VEHICLE POSITIONING APPARATUS, VEHICLE POSITIONING METHOD, AND VEHICLE

A vehicle positioning apparatus comprises a wheel information acquisition unit configured to acquire wheel information from a wheel detector that measures the wheel information, the wheel information being at least either an image of at least one wheel of a plurality of wheels provided with a vehicle capable of running by unmanned driving or three-dimensional point cloud data about the at least one wheel. The vehicle positioning apparatus comprises a wheel position acquisition unit configured to acquire the position of the at least one wheel using the acquired wheel information; and a position estimation unit configured to estimate the position and direction of the vehicle using the acquired position of the at least one wheel.