1. A face recognition apparatus, comprising: a face localizer extracting a predetermined number of feature points from a facial region extracted from an input image; a Gabor filter unit applying a set of Gabor filters with a plurality of orientations and frequencies to each of the facial feature points in order to obtain filter responses and generates a one-dimensional (1-D) vectors consisting of the filter responses; a training data set storage storing the 1-D vectors when the gaber-filtered 1-D vectors are obtained from a training image; and a binary classifier generating a binary determination criterion using the stored 1-D vectors, applying the binary determination criterion to the 1-D vectors when the gaber-filtered 1-D vectors are obtained from an image to be recognized and determining the identity of the image to be recognized.