The invention discloses an image type fire flame identification method. The method comprises the following steps of 1, image capturing; 2, image processing. The image processing comprises the steps of 201, image preprocessing; 202, fire identifying. The fire identifying comprises the steps that indentifying is conducted by the adoption of a prebuilt binary classification model, the binary classification model is a support vector machine model for classifying the flame situation and the non-flame situation, wherein the building process of the binary classification model comprises the steps of I, image information capturing;II, feature extracting; III, training sample acquiring; IV, binary classification model building; IV-1, kernel function selecting; IV-2, classification function determining, optimizing parameter C and parameter D by the adoption of the conjugate gradient method, converting the optimized parameter C and parameter D into gamma and sigma 2; V, binary classification model training. By means of the image type fire flame identification method, steps are simple, operation is simple and convenient, reliability is high, using effect is good, and the problems that reliability is lower, false or missing alarm rate is higher, using effect is poor and the like in an existing video fire detecting system under a complex environment are solved effectively.