Abstract: This application discloses a gesture recognition method and apparatus accurately recognizes a gesture of a user and improves user experience. The method includes: obtaining echo data of a radar, where the echo data includes information generated when an object moves in a detection range of the radar; filtering out, from the echo data, information that does not meet a preset condition, to obtain gesture data, where the preset condition includes at least two of a distance, a speed, or an angle, the distance includes a distance between the object and the radar, the speed includes a speed of the object relative to the radar, and the angle includes an azimuth or a pitch angle of the object in the detection range of the radar; extracting a feature from the gesture data, to obtain gesture feature information; and obtaining a target gesture based on the gesture feature information.