Pixel-based processing
G. Borgefors. Distance transformations in digital images. CVGIP, 34:344--371, 1986. (Chamfer distance)
Filtering
S. G. Mallat, A theory for multiresolution signal decomposition: The wavelet representation, PAMI, 11(7):674-693, July 1989. (wavelets)
Daubechies
Edges
F. Attneave, Some informational aspects of visual perception, Psychological Review, 61(3), 1954
Marr and Hildreth
J. Canny, A computational approach to edge detection, PAMI, 8(6):679-698, 1986
Segmentation
J. Shi and J. Malik, Normalized cuts and image segmentation, PAMI, 22(8), August 2000
S. Ayer and H. S. Sawhney, Layered Representation of Motion Video using Robust Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Mixture Models and MDL Encoding, ICCV 1995
M. A. Fischler and and R. C. Bolles, Random sample consensus: A paradigm for model fitting with applications to image analysis and automated cartography, Communications of the ACM, 24(6), June 1981. (RANSAC)
J. Y. A. Wang and E. H. Adelson, Representing moving images with layers, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, 3(5), Sept. 1994.
Texture
Max Wertheimer,
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Shape
M. Kass, A. Witkin, and D. Terzopoulos, Snakes: Active contour models, IJCV 1988
A. A. Amini, T. E. Weymouth, and R. C. Jain, Using dynamic programming for solving variational problems in vision, PAMI 12(9), 1990
D. Mumford and J. Shah, Boundary Detection by Minimizing Functionals, CVPR 1985
N. Paragios and R. Deriche, Geodesic active contours and level sets for the detection and tracking of moving objects, PAMI, 22(3):266-280, 2000
Object Detection
M. Turk, A. Pentland, Eigenfaces for Recognition, Journal of Cognitive Neurosicence, 3(1):71-86, 1991.
H. A. Rowley, S. Baluja, and T. Kanade, Neural network-based face detection, PAMI, 20(1), January 1998
P. Viola and M. J. Jones, Robust Real-Time Face Detection, International Journal of Computer Vision, 57(2):137–154, 2004
3D
H. C. Longuet-Higgins, A computer algorithm for reconstructing a scene from two projections, Nature, vol. 293, pp. 133-135, 1981.
R. I. Hartley, In defense of the eight-point algorithm, PAMI, 19(6): 580-593, 1997
C. Tomasi and T. Kanade, Shape and motion from image streams under orthography: a factorization method, International Journal of Computer Vision, 9(2):137–154, 1992
Features
Harris and Stephens, A combined corner and edge detector, Proceedings of the 4th Alvey Vision Conference, 1988
C. Schmid, R. Mohr, and C. Bauckhage, Evaluation of Interest Point Detectors, IJCV, 37(2), 2000
D. Lowe, Distinctive Image Features from Scale-Invariant Keypoints, IJCV, 60(2), 2004
Optical flow
Horn and Schunck, Determining optical flow, Artificial Intelligence, 17, pp. 185-203, 1981
Tracking
B. D. Lucas and T. Kanade, An iterative image registration technique with an application to stereo vision, IJCAI 1981
J. Shi and C. Tomasi, Good features to track, CVPR 1994
M. Isard and A. Blake, CONDENSATION—Conditional Density Propagation for Visual Tracking, IJCV, 29(1), 1998
D. Comaniciu, V. Ramesh, and P. Meer, Kernel-based object tracking, PAMI, 25(5), May 2003
T.-J. Cham and J. M. Rehg, A multiple hypothesis approach to figure tracking, CVPR 1999.
Calibration
R. Tsai, A versatile camera calibration technique for high-accuracy 3D machine vision metrology using off-the-shelf TV cameras and lenses, IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, RA-3(4):323-344, 1987
Z. Zhang. A flexible new technique for camera calibration. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 22(11):1330-1334, 2000.
Energy minimization
Y. Boykov, O. Veksler, and R. Zabih, Fast Approximate Energy Minimization via Graph Cuts, PAMI, 23(11), Nov. 2001.
S. Geman and D. Geman, Stochastic relaxation, Gibbs distributions, and the Bayesian restoration of images, PAMI 6(6), Nov. 1984