The invention discloses an ATM security
certificate and a pre-warning method based on face recognition. The invention introduces face recognition and
video detection into the applications of ATM and
bank card business for the first time, which can obviously improve the security of ATM financial
system, effectively reduce and overawe various ATM fraud and criminal activities. The complete
system operation process in the method of the invention is: firstly, registering the face information of a holder at a service window which arranges an
infrared face acquisition equipment or with the registration by the users themselves on ATM in
bank, and saving the encrypted face information to a
bank database and a bank card. Then, determining whether the ATM operator to be recognized is the holder of the bank card or not through verifying the user's identity by a face recognition engine; determining and recognizing whether existing behaviors that threaten ATM and the users though a
behavior monitoring engine; and determining whether to trigger corresponding pre-warning mechanism or not according to the recognition result. The invention can extend to the applications of bank book business,
public security monitoring and pursuing escaped criminals, etc.