An electronic image stabilization method based on a visual attention mechanism includes the following steps: conducting foreground moving area detection on a reference frame, marking foreground moving sub blocks, extracting overall situation remarkable characteristic points in the reference frame, matching characteristic point pairs, removing error-matched characteristic point pairs, acquiring moving parameters, conducting moving filtering, conducting rapid moving compensation, and rebuilding undefined boundary information to acquire a panoramic image. By means of the method, compensation parameters are acquired through extraction, matching, checking and moving parameter calculation of the overall situation remarkable characteristic point pairs and self-adaptation filtering smooth movement, vision stability and definition between video frames are improved, instability of video sequences is removed or reduced, and observation effects of a video monitoring or tracking system is improved.