The invention belongs to the field of ocean engineering, and particularly relates to an underwater image enhancement method based on unsupervised color correction. According to the method, the limitation that the channel B is used as a protruding channel is improved, so that the color distortion problem of processing the non-blue-color-cast underwater image is effectively solved; The method comprises an RGB color model, a contrast correction method, an HIS color model and an underwater image enhancement method based on unsupervised color correction. Compared with a common underwater image enhancement method, the underwater image enhancement method has the advantages that the underwater image enhancement method is improved into a self-adaptive method and has good processing effects on different color cast; The image is effectively balanced, color cast is eliminated, the illumination is improved, and the true color is increased. The method is easy to implement, small in calculated amountand high in reliability, the feasibility of underwater optical image recognition is improved, and the method has positive significance for development of unmanned underwater vehicles in the aspects of underwater operation tasks and the like in the future.