Anewrnultiscaleedgedetectionmethodispresented,whichisbasedonaneffectiveedgemeasure.Theeffectiveedgemeasure,usedtoadaptivelyadjustthescalesofwavelettransform,isdefinedusingthenovelfeaturesofimageedgeobtainedfromhumanbeingvisioncharacteristics.Finally,twoexperimentsshowthattheproposedalgorithmappearstoworkwell.