The invention relates to a depth study method for detecting salient regions in a natural image. During a training phase, a certain number of pictures are selected from a natural image database, basic features of the images are extracted to form a training sample, subsequently, the extracted features are studied by using a depth study model so as to obtain enhanced advanced features which are more abstractive and more distinguishable, and finally, a classifier is trained by using studied features. During a testing phase, as to any test image, firstly, the base features are extracted, secondly, the enhanced advanced features are extracted by using the trained depth model, finally, salience is predicted by using the classifier, and a predicted value of each pixel point serves as a salient value of the point. In such a way, a salient image of the whole image can be obtained, and the higher the salient value is, the more salient the image is.