1. A gesture recognition apparatus that performs gesture recognition processing of recognizing a gesture from action of a recognition object taken in a moving image, the gesture recognition apparatus comprising: a specific subject detecting unit for detecting a specific subject having a specific feature from the moving image; a moving speed computing unit for computing a moving speed per unit time of the specific subject; a moving pattern extracting unit for extracting a moving pattern of the specific subject; and an input instruction discriminating unit for discriminating movement of the specific subject as an instruction input to the gesture recognition apparatus when the moving speed and the moving pattern satisfy predetermined conditions.