Abstract: With continuous acceleration of current social development process and constant innovation and development of information technology，computer vision technology comes into being，which is widely used in all walks of life in our country and even more important for development of agricultural automation.Therefore，computer vision technology was mainly focused on and an overview of its application mainly in field of agricultural automation was given.It pointed out current problems of applying computer vision technology in field of agricultural automation，and solutions were proposed.It was hoped that this research could provide a reference for innovation of computer vision technology and development of agricultural automation in China.