the computer vision canon

My colleague Michael Dixon and I have recently been wishing for a list of papers that everyone in the computer vision field should read and understand. Any good textbook on computer vision contains a list of important books, but I am lazy. I want a list on the web.

I think I have found the beginnings of such a list on Wikipedia as part of the Science Pearls project. In my opinion, the list of important papers in computer vision is too short—it only contains five papers—but it is a start.