An approach to automatically recognizing the movement of people at a pedestrian crossing presented in the article. This approach includes two main procedures, for each of which program code commands are given in the C# programming language using the EMGU computer vision library. In the first procedure, pedestrian detection is carried out using a combination of directional gradient histogram and support vector methods. The second procedure allows you to read frames from a video sequence and process them. This approach allows detecting the movements of people at a pedestrian crossing without using specialized neural networks. At the same time, the method proposed in the article demonstrated sufficient reliability of human movement recognition, which indicates its applicability in real conditions.