The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for estimating emotions, the apparatus and the method analyzing surrounding environment images obtained through a camera capable of capturing images of a frontal environment, so as to quantitatively extract spatial context information that can influence human emotion, thereby estimating an emotional state. The present invention quantitatively extracts the spatial context information that can influence human emotion through the results of an analysis of surrounding environment images, an analysis of subjective emotional reactions of people according to the images, and an analysis of biometric signals, thereby providing the type of emotion of a user actually influenced by different surrounding environment images.
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING EMOTIONS BY USING SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT IMAGES