THIS PROJECT IS DEPRECATED IN FAVOUR OF GAZR, A MUCH BETTER FACE TRACKER
(Yet Another) fast face tracker/face recognizer for ROS based on OpenCV. Contrary to other face detection nodes (like face_detector), it relies only on monocular vision. This is more prone to false positive, but does not require a RGBD camera.
It features Haar-based face detection (stock OpenCV), face tracking based on optical flow (idea borrowed from the pi_face_tracker and face recognition (as demonstrated in the book Mastering OpenCV).
So, nothing new, but several good algorithm in one lightweight package.