By analyzing two significant facors,skin physical characteristics and system characteristics,which affect the multispectral face recognition,a novel Band-Adjusting HOSVD (BA-HOSVD) multispectral face recognition algorithm is proposed.The spectral factor is treated separately with the weighted fusion method,which retains more information of the spectrum.Simulation results show that BA-HOSVD can be applied in multispectral face recognition,and it has a better recognition result than the other methods which do not consider the band characteristics.