In this paper a completely automatic face recognition system is presented. The system is inspired by the elastic bunch graph method, but the ducial point localization is completely dieren t and does not require any operator intervention. Each ducial point is characterized applying a bank of lters which extracts the peculiar texture around it (jet). The performances of the steerable Gaussian rst derivatives basis lters are compared to the ones of the Gabor wavelet transform, showing similar results when images of faces in approximately the same pose are compared.