Abstract: A new kind of hybrid model based on Support Vector Machine（SVM） and Hidden Markov Model（HMM） is proposed and has been used in face recognition.The faces in the photos are first located.The independent features of the faces are then picked up and the hybrid model is used to recognize the faces.The experimental results based on ORL face database show that compares with other methods,such as pure SVM and pure HMM,the hybrid model has the best performance.