A gesture control method comprises: acquiring an image; performing a gesture detection on the image to recognize a gesture from the image; determining, if no gesture is recognized from the image, whether a time interval from a last gesture detection, in which a gesture was recognized, to the gesture detection is less than a preset time period; tracking, if the time interval is less than the preset time period, the gesture in the image based on a comparative gesture which is a gesture recognized last time or tracked last time; and updating the comparative gesture with a currently recognized gesture or a currently tracked gesture. A gesture control method is provided that comprises: identifying an image acquisition device for acquiring image, to determine whether the image acquisition device is a depth-of-field image acquisition device, and performing gesture control based on the identification.