Things I've Been Reading

Alpha Matting

WANG, J. AND COHEN, M. "Optimized Color Sampling for Robust Matting"

CHAUNG, Y., AGARWALA, A., CURLESS, B., SALESIN, D., AND SZELISKI, R. "Video Matting of Complex Scenes"

Image Morphing

BEIER, T. AND NEELY, S. "Feature Based Image Metamorphosis"

Image Retargeting/Resizing

AVIDAN, S., AND SHAMIR, A. "Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing" (pdf)

Saliency Maps

ITTI, L., KOCH, C., AND NEIBUR, E. "A model of saliency based visual attention for rapid scene analysis"

LIU, F., AND GLEICHER, M. "Region Enhanced Scale-Invariant Saliency Detection"

Feature Detection

VIOLA, P., AND JONES, M. "Rapid object detection using a boosted cascade of simple features"

Regional/Local Editing

PEREZ, P., GANGNET, M., AND BLAKE, A. "Poisson Image Editing"

Imaging Structures

ADELSON, E., ANDERSON, C., BERGEN, J., BURT, P., AND OGDEN, J. "Pyramid methods in image processing"

Pose Estimation

TAYLOR, C. "Reconstruction of articulated objects from point correspondences in a single uncalibrated image"

HUTTENLOCHER, D., AND ULLMAN, S. "Recognizing Solid Objects by Allignment with an Image"

And lot more.