Infrared image has a lot of advantages, such as strong anti-interference, independence to visible light source, defendence from camouflage and defendence against cheat. These advantages help infrared image face recognition to a large extent to make up for the shortage of visible image face recognition. Now infrared image face recognition is an important direction in the field of face recognition. Based on the analysis of characteristics of infrared image, the properties of infrared image face recognition ware analyzed and a new infrared image statistical face recognition method was proposed in this paper. Experimental results show that the recognition method is workable and has good partition capability.