Our paper describing the CAS-PEAL face database and its evaluation has been published in IEEE Trans. on System, Man, and Cybernetics-Part A. as follows:
Wen Gao, Bo Cao, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Chen, Delong Zhou, Xiaohua Zhang, Debin Zhao. The CAS-PEAL Large-Scale Chinese Face Database and Baseline Evaluations. IEEE Trans. on System Man, and Cybernetics (Part A) , vol.38, no.1, pp149-161, 2008.1
The paper contains:

• detailed description of the CAS-PEAL face database

• the content of the released version CAS-PEAL-R1

• baseline evaluation results on the CAS-PEAL-R1

Release agreement for CAS-PEAL-R1 face database

• Potential users of the database are required to sign this document and fax it to us.

We have also published some papers on face recognition in recent years, some of which contain more results on this database. Please refer to our homepage for more information by the link Face Recognition Group in JDL@ICT@CAS