1. A facial recognition system comprising: a station including at least one video camera for capturing a series of video frames of an individual face; and a face image processing server for generating a series of two-dimensional models of the individual face at various angles, each model based upon one of the series of video frames, combining the series of two-dimensional models of the individual face with a projecting matrix to create a three-dimensional model of the individual face; rotating the three-dimensional model to a reference frame that corresponds to a frontal view of the individual face, generating a two-dimensional mean reference map by projecting from the rotated three-dimensional model, the mean reference map made up of a series of n facial reference points, where n is an integer greater than one, accessing a facial database to compare the mean reference map to a series of previously-stored reference maps, each of the previously-stored reference maps including a set of previously-stored reference points, and identifying as a match an individual whose previously-stored reference map most closely matches the mean reference map.