APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING DRIVING OF VEHICLE

Disclosed is an apparatus for assisting driving of a vehicle including a camera installed in the vehicle to have a front field of view of the vehicle and obtain image data, and a controller to process the image data. The controller is configured to identify objects surrounding the vehicle and lanes defining a road on which the vehicle travels based on the processing of the image data, identify a lane in which the vehicle travels based on relative positions of the surrounding objects, and control the vehicle to change the lane based on a distance from the road on which the vehicle is traveling to an additional lane for entering an exit road.