A method of face recognition includes generating a recognition database for at least one identified face by obtaining multiple images for each identified face; selecting a subset of distinctive features for each identified face from a set of features, where each of the distinctive features in the subset have at least one calculated value representative of that distinctive feature of the identified face that exceeds a threshold level of distinction from at least one corresponding calculated value for a reference set of faces, and, for each identified face, recording in the recognition database the selected subset of distinctive features. To recognize an image of an unidentified face, a comparison metric is calculated for at least one identified face in the recognition database comparing at least a portion of the selected subset of distinctive features of that identified face with corresponding features for the unidentified face. The comparison metric for that identified face is used to determine if there is a correlation between the unidentified face and the identified face.