The present invention discloses a video pedestrian recognition method based on a convolution neural network. The method comprises a step of reading the video in a video database, intercepting a video frame, and extracting the HOG feature of the video frame, a step of constructing and training the convolution neural network, a step of selecting a plurality of character feature attributes and designing a support vector machine classifier for each character feature attribute and carrying out training, a step of inputting the HOG feature into a trained convolution neural network model, and carrying out sorting classification on each character feature . The method has the advantages that the method of the convolution neural network is employed to reflect a recognition rate well, the HOG feature is extracted, thus the amount of calculation is reduced, the speed is improved, the constructed convolution neural network has a certain depth, at the same time combined with a support vector machine, the classification is carried out for multiple times, and the recognition efficiency and accuracy are improved greatly.