The invention discloses a migration classification learning method for maintaining a 
sparse structure of image classification. The method includes the steps of finding two different source and targetdomains with 
similar distribution, the source domain containing 
label data, firstly, training a classification classifier on the source domain by using a supervised classification method, and predicting a pseudo 
label of target domain data by using the classifier; secondly, constructing edge distribution and conditional distribution terms of the source and target domain data respectively by usingthe maximum 
mean difference, and combining the both to form a joint distribution term; thirdly, constructing a sparse representation matrix S on all the data by using an effective projection 
sparse learning toolkit, to construct a 
sparse structure preserving term; fourthly, constructing a 
structural risk minimization term by using the 
structural risk minimization principle; and fifthly, combiningthe 
structural risk minimization term, the joint distribution term, and the 
sparse structure preserving term to construct a uniform migration classification learning framework, and substituting into the framework using a classification 
function representation theorem including a kernel function to obtain a classifier that can be finally used to predict the target domain category.