1. A feature information collecting apparatus, comprising: a first memory; and a controller that: acquires vehicle position information that represents a current position of a vehicle; acquires image information for a vicinity of the vehicle; carries out image recognition processing on recognition target objects that are included in the image information; stores recognition information in the first memory that represents a result of the image recognition of the recognition target objects in association with information for the recognition position of the recognition target objects, the recognition position determined based on the vehicle position information; and extracts, as learned features, recognition target objects that can be repeatedly recognized by image recognition based on a plurality of sets of recognition information related to the same position, the plurality of sets of recognition information being stored due to the image information for the same position being recognized a plurality of times by image recognition; wherein the recognition information is a characteristic amount represented by at least one of a noise amount and an amount of extractions of edge included in the image information.