This document outlines the history of computer vision from the 1960s to present day through a graph-based structure. It covers early paradigms in areas like pattern recognition and image processing in the 1970s. Artificial intelligence approaches emerged in the 1970s including systems like SHRDLU. Vision research in the 1980s focused on areas like image understanding, expert systems, and reasoning. Robotics became an important application area from the 1990s onward, with a focus on learning and interaction. Current computer vision systems, libraries and toolboxes build upon these historical paradigms, systems and algorithms.