Object recognition device and object recognition method

An object recognition device includes: a data holding unit that stores a reference image of an object of a recognition candidate, each feature point in the reference image, and a feature quantity at each feature point; an image acquisition unit acquires a scene image that is an image of a recognition processing target; a definition calculation unit detects definition indicating the degree of sharpness in each region of the scene image; and a feature acquisition unit and a matching calculation unit that detect a feature point in the scene image to perform a process of matching with the feature point. The matching calculation unit executes, by different methods, an extraction method of feature points in a first region of the scene image where the definition is a first range and in a second region of the scene image where the definition is a second range lower than the first range.