of each feature type predetermined object class is determined.