A gesture recognition apparatus (1, 1a) for recognizing a gesture of a hand of a user from a moving image in which action of the hand of the user is photographed, comprising: a face detector configured to detect a face of the user; a shape identification part configured to identify whether the hand is a right hand or a left hand; a performer specification part configured to specify a person, who is closest to the identified hand and whose face is located on a right side of the identified hand, as a performer of the gesture when the identified hand is the right hand, and specify a person, who is closest to the identified hand and whose face is located on a left side of the identified hand, as the performer of the gesture when the identified hand is the left hand; a storage part configured to store an operator list; a gesture-processing table for each operator listed in the operator list; and feature quantities of each face of each operator listed in the operator list, the gesture-processing table indicates a correspondence relationship between a gesture recognized by the apparatus for each operator listed in the operator list and a performed processing content corresponding to the recognized gesture; a face authentication part configured to authenticate the face of the performer by determining a degree of similarity between a feature quantity of the face of the performer and a feature quantity of each face of each operator listed in the operator list; and a processing performing part configured to specify the performer as one of the operators in the list based on highest degree of similarity between the feature quantity of the face of the performer and the feature quantity of the face of each operator in the list; and perform the performed processing content corresponding to the recognized gesture for the operator specified by the processing performing part by referring to the correspondence relationship in the gesture-processing table for the specified operator. a face detector configured to detect a face of the user; a shape identification part configured to identify whether the hand is a right hand or a left hand; a performer specification part configured to specify a person, who is closest to the identified hand and whose face is located on a right side of the identified hand, as a performer of the gesture when the identified hand is the right hand, and specify a person, who is closest to the identified hand and whose face is located on a left side of the identified hand, as the performer of the gesture when the identified hand is the left hand; a storage part configured to store an operator list; a gesture-processing table for each operator listed in the operator list; and feature quantities of each face of each operator listed in the operator list, the gesture-processing table indicates a correspondence relationship between a gesture recognized by the apparatus for each operator listed in the operator list and a performed processing content corresponding to the recognized gesture; an operator list; a gesture-processing table for each operator listed in the operator list; and feature quantities of each face of each operator listed in the operator list, the gesture-processing table indicates a correspondence relationship between a gesture recognized by the apparatus for each operator listed in the operator list and a performed processing content corresponding to the recognized gesture; a face authentication part configured to authenticate the face of the performer by determining a degree of similarity between a feature quantity of the face of the performer and a feature quantity of each face of each operator listed in the operator list; and a processing performing part configured to specify the performer as one of the operators in the list based on highest degree of similarity between the feature quantity of the face of the performer and the feature quantity of the face of each operator in the list; and perform the performed processing content corresponding to the recognized gesture for the operator specified by the processing performing part by referring to the correspondence relationship in the gesture-processing table for the specified operator. specify the performer as one of the operators in the list based on highest degree of similarity between the feature quantity of the face of the performer and the feature quantity of the face of each operator in the list; and perform the performed processing content corresponding to the recognized gesture for the operator specified by the processing performing part by referring to the correspondence relationship in the gesture-processing table for the specified operator.