选取论文的原则：

（1）期刊论文，主要来源于以下期刊：TPAMI，IJCV，TIP，CVIU，IVC，MVA，PR，JMIV，IJPRAI…

（2）发表在2000年以后

（3）SCI检索次数大于1000，来源于Web of Science数据库，2012年12月初的检索结果

Top 20 榜单如下：  

[1] D. G. Lowe, “Distinctive image features from scale-invariant keypoints,” International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 91-110, Nov, 2004. (Cited=5663)

[2] J. B. Shi, and J. Malik, “Normalized cuts and image segmentation,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 888-905, Aug, 2000. (Cited=2165)

[3] T. F. Chan, and L. A. Vese, “Active contours without edges,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 266-277, Feb, 2001. (Cited=2153)

[4] D. Comaniciu, and P. Meer, “Mean shift: A robust approach toward feature space analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 603-619, May, 2002. (Cited=1910)

[5] Z. Wang, A. C. Bovik, H. R. Sheikh, and E. P. Simoncelli, “Image quality assessment: From error visibility to structural similarity,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 600-612, Apr, 2004. (Cited=1879)

[6] A. W. M. Smeulders, M. Worring, S. Santini, A. Gupta, and R. Jain, “Content-based image retrieval at the end of the early years,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 1349-1380, Dec, 2000. (Cited=1697)

[7] P. Viola, and M. J. Jones, “Robust real-time face detection,” International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 137-154, May, 2004. (Cited=1634)

[8] A. K. Jain, R. P. W. Duin, and J. C. Mao, “Statistical pattern recognition: A review,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 4-37, Jan, 2000. (Cited=1546)

[9] Z. Y. Zhang, “A flexible new technique for camera calibration,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, no. 11, pp. 1330-1334, Nov, 2000. (Cited=1516)

[10] B. Zitova, and J. Flusser, “Image registration methods: a survey,” Image and Vision Computing, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 977-1000, Oct, 2003. (Cited=1422)

[11] S. Belongie, J. Malik, and J. Puzicha, “Shape matching and object recognition using shape contexts,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 509-522, Apr, 2002. (Cited=1321)

[12] P. J. Phillips, H. Moon, S. A. Rizvi, and P. J. Rauss, “The FERET evaluation methodology for face-recognition algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 1090-1104, Oct, 2000. (Cited=1298)

[13] Y. Boykov, O. Veksler, and R. Zabih, “Fast approximate energy minimization via graph cuts,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 1222-1239, Nov, 2001. (Cited=1197)

[14] D. Scharstein, and R. Szeliski, “A taxonomy and evaluation of dense two-frame stereo correspondence algorithms,” International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 47, no. 1-3, pp. 7-42, Apr-Jun, 2002. (Cited=1174)

[15] K. Mikolajczyk, and C. Schmid, “A performance evaluation of local descriptors,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 1615-1630, Oct, 2005. (Cited=1166)

[16] D. Comaniciu, V. Ramesh, and P. Meer, “Kernel-based object tracking,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 564-577, May, 2003. (Cited=1109)

[17] T. Ojala, M. Pietikainen, and T. Maenpaa, “Multiresolution gray-scale and rotation invariant texture classification with local binary patterns,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 971-987, Jul, 2002. (Cited=1076)

[18] C. Stauffer, and W. E. L. Grimson, “Learning patterns of activity using real-time tracking,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 747-757, Aug, 2000. (Cited=1070)

[19] M. H. Yang, D. J. Kriegman, and N. Ahuja, “Detecting faces in images: A survey,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 34-58, Jan, 2002. (Cited=1032)

[20] T. F. Cootes, G. J. Edwards, and C. J. Taylor, “Active appearance models,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 681-685, Jun, 2001. (Cited=989)

补充2篇TPAMI，山老师推荐的，南理工杨健老师的2DPCA和浙大何晓飞老师的LPP。

[1] J. Yang, D. Zhang, A. Frangi, and J. Yang, “Two-dimensional PCA: a new approach to appearance-based face representation and recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 131-137, Jan, 2004. (Cited=625)

[2] X. He, S. Yan, Y. Hu, P. Niyogi, and H. Zhang, “Face recognition using Laplacianfaces,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 328-340, Mar, 2005. (Cited=724)

简单小结：

3篇IJCV，14篇TPAMI，2篇TIP，1篇IVC倒是有些意外，不过是综述性质的文章，也是情理之中。

欢迎各位大牛对每篇文章进行点评。