1. A system for compressing data for video conferencing, comprising: a general purpose computing device; and a computer program comprising program modules executable by the computing device, wherein the computing device is directed by the program modules of the computer program to, capture a sequence of images some containing a person's face; locate the person's face in each of the images in the sequence that contain a face; select some of the images that contain a face; and transmit only the face region including eyes of the selected images.