Summary: The goal of this paper is to presents Brief Description of literature on Image Based human and machine recognition of faces during 1987 to 2010. Machine recognition of faces has several applications. As one of the most successful applications of image analysis and understanding, face recognition has recently received significant attention, especially during the past several years. In addition, relevant topics such as Brief studies, system evaluation, and issues of illumination and pose variation are covered. In this paper numerous method which related to image based 3D face recognition are discussed.