The following demo appears to work now. roslaunch stretch_deep_perception stretch_detect_faces.launch One key change was to make sure to use a Python 3 version of OpenCV (import cv2) with the Inference Engine. Otherwise, you get errors like the following: self.head_pose_model = cv2.dnn.readNet(head_pose_weights_filename, head_pose_config_filename) cv2.error: OpenCV(4.2.0) ../modules/dnn/src/dnn.cpp:3298: error: (-2:Unspecified error) Build OpenCV with Inference Engine to enable loading models from Model Optimizer. in function 'readFromModelOptimizer' My installation had two different pip versions of OpenCV and an apt version of OpenCV, which created problems. The last change I made was to fix frame_id by remove the initial slash.pull/24/head