1. A shoe image retrieval apparatus using a matching pair comprising: a matching region search unit configured to extract features from a query image and search a matching region based on the extracted features; a matching information detection unit configured to detect a matching pair between the searched matching region and an image stored in a database and detect geometric image transformation using the detected matching pair; and a similar image retrieval unit configured to retrieve image information corresponding to the query image from the database based on the detected geometric image transformation.