The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for detecting a salient region of an image. Classification processing is obtained by means of pre-training, so as to obtain a classification label, where the classification label is used to indicate a salience detection algorithm for detecting a salient region of the test image. Salience detection is performed on the test image by using the salience detection algorithm indicated by the classification label, so as to obtain the salient region of the test image. Because a salience detection algorithm with the best detection effect is acquired by using the image feature vector of the test image, to detect the salient region of the test image, accuracy of salience detection is improved.