Papers for February 6 include

J. F. Blinn, Jim Blinn's Corner: Compositing, Part 1: Theory, IEEE Computer Graphics and Application, 14(5), Sept. 1994, pp 83-87.

D. Zonker, D.M. Werner, B. Curles and D.H. Salesin Environment Matting and Compositing , SIGGRAPH 1999, pp. 205-214.
 
 Environment matting extensions: towards higher accuracy and real-time capture Yung-Yu Chuang, Douglas E. Zongker, Joel Hindorff, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin, Richard Szeliski , SIGGRPAPH 2000, pp. 121 - 130
 
Video matting of complex scenes Yung-Yu Chuang, Aseem Agarwala, Brian Curless, David H. Salesin, Richard Szeliski

M. Koudelka, S. Magda, P. Belhumeur, D. Kriegman, “Image-based Modeling and Rendering of Surfaces with Arbitrary BRDFs,” IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001, pp.568-575 (primarily Section 3.3)