Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, Richard Szeliski, 2022 (Springer) - A widely-recognized textbook covering classical computer vision algorithms, including detailed discussions on color histograms, edge detection (e.g., Canny), and various hand-crafted image feature extraction methods.
ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey E. Hinton, 2012Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 25 (Curran Associates, Inc.)DOI: 10.55988/NIPS.2012.2155 - A seminal paper that introduced AlexNet, a deep convolutional neural network that significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in image classification on the ImageNet dataset, demonstrating the efficacy of learned features from deep networks.
ImageNet: A Large-Scale Hierarchical Image Database, Jia Deng, Wei Dong, Richard Socher, Li-Jia Li, Kai Li, and Li Fei-Fei, 2009IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009) (IEEE)DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2009.5206848 - This paper describes the ImageNet dataset, which has become a crucial benchmark for training and evaluating large-scale deep learning models, enabling the development of powerful pre-trained CNNs used as feature extractors.
Deep Learning, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville, 2016 (MIT Press) - A widely-cited textbook offering an in-depth theoretical and practical explanation of deep learning, including comprehensive chapters on convolutional networks, representation learning, and how deep models extract features.