The invention provides a visualization concept detector which is used for a retrieval process of a three-dimensional model. The visualization concept detector comprises a text description module, a semantic description module, a feature description module and a semantic concept computation module, wherein the text description module, the semantic description module and the feature description module are respectively used for constructing text description, network annotation and semantic concepts of synonym sets and shape and content characteristics in order to obtain a semantic concept vocabulary, and the text description, the network annotation and the semantic concepts are originated from a to-be-retrieved three-dimensional model. The semantic concept computation module is used for calculating through a probability model to obtain a core semantic concept vocabulary, namely a semantic field, and the visualization concept detector is combined to retrieve the three-dimensional model. Therefore, the harmful effect of 'semantic gap' is weakened, the calculated amount of three-dimensional model retrieval is reduced, the retrieval speed is accelerated, and the precision and the stability of retrieved results are enhanced.