The invention discloses a method for conducting real-time tracking on faces by a monocular camera. The method comprises the steps that firstly, the camera is opened so as to search for whether the faces exist around the camera or not, images collected by the camera are transmitted to an image processor, the image processor calls an image processing program to conduct image compression, three AdaBoost cascade connection strong classifiers based on Haar characteristics are loaded on the image processing program, skin color detection is carried out on all the compressed images, a detected window is used for detecting the faces with multiple angles through the three AdaBoost cascade connection strong classifiers, after the faces are detected, real-time tracking is carried out on face targets, the difference between the central point coordinates of a face target area and the central point coordinates of the whole images is compared, the camera is adjusted to enable the central point coordinates of the face images to be approximately aligned with central point coordinates of the images, and real-time tracking on the faces is achieved. The method has the advantages that the tracking method is simple, the calculated amount is small in the tracking process, the hardware structure is simple, and real-time tracking of the face targets can be well achieved.