Abstract: The present invention relates to an unmanned aerial vehicle having an automatic tracking function and a control method thereof, the unmanned aerial vehicle comprising: an image input unit for acquiring an image of a peripheral image of a subject to be photographed; an object recognition unit for extracting a region of interest using the image acquired through the image input unit, detecting a specific region located within the region of interest to measure coordinates, and recognizing the specific region as an object to be tracked; an object tracking unit for calculating and tracking a position of the object to be tracked recognized by the object recognition unit using a tracking learning detection (TLD) learning algorithm and generating a drive command for driving the unmanned aerial vehicle corresponding to the position; a motion recognition unit for recognizing a motion of the object to be tracked and generating a driving command corresponding to a photographing mode, a moving picture photographing mode, a