Drawing on the suvey of visual attention degree and its significance in psychology and physiology , in recent years, researchers have proposed a lot of visual attention model and algorithms, such as Itti model and many saliency detection algorithms. And in recent years, the researchers applied the visual attention of this technology in a lot of directions, such as a significant regional shifts and visual tracing detection model based on network loss, for video quality evaluation. This paper summarizes the various algorithms and its application of visual attention and its significance.