Current methods of human body movement recognition neglect the depth denoising and edge restoration of movement image, which leads to great error in athletes’ wrong movement recognition and poor application intelligence. Therefore, an intelligent recognition method based on image vision for sports athletes’ wrong actions is proposed. The basic principle, structure, and 3D application of computer image vision technology are defined. Capturing the human body image and point cloud data, the three-dimensional dynamic model of sports athletes action is constructed. The color camera including CCD sensor and CMOS sensor is selected to collect the wrong movement image of athlete and provide image data for the recognition of wrong movement. Wavelet transform coefficient and quantization matrix threshold are introduced to denoise the wrong motion images of athletes. Based on this, the feature of sports athlete’s motion contour image is extracted in spatial frequency domain, and the edge of the image is further recovered by Canny operator. Experimental results show that the proposed method can accurately identify the wrong movements of athletes, and there is no redundancy in the recognition results. Image denoising effect is good and less time-consuming and can provide a reliable basis for related fields.