Like blt said, there's not a lot of original stuff going on here, but I think it nicely wraps features of other libs in a way that just hands it to developers in a nice little package. It also packages the xml feature file for facial detection. That's convenient. It's like an HTML5 Boilerplate for this specific application.

If OpenCV is CV for the average developer, then this is a taste of CV for anyone.

Five year olds could use this.

We've been doing this for years; it's built into many on-demand asset pipelines, like ImageResizer: http://imageresizing.net/plugins/faces

Wow, a typical bunk HN comment that adds nothing of substance.

yeah, it could do without the snark, but there is a point that this project doesn't really do anything other than wrap opencv with a short python script. There's nothing wrong with that, but I don't see why it's made it to the front page.