The invention discloses a multichannel bionic vision method for recognizing a complex scene image, and the steps of the method mainly employ three transformation channels. For the first channel, the method comprises the steps: carrying out the forwarding channel calculation of an original image through simulating a multichannel vision processing mechanism of a human brain, obtaining a candidate target set, and generating the memory information at two stages at the same time; for a second channel, the method comprises the steps: sequentially carrying out the reverse channel calculation of all candidate targets through the memory information, and obtaining an impact image in the original image, so as to form a target edge image; for the third channel, finally carrying out the transformation of the target edge image for two times through employing a second forwarding channel algorithm, obtaining a feature transformation image, and carrying out the verification in the candidate set, so as to complete the image recognition. The method extracts the vision memory information through simulating the multichannel vision processing mechanism of the human brain, effectively simulates the multichannel vision processing mechanism of the human brain through the reverse channel calculation, and is high in accuracy of an obtained recognition image.