This paper aims to investigate a multi-pose face recognition system based on an effective design of classifier using SURF feature. In training phase, the proposed method utilizes SURF features to calculate similarity between two images from different poses of the same face. Face recognition model (GMM) is trained using the robust SURF features from different poses. In testing phase, feature vectors corresponding to the test images are input to all trained models for the decision of the recognized face. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate the comparative performance of the proposed method.