In the intelligent method for viewing the surveillance video of the present invention, Because the multi-channel surveillance videos are integrated into a virtual surveillance scene for panoramic viewing, it is possible to view surveillance videos from the plurality of channels at the same time, reduce the viewing time. In addition, one frame of image is extracted at the same time point for a video of the multi-channel surveillance videos, and a next frame of image is extracted after a predetermined time interval, instead of extracting all the images to have a view, and thus it is possible to improve the efficiency and not to miss important video information. In the present invention, the extracted images are processed to obtain visual images of interest, which is advantageous to make the video information and video details in the videos that are of interest to human eye salient and also improve the efficiency.