1. An apparatus for recognizing a lane line, comprising: an image capture unit configured to acquire an image of the surroundings including a roadway ahead of a subject vehicle; an edge-point extractor configured to extract edge points in the image; an first-edge-point detector configured to detect first edge points facing at least one missing section of a broken line in the edge points extracted by the edge-point extractor; and a lane-line recognizer configured to recognize a lane line using the edge points extracted by the edge-point extractor other than all or some of the first edge points.