Abstract: Objective Due to the high mobility,rapid deployment and a wide range of monitoring,vehicle detec-tion and tracking system based on low-level mobile platform attract more and more attention.Cameralself-motion,outside interference and other reasons caused by low altitude mobile platforms impact theperformance of traditional vehicle detection algorithms.To resolve the above problems,a new methodon improved SURF color image stabilization is presented in this paper.From the experimental results,we can see,firstly,compared to other methods,the method proposed by the paper can achieve vehicledetection performance;secondly even in a complex background environment,the method in this papercan effectively detect moving vehicles.