Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for retrieving an image is provided, the method comprises: detecting, in response to receiving a query request comprising a target image, a target subject from the target image; extracting a subject feature from the target subject if a confidence level of a detection box of the detected target subject is greater than a first threshold, the subject feature comprising an identical feature, a similar feature and a category; performing matching on the subject feature of the target image and a subject feature of a candidate image pre-stored in a database, to obtain a similarity score and an identicalness score of the candidate image; and selecting, according to the similarity score and the identicalness score, a predetermined number of candidate images as a search result for output.