A good read on how to be a useful reviewer for conference/journal papers is "The Task of the Referee" by Alan Jay Smith. For those who have never reviewed papers before (and even those who have), I recommend taking a look through it.
Due Week 2:
D. Martin, C. Fowlkes, and J. Malik, "Learning to Detect Natural Image Boundaries Using Brightness and Texture", NIPS, 2002. [pdf]
J. Puzicha, T. Hofmann, and J. Buhmann, "Non-parametric Similarity Measures for
Unsupervised Texture Segmentation and Image Retrieval", CVPR, 1997. [pdf]
Due Week 3:
G. Borgefors, "Hierarchical Chamfer Matching: A Parametric Edge Matching Algorithm", PAMI, 1988. [pdf]
T. Sebastian, P. Klein, and B. Kimia, "Recognition of Shapes by Editing Shock Graphs", ICCV, 2001. [pdf]
- for more details see extended PAMI version: [pdf] (no review required)
Due Week 4:
Y. LeCun, B. Boser, J.S. Denker, D. Henderson, R.E. Howard, W. Hubbard, and L.D. Jackel, "Handwritten digit recognition with a back-propagation network", NIPS, 1989. [ps.gz]
- for more details: Y. LeCun, L. Bottou, Y. Bengio, and P. Haffner, "Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition", Proc. IEEE, 1998. [pdf] (no review required)
S. Belongie, J. Malik, J. Puzicha, "Matching Shapes", ICCV, 2001. [pdf]
- for more details: S. Belongie, J. Malik, J. Puzicha, "Shape Matching and Object Recognition using Shape Contexts", PAMI, 2002. [pdf] (no review required)
Due Week 5:
P. Viola and M. Jones, "Robust Real-time Object Detection", SCTV 2001 (at ICCV). [pdf]
H. Schneiderman and T. Kanade, "A statistical method for 3d object detection applied
to faces and cars", CVPR 2000. [pdf]
Due Week 6:
D. Lowe, "Distinctive image features from scale-invariant keypoints", IJCV, 60, 2, 2004. [pdf]
R. Fergus, P. Perona, and A. Zisserman, "Object Class Recognition by Unsupervised Scale-Invariant Learning", CVPR 2003. [pdf]
Due Week 7:
V. Blanz and T. Vetter, "Face Recognition Based on Fitting a 3D Morphable Model", PAMI, 25, 9, 2003. [pdf]
R. Gross, S. Baker, I. Matthews, and T. Kanade, "Face Recognition Across Pose and Illumination", Handbook of Face Recognition, 2004. [pdf] (Section 2)
Due Week 9:
S. Ioffe and D. Forsyth, "Finding People by Sampling", ICCV 1999. [pdf]
Yang Song, Luis Goncalves, Enrico Di Bernardo, Pietro Perona,
"Monocular Perception of Biological Motion - Detection and Labelling", ICCV 1999. [pdf]
G. Mori and J. Malik, "Estimating Human Body Configurations using Shape Context Matching", ECCV 2002. [pdf]
Due Week 10:
A.A. Efros, A.C. Berg, G. Mori and J. Malik, Recognizing Action
at A Distance, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2003. [pdf]
A. Bobick and J. Davis, The Representation and Recognition of Action Using Temporal Templates, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2001. [pdf]
H. Zhong, J. Shi and M. Visontai, Detecting Unusual Activity in Video, IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2004. [pdf]
Due Week 11:
Pinar Duygulu, Kobus Barnard, Nando de Freitas, and David Forsyth, "Object recognition as machine translation: Learning a lexicon for a fixed image vocabulary", ECCV 2002. [pdf]
Antonio Torralba, Kevin Murphy, William Freeman, Mark Rubin, "Context-based vision system for place and object recognition", ICCV 2003. [pdf]