The invention provides an intelligent traffic monitoring camera for identifying vehicle illegal movement modes. The intelligent traffic monitoring camera comprises a video acquisition module, an image processing module, a vehicle illegal movement mode classified processing module and a video transmission system, wherein the video acquisition module is a network monitoring camera; the image processing module is arranged in the camera, comprises a mode identification system and is capable of carrying out mode identification on vehicle action based on locus histograms and support vector machines; and the vehicle illegal movement mode classified processing module is also arranged in the camera and is used for processing information identified by the image processing module. The intelligent traffic monitoring camera is capable of automatically identifying the vehicle illegal movement modes of vehicles in a current video monitoring frame and extracting license plate information of the vehicles in time, so that the purpose of intelligent monitoring is realized; in addition, the intelligent traffic monitoring camera is capable of solving traffic accidents to a certain degree and can provide powerful evidence for traffic accident responsibility determination and division.