An expression recognition method under a natural scene comprises: converting an input video into a video frame sequence in terms of a specified frame rate, and performing facial expression labeling on the video frame sequence to obtain a video frame labeled sequence; removing natural light impact, non-face areas, and head posture impact elimination on facial expression from the video frame labeled sequence to obtain an expression video frame sequence; augmenting the expression video frame sequence to obtain a video preprocessed frame sequence; from the video preprocessed frame sequence, extracting HOG features that characterize facial appearance and shape features, extracting second-order features that describe a face creasing degree, and extracting facial pixel-level deep neural network features by using a deep neural network; then, performing vector fusion on these three obtain facial feature fusion vectors for training; and inputting the facial feature fusion vectors into a support vector machine for expression classification.