Due to the influence of lighting conditions, shooting angles, transmission equipments and the surrounding environments, target objects in criminal investigation video images often have low-resolution, which are difficult to recognize. In order to improve the recognition rate of low-resolution images, on the basis of the classic LeNet-5 recognition network, a low-resolution image recognition algorithm based on adversarial edge learning was proposed. Firstly, the adversarial edge learning network was used to generate the fantasy edge of low-resolution image, which is similar to the edge of high-resolution image. Secondly, the edge information of this low-resolution image was fused into the recognition network as prior information for the recognition of the low-resolution image. Experiments were performed on three datasets:MNIST, EMNIST and Fashion-mnist. The results show that fusing the fantasy edge of low-resolution image into the recognition network can effectively increase the recognition rate of low-resolution images.