The invention relates to an automatic teller 
machine based on face recognition on three sides. The automatic teller 
machine is characterized by comprising a main 
machine, a camera group, a semitransparent customer operating room, a large touch screen, a light adjusting device, a face recognition device, an identity 
card reader, an identity card double-sided scanning device, a second-generation identity 
card reader, a second-generation identity card double-sided scanning device, two 
USB (universal serial 
bus) digital 
certificate interface, an online 
verification citizen identity 
information device, a cleaning towel device and a remote background service 
processing center; the automatic teller machine photographs a picture of a customer to be respectively checked with the picture on the identity card read by the identity 
card reader and the picture of the identity card returned by the online 
verification citizen identity 
information system, and the service can be carried out when the picture is successfully checked; the identity card is withdrawn if the picture checking is failed, the cleaning towel device is powered on, the customer is reminded of removing a helmet, a gauze 
mask and spectacles and having normal 
facial expression so as to repeatedly check; when the picture is still failed in the second checking and the customer still applies to the service, the 
host machine calls the remote background service 
processing center to process.