Embodiments of the invention disclose a face detection method and apparatus, and terminal equipment, and are applied to the technical field of information processing. The face detection apparatus performs feature sampling according to feature information of an image in a face candidate frame of a to-be-processed picture and obtains a plurality of pieces of sampling feature information, then a detection score is obtained according to a preset calculation function and the plurality of pieces of sampling feature information, and finally, the image in the face candidate frame is classified according to the detection score, namely, a classification result whether the image in the face candidate frame is a face can be obtained. Therefore, the plurality of pieces of sampling feature information can be obtained through feature sampling, features of the image in the face candidate frame are selectively expressed, and the finally obtained classification result is accurate; and the detection score of the image in the face candidate frame is obtained through the plurality of pieces of sampling feature information, and the plurality of pieces of sampling feature information obtained through anyfeature sampling mode can have the same detection scores so that the precision of the finally obtained classification result is improved.