Several totally-corrective boosting algorithms are designed specifically for face and pedestrian detection.
Related work:
√ C. Shen, P. Wang, S. Paisitkriangkrai, A. van den Hengel. Training Effective Node Classifiers for Cascade Classification. In: IJCV, 2013.
√ P. Wang, C. Shen, N. Barnes, H. Zheng. Fast and Robust Object Detection using Asymmetric Totally-Corrective Boosting. In: TNNLS, 2012.
√ C. Shen, P. Wang, H. Li. LACBoost and FisherBoost: Optimally Building Cascade Classifiers. In: ECCV, 2010.
√ P. Wang, C. Shen, N. Barnes, H. Zheng, Z. Ren. Asymmetric Totally-Corrective Boosting for Real-Time Object Detection. In: ACCV, 2010.