The invention provides a face identification method applied to an adaptive drive seat; the method comprises the following steps: loading a
face identity characteristic head portrait
database; building a face identification model, and training a loaded face identification
database; obtaining a
video image from a camera; using a
cascade classifier to detect whether the
video image contains face characteristic information or not; if yes, extracting the face portion, and forming a face image; carrying out dimension normalization for the extracted characteristic head portrait, and carrying out
histogram equalization treatment; using two dimension discrete rapid
Fourier transform to convert the face image from a space domain to a
frequency domain, and extracting characteristics; comparing the extracted characteristics in the face identification
database, if the similarity is higher than a preset threshold, a predicted ID
label is outputted so as to confirm the passenger ID, thus starting the adaptive drive seat; asking to input the
face identity if the similarity is smaller than the preset threshold. The face identification method is applied to an unmanned vehicle auxiliary driving
system, and matched with the adaptive drive seat, thus fast and accurately carrying out face identification with high efficiency.