The embodiment of the invention provides a face recognition method, a device and equipment. The method comprises the following steps: the first face image in the first buffer being subjected to imageformat conversion processing, and the first face image after the image format conversion processing being stored in the second buffer; Performing a face information extraction process on the second face image in the second buffer, and storing the first face information obtained by the face information extraction process to the third buffer, wherein the first face information comprises a matting image corresponding to the second face image and a quality value of the matting image; performing face recognition processing on the matting image having the highest quality value among the at least onehuman face information according to the at least one human face information in the third buffer, wherein, image format conversion processing, face information extraction processing and face recognition processing are executed in parallel. The method, device and equipment are used to widen the application range of face recognition.