The invention discloses an automatic control method for surface defect shaping of strip steel. The automatic control method for surface defect shaping of the strip steel comprises the steps of feeding, rough rolling, detecting, material supplementing, polishing, washing, knocking and winding, wherein rough rolling is conducted on the planar strip steel, the surface of the planar strip steel is detected, the defect type is judged according to a detection signal, and at least one of material supplementing, polishing and knocking is conducted on the portion, with a shape defect, of the surface of the strip steel according to the defect type and the position. According to the automatic control method for surface defect shaping of the strip steel, the defect on the surface of the strip steel can be detected automatically, the defect type is judged according to the detection signal, at least one of material supplementing, polishing and knocking is adopted for conducting corresponding shaping on different shape defects on the surface of the planar strip steel according to the defect type, in this way, fine shaping of tiny shape defects on the surface of the strip steel is achieved, working efficiency is high, the shaping effect is good, secondary damage is avoided during shaping, and the smoothness of the surface of the shaped strip steel is high.