The present invention discloses a stereoscopic seam carving and scaling method in the vertical direction. The method comprises the steps of A, inputting the left view, the right view and the disparity image of an original stereoscopic image, and setting the resolution of a target image; B, according to an energy function, calculating the energy value of each pixel point in the left view of the stereoscopic image; C, based on the dynamic programming method, finding out a plane seam in the left view of the stereoscopic image in the horizontal direction; D, executing the real projection strategy, and mapping the plane seam in the left view of the stereoscopic image into the right view of the stereoscopic image; E, according to an obtained seam section in the right view of the stereoscopic image through the real projection process, executing a policy based on the combination of the traditional seam carving method and the virtual projection method, spicing up spaced seams to obtain a corresponding seam in the right view of the stereoscopic image in the horizontal direction; F, simultaneously increasing or deleting the seam in the left view of the stereoscopic image and the seam in the right view of the stereoscopic image; G, repeatedly performing the steps C to F till the stereoscopic image is scaled to a specified size, and outputting a final left view and a final right view. According to the technical scheme of the invention, the overall features of the scaled image can be maintained, and important objects are highlighted. Meanwhile, the stereoscopic information of the stereoscopic image can be maintained.