<p>Recognition of the face is a widely used method to detect human features. In various scenarios the face recognition speed becomes significant which necessitates to improve the critical delay of the architecture. In this paper, we propose Efficient FPGA architecture to extract image features using Local Binary pattern (LBP) for Face Recognition. The face image is converted into standard size (256 × 256) as pre-processing and the Gaussian filter is used to remove the high frequency components. These image is then applied to optimized LBP block to obtain the LBP features for both database sample and test sample are further compared to make the decision for face recognition. The proposed LBP architecture is designed using simple counter and comparators which leads to minimum complexity in turn improving the critical delay and hardware utilizations of the entire system. The simulation is performed for Olivetti Research Laboratory (ORL) dataset using MATLAB by showing False Acceptance Rate (FAR), False Rejection Rate (FRR) and Total Success Rate (TSR) values. The thresholding is performed based on Weighted Mean Square Difference and is varied for Total Success Rate (TSR) calculations tested for different combinations of Person in Database (PID) and Person Out of database (POD). Finally, the proposed architecture is synthesized on Spartan 6-xc651 × 4c-3csg432 Digilent FPGA board. It is observed that the recognition time of our architecture in hardware (FPGA) is 1.05 µS which is better compared to existing methods.</p>