In order to solve the problems of interframe hopping,mechanically selecting reference frame,missing edge information in traditional electronic image stabilization method,an electronic image stabilization method based on adaptive compensation is proposed.Firstly,the reference frame is updated adaptively,and feature points are extracted and matched for the follow-up frames and updated reference frame,then the global motion parameters relative to the first frame can be solved through parameter iteration method.Secondly,different global motion parameters are distinguished,such as rotation angle,horizontal and vertical offset,the scanning movement was isolated from the global motion parameters by filtering and the random jitter can be compensated.Finally,motion compensation can be achieved by backward mapping and image mosaic,namely compensating the image edge information according to the basis reference frame of information.Experimental results indicate that the video sequence after image stabilization has good stable visual effect with higher PSNR and ITF.The method has good robustness,and can achieve image stabilization under different video scenes,which meets the precision requirements.