The invention discloses a gesture recognition method based on an acceleration transducer and belongs to the technical field of gesture recognition. The gesture recognition method disclosed by the invention can automatically judge a starting point and a finishing point of an action in a calculation process, without the intervention of external control. The gesture recognition method can eliminate gestures step by step, which do not accord with standards, in three steps (an included angle, a characteristic and a state), so that the total calculation amount is reduced; meanwhile, the probability of incorrect operation is also reduced. An action library characteristic is obtained through acquiring a plurality of gesture specimens, is input by a system, and cannot be automatically adjusted by an individual user. Although a requirement on characteristic differences of the gestures is high, the calculation amount is small, the recognition rate is high, the timeliness of an algorithm is improved, and rapid recognition can be realized at a low cost.