Abstract: In view of problem of cheating when mine personnel goes downhole, a mine personnel management system based on face recognition technology was designed. When a person goes into mine, the system collects his facial image which is compared and checked with stored template image. If passing the check, the person is approved to go into mine, conversely, failed to go. The experiment result shows that the system has quick recognition speed, high accuracy and solves the problem of cheating for mine personnel downhole.