William T. Freeman
About William T. Freeman
Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT CSAIL, Research Scientist
- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Bio
SIGGRAPH 2025
William Freeman is the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of EECS at MIT and a member of CSAIL. Since 2015, he has also been a research manager at Google Research in Cambridge. His work spans mid-level vision, computational photography, and audio. He has received multiple outstanding paper and test-of-time awards in computer vision and machine learning. In 2020, he shared the Breakthrough Prize in Physics for his role in the Event Horizon Telescope project. A Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAI, he is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and received the 2019 PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award.
SIGGRAPH 1994
William Freeman is a research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories. Dr. Freeman’s research interests are computational vision, image processing, and electronic imaging. As part of his thesis work, he developed “steerable filters,” a class of oriented filters with wide application in image processing and computer vision. His current research involves hand gesture recognition by computer and Bayesian models of perception. His research at the Polaroid Corporation from 1981 to 1987 led to nine patents and a successful product, the Polaroid Palette film recorder. In 1987, Dr. Freeman was a Foreign Expert at the Taiyuan University of Technology, P. R. of China.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2003: Technical Papers
Conference Contributions
Other Information
Roles
- Awardee
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Panel Presenter
- Technical Paper Presenter
- Technical Papers Jury Member
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