For your own enrichment, you may be interested in reading some recent research papers from the field of computer vision. All of these are taken from the most recent conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2004 (CVPR ‘04), except noted otherwise. The links below are either links to the pdf version of the paper or to an overview page that contains supporting material as well as the pdf link.

1. The World in an Eye,
   K. Nishino and S.K. Nayar.
2. Jitter Camera: High Resolution Video from a Low Resolution Detector,
   M. Ben-Ezra, A. Zomet, and S.K. Nayar.
3. Using Plane+Parallax for Calibrating Dense Camera Arrays,
   V. Vaish, B. Wilburn, N. Joshi, and M. Levoy. Quicktime movie
4. NEW PAPER (Aug 30): What Is the Set of Images of an Object Under All Possible Illumination Conditions, P. Belhumeur and D. Kriegman, IJCV 98
   (link to earlier assigned paper on road following is here for those interested)
5. Video Google: A Text Retrieval Approach to Object Matching in Videos,
   Sivic, J. and Zisserman, A., ICCV '03.
6. Visual Odometry,
   D. Nister, O. Naroditsky, and J. Bergen.
7. Wide-baseline Stereo from Multiple Views: a Probabilistic Account,
   C. Strecha, R. Fransens, L. Van Gool.
8. Segmenting, Modeling, and Matching Video Clips Containing Multiple Moving Objects, F. Rothganger, S. Lazebnik, C. Schmid, and J. Ponce.
9. Real-Time Combined 2D+3D Active Appearance Models,
   J. Xiao, S. Baker, I. Matthews, and T. Kanade PDF
10. Bayesian video matting using learnt image priors,
    Apostoloff, N. E. and Fitzgibbon, A. W.
11. A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for EigenTracking,
    Z. Khan, T. Balch, and F. Dellaert.
12. Representation and Matching of Articulated Shapes,
    J. Zhang, R. Collins, and Y. Liu.
13. Tracking Loose-limbed People,
    Sigal, L., Bhatia S., Roth S., Black M. J., Isard M.
14. Robust Real-time Object Detection,
    P. Viola and M. Jones, ICCV 2001 Workshop