Aspects of the disclosure can provide a face recognition method of increased robustness. The face recognition method can include receiving a target face image, initializing a registration and a block analysis of the target face image identifying one or more portions of the target face image for face recognition, informing a user of the registration and the block analysis, receiving one or more instructions from the user for operating on the registration and the block analysis, and identifying the target face image from a plurality of face images based on the registration and the block analysis of the target face image when the registration and the block analysis are approved by the user.