Face identification method and system

The embodiment of the invention discloses a face identification method and a face identification system, which relate to the technical fields of biological characteristic identification and wireless transmission and have the advantages of effectively guaranteeing the real-time of face video acquisition and effectively reducing the problems of wiring, installation and maintenance caused by a wire data connecting mode. The face identification method comprises the following steps of: establishing 3G video communication connection with a front-end face acquisition terminal; receiving the face video of the front-end face acquisition terminal in real time through a 3G wireless network; and identifying the received face video. The face identification system comprises the front-end face acquisition terminal (101), a rear-end video receiving server (102) and a rear-end face identification server (103), wherein the rear-end face identification server (103) is connected with the rear-end video receiving server (102). The embodiment of the invention is mainly applied to face identification.