A method and an apparatus for extracting a saliency map are provided in the embodiment of the present application, the method includes: conducting first convolution processing, first pooling processing and normalization processing on an original image via a prediction model to obtain eye fixation information from the original image, where the eye fixation information is used for indicating a region at which human eye gaze; conducting second convolution processing and second pooling processing on the original image via the prediction model to obtain semantic description information from the original image; fusing the eye fixation information and the semantic description information via element-wise summation function; and conducting detection processing on the fused eye fixation information and semantic description information via the prediction model to obtain a saliency map from the original image. It is used for improving the efficiency of extracting the saliency map from image.