Abstract: A novel color recovering method for black-white facial image based on image warping and color-space transformation is presented.The basic idea of the method is referring a colorized facial image and then adding its tint into the black-white facial image.This method is simple to understand and can easily be implemented.Experimental results show that the method is very effective and can naturally and livelily realize color recovering of different black-white facial images including images of the males,the females,the elders,and the youngers.The facial details in the color recovered image obtained by this method is very realistic and convincing.