This paper presents a method for recognizing human behavior in static images based on LLC and GIST features. The feature points in the image is densely located in sub-region of images and we extract SIFT feature from each sub-region. Then using the LLC method to encode the extracted dense SIFT features of each sub-region and each feature point descriptor is assigned to several nearest words, so that each descriptor can be expressed by the linear correlation coefficient of vocabulary. In order to increase the spatial information, we use the SPM model to divide the image into many blocks under different levels. We can get the pooled feature from each sub-region using the max pooling method. Then these pooled features from sub-region are concatenated and normalized as the final pooled features. In order to get GIST features, we divide the image into blocks and construct the Gabor filter group of 32 different scales and directions. Then each Gabor filter in the Gabor filter group does convolution operation with image blocks and we take the mean value of each blocks under each Gabor filter as the feature description. The features from each block under each Gabor filter are concatenated and normalized as the final GIST feature representation of the image. Then concatenating the final pooled features and the GIST features and take as the final feature representation. Finally, the intersection kernel function of SVM is used for classification. We performed experiments on several databases. By contrast, this algorithm has a good effect in accuracy and efficiency.