Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of human-computer interaction, and disclose a method and device for determining an interactive gesture and an electronic device. The method comprises the following steps: first, target component detection is performed; then, gesture detection and recognition are performed in a local area (around a boundary box) near the target component. In addition, for N gesture detection boxes (multiple users) in a current video frame, M target gesture detection boxes are selected therefrom to perform hand component positioning and
gesture recognition processing, which can reduce detection time consumption and improve real-time performance. On this basis, the interactive gesture is determined according to the gesture detection result of the current video frame and the gesture detection results of a plurality of historical video frames, that is,
gesture recognition is selectively performed on the user in each frame in a plurality of continuous video frames to determine the interactive gesture, which can reduce the computing power, reduce the time consumption, improve the real-time performance, and improve the accuracy and stability of the interactive gesture. That is, in the multi-user human-computer interaction scene, the interactive gesture can be accurately and timely determined.