2005:

I recommend to use Google Scholar to research face detection publications. Just search for "face detection" and enjoy over 200.000 publication links! 

(Please note that I am in no way affiliated with Google - it's just a great way to find resources nowadays, and not everyone might know about the 'Google Scholar' feature)

2004:

• Recent Advances in Face Detection  

Some articles in 2002:

• Robust Face Detection at Video Frame Rate based on Edge Orientation Features
• Genetic Model Optimization for Hausdorff Distance-Based Face Localization  
• Rejection based classifier for face detection  
  There are also some more interesting documents like PowerPoint presentations about this topic at Dr. Michael Elad's Homepage

Some articles in 2000/2001:

• Face Detection: A Survey  
• A Fast and Accurate Face Detector Based on Neural Networks
• Face Detection and Precise Eyes Location
• Invariant Face Detection with Support Vector Machines
• Human Face Detection Using Geometric Triangle Relationship

General important publications:

• Facial feature finding bibliography

  This bibliography by Laurenz Wiskott contains references to algorithms for finding faces and facial features.

• Grundsaetzliche Untersuchung von Bildverarbeitungsalgorithmen zur Gesichtererkennung

  A very recent diploma thesis about general approaches of face recognition and detection. Unfortunately in german language only.

• Research papers from IEEE PAMI Part 1

  Neural Network based approach, using typical preprocessing and a huge amount of face/non-face training patterns.

• Research papers from IEEE PAMI Part 2

  Clustering based approach, again using a huge amount of face/non-face training patterns.

• Some older material from the CMU

  Neural Network based work.

• Another interesting page by H. W. Schneiderman, CMU
• Support vector machines based face detection

  SVMs for face detection.

• Eye finding via Face Detection from the MIT
• Detection Strategies for Face Recognition Using Learning and Evolution
• Face Recognition Bibliography

  A nice compilation of important literature for both recognition and detection by Peter J. Wahle.

The following section offers publications for free download. All papers presented here are either not available for download anywhere else, or are at least very hard to find. Everyone who wants to contribute to this collection can send the publications to my email address.

• Principal Components Analysis, Neural Networks and Estimation: an Application to Face Detection. R. Feraud, NATO ASI Series, Springer-Verlag, Face Recognition: From Theory to Applications, Vol 163, pages 424-432, 1998. zipped postscript
• Ensemble and Modular Approaches for Face Detection: a Comparison. R.Feraud and O. Bernier, Ensemble and Modular Approaches for Face Detection: a Comparison, Neural Information Processing System 10, pages 472-478, 1997. zipped postscript

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New books:

Dynamic Vision: From Images to Face Recognition.

Shaogang Gong, Stephen J McKenna and Alexandra Psarrou.

Describes computer vision and machine learning research in face recognition.
Includes chapters on focusing attention (using colour, motion, fusion),
face detection at frontal view,
face detection with large pose change
and face tracking.

 

How to search for new articles on finding faces? Well, here a few selected special search engines for scientific publications etc. are listed:

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• SPIE Society for Optical Engineering publications search
• USC Computer Vision Bibliography publications search
• Elsevier Computational Intelligence, Pattern Recognition publications search

The Face Detection Homepage. By Robert W. Frischholz