The invention provides embedded face recognition tracking device and method, belonging to the technical field of face recognition tracking. The embedded face recognition tracking device is composed ofa power module, an embedded processing module and a camera interface module, wherein the output terminal of the power module is connected with and supplies power to the embedded processing module andthe camera interface module respectively; and the embedded processing module comprises a storage module, a first partitioning module, a detection module, a second partitioning module and a recognition module. Based on research and development in an embedded environment, a control algorithm is realized through software programming, only procedure codes need to be modified when the algorithm needsto be modified, and a hardware circuit does not need to be modified, so that flexibility is high, once an algorithm procedure is fixed in a microprocessor, and algorithm structure and performance cannot be changed; meanwhile, a target detection, recognition and tracking algorithm can be conveniently realized in the microprocessor, so that system reliability is greatly improved.