Face recognition has many important practical applications, like surveillance and access control. It is concerned with the problem of correctly identifying face images and assigning them to persons in a database. This paper proposes using SIFT features [4] for the recognition process. The new technique is compared with well-established face recognition algorithms, namely Eigenfaces [7] and Fisherfaces [6, 2]. The results show the superiority of the new method over these two methods, specially using smaller training sets.