Image processing apparatus and method for night vision

There are provided an image processing apparatus and an image processing method for night vision that can generate a night vision image in which the overall quality thereof is maintained to be excellent and an obstacle is easily distinguished. The image processing apparatus for night vision includes: a brightness improving unit improving the brightness of an inputted infrared image; an obstacle judging unit judging whether an obstacle is present by analyzing an infrared image in which brightness is improved by the brightness improving unit; an obstacle region separating unit separating an image of a region judged as the obstacle by the obstacle judging unit; and an image synthesizing unit synthesizing the image of the region judged as the obstacle separated by the obstacle region separating unit with the inputted infrared image.