The present invention provides a wardrobe intelligent management apparatus and method, and is used to the field of Internet of things and smart home technologies. The wardrobe intelligent management apparatus comprises an image collecting module, an image partitioning module, a clothing feature extracting module, a clothing storage module, and a human-computer interaction interface. The image collecting module shoots an image of clothing. The image partitioning module extracts the image of foreground (clothing). The clothing feature extracting module generates a feature vector of the clothing, wherein the feature vector comprises a clothing image, a color label, a color feature, a local texture feature, a texture category, a contour feature, and a contour category. The clothing storage module records information that the wardrobe stores the clothing. The wardrobe intelligent management method is based on the wardrobe intelligent management apparatus. A data table that clothing is stored in the wardrobe is used, and clothing storage, searching, and browsing are performed. According to the present invention, different clothing can be accurately recognized without adding a superfluous recognizer or changing an existing wardrobe structure, so that a structure is simple and costs are low.