Abstract: By taking visual saliency into consideration,a new image retrieval method based on color coherence vector is proposed in the paper.According to the saliency map of the image,every pixel is assigned a weighting value.Thus,the color coherence vector is calculated on those weighted pixels.This new vector reflects both the low-level color region distribution feature of the image,and its high-level vision characteristics.The experiments verify this method above is more efficiently than traditional ways based on color histogram.