The invention provides a method and a system for increasing photo return speeds. The method includes steps of receiving human face information uploaded by mobile terminals; recognizing human faces in human face images to obtain human face groups comprising similar human faces; respectively matching the human faces in the various human face groups with figures which are preliminarily labeled in friend photo albums, and judging whether the human faces in the various human face groups are successfully matched with the figures in the friend photo albums or not; feeding matching results to the mobile terminals if the human faces in the human face groups are successfully matched with the figures in the friend photo albums. The human face information contains the human face images. The method and the system for increasing the photo return speeds in an embodiment of the invention have the advantages that the photo return speeds can be greatly increased by the aid of the method and the system, and the speeds and the efficiency can be particularly effectively guaranteed when large quantities of photos are processed.