In a multi-person pose recognition method, a to-be-recognized image is obtained, and a circuitous pyramid network is constructed. The circuitous network pyramid includes parallel phases, and each phase includes downsampling network layers, upsampling network layers, and a first residual connection layer to connect the downsampling and upsampling network layers. The phases are interconnected by a second residual connection layer. The circuitous pyramid network is traversed, by extracting a feature map for each phase, and the feature map of the last phase is determined to be the feature map of the to-be-recognized image. Multi-pose recognition is then performed on the to-be-recognized image according to the feature map to obtain a pose recognition result for the to-be-recognized image.