A vehicle-mounted environment recognition apparatus comprising: a pattern matching unit which is configured to extract an object candidate from an image acquired from a vehicle-mounted image capturing apparatus by using a pattern shape stored in advance and to output a position of the object candidate; an area change amount prediction unit which is configured to calculate a prediction of a movement amount of the object candidate and to output a predicted position of said object candidate, characterized in that said prediction of the movement amount is calculated on the basis of a calculation method, which is set differently for each area of a plurality of areas obtained by dividing the acquired image, information about a detected vehicle behavior and an inputted position of the object candidate; the apparatus further comprising: a tracking unit which is configured to track the object candidate on the basis of said object candidate of a current period inputted by the pattern matching unit and said movement change amount of the current period being predicted from said object candidate of a previous period by the area change amount prediction unit, wherein the area change amount prediction unit includes an area three-dimensional position presumption unit which is configured to presume a three-dimensional position of the object candidate in a three-dimensional vehicle coordinate system from the position of the object candidate in a two-dimensional image coordinate system inputted from the pattern matching unit, an area three-dimensional position prediction unit which is configured to predict a three-dimensional position of the object candidate in the vehicle coordinate system after predetermined periods on the basis of the vehicle behavior information and a presumption result of the three-dimensional position of the object candidate in the vehicle coordinate system obtained by the area three-dimensional position presumption unit, and an area image position prediction unit which is configured to convert a prediction result of the three-dimensional position predicted by the area three-dimensional position prediction unit into image coordinates and calculates an image position of the object. a pattern matching unit which is configured to extract an object candidate from an image acquired from a vehicle-mounted image capturing apparatus by using a pattern shape stored in advance and to output a position of the object candidate; an area change amount prediction unit which is configured to calculate a prediction of a movement amount of the object candidate and to output a predicted position of said object candidate, characterized in that said prediction of the movement amount is calculated on the basis of a calculation method, which is set differently for each area of a plurality of areas obtained by dividing the acquired image, information about a detected vehicle behavior and an inputted position of the object candidate; the apparatus further comprising: a tracking unit which is configured to track the object candidate on the basis of said object candidate of a current period inputted by the pattern matching unit and said movement change amount of the current period being predicted from said object candidate of a previous period by the area change amount prediction unit, a tracking unit which is configured to track the object candidate on the basis of said object candidate of a current period inputted by the pattern matching unit and said movement change amount of the current period being predicted from said object candidate of a previous period by the area change amount prediction unit, the area change amount prediction unit includes an area three-dimensional position presumption unit which is configured to presume a three-dimensional position of the object candidate in a three-dimensional vehicle coordinate system from the position of the object candidate in a two-dimensional image coordinate system inputted from the pattern matching unit, an area three-dimensional position prediction unit which is configured to predict a three-dimensional position of the object candidate in the vehicle coordinate system after predetermined periods on the basis of the vehicle behavior information and a presumption result of the three-dimensional position of the object candidate in the vehicle coordinate system obtained by the area three-dimensional position presumption unit, and an area image position prediction unit which is configured to convert a prediction result of the three-dimensional position predicted by the area three-dimensional position prediction unit into image coordinates and calculates an image position of the object.