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William T. Freeman

William T. Freeman

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Computer Science
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
133
Citations
100975
World Ranking
91
National Ranking
56

William T. Freeman publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William T. Freeman sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 388 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

William T. Freeman D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William T. Freeman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 133 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to computer vision and machine learning, especially the development of steerable filters, belief propagation, and motion re-rendering.
  • 2016 - ACM Fellow For contributions to low-level computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics.

Overview

William T. Freeman is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a significant research footprint in the fields of Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans various subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, and Computational Mechanics.

Their scholarly output covers a broad array of topics such as Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Advanced Vision and Imaging, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques, 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis, and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research.

Freeman's publication record includes papers in notable venues with repeated contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics
  • 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

Among their recent papers are:

  • First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. Testing the Black Hole Metric, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Testing Astrophysical Models of the Galactic Center Black Hole, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VII. Polarization of the Ring, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Imaging of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Frequent co-authors in their research include Katherine L. Bouman, Xiaopeng Cheng, G. Desvignes, Kazunori Akiyama, and A. Alberdi. This collaborative network reflects a multidisciplinary engagement with topics at the intersection of imaging and astrophysics.

The scientist's contributions to the academic community have been recognized through honors such as the Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2020, specifically for work in computer vision and machine learning, including developments in steerable filters, belief propagation, and motion re-rendering. Additionally, they were named an ACM Fellow in 2016 for contributions to low-level computer vision, machine learning, and computer graphics.

Best Publications

  • LabelMe: A Database and Web-Based Tool for Image Annotation

    Bryan C. Russell;Antonio Torralba;Kevin P. Murphy;William T. Freeman

  • The design and use of steerable filters

    W.T. Freeman;E.H. Adelson

  • Example-based super-resolution

    W.T. Freeman;T.R. Jones;E.C. Pasztor

  • Image quilting for texture synthesis and transfer

    Alexei A. Efros;William T. Freeman

  • Removing camera shake from a single photograph

    Rob Fergus;Barun Singh;Aaron Hertzmann;Sam T. Roweis

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • 80 Million Tiny Images: A Large Data Set for Nonparametric Object and Scene Recognition

    A. Torralba;R. Fergus;W.T. Freeman

  • Learning Low-Level Vision

    William T. Freeman;Egon C. Pasztor;Owen T. Carmichael

  • Video Enhancement with Task-Oriented Flow

    Tianfan Xue;Baian Chen;Jiajun Wu;Donglai Wei

  • Shiftable multiscale transforms

    E.P. Simoncelli;W.T. Freeman;E.H. Adelson;D.J. Heeger

  • Understanding belief propagation and its generalizations

    Jonathan S. Yedidia;William T. Freeman;Yair Weiss

  • Constructing free-energy approximations and generalized belief propagation algorithms

    J.S. Yedidia;W.T. Freeman;Y. Weiss

  • Image and depth from a conventional camera with a coded aperture

    Anat Levin;Rob Fergus;Frédo Durand;William T. Freeman

  • Eulerian video magnification for revealing subtle changes in the world

    Hao-Yu Wu;Michael Rubinstein;Eugene Shih;John Guttag

  • Learning a Probabilistic Latent Space of Object Shapes via 3D Generative-Adversarial Modeling

    Jiajun Wu;Chengkai Zhang;Tianfan Xue;William T. Freeman

  • Discovering objects and their location in images

    J. Sivic;B.C. Russell;A.A. Efros;A. Zisserman

  • The steerable pyramid: a flexible architecture for multi-scale derivative computation

    E.P. Simoncelli;W.T. Freeman

  • Understanding and evaluating blind deconvolution algorithms

    Anat Levin;Yair Weiss;Fredo Durand;William T Freeman

  • Generalized Belief Propagation

    Jonathan S Yedidia;William T. Freeman;Yair Weiss

  • Hand gesture machine control system

    William T. Freeman;Craig D. Weissman

  • LabelMe: A Database and Web-based Tool for

    Bryan C. Russell;Antonio Torralba;Kevin P. Murphy;William T. Freeman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiajun Wu
Jiajun Wu Stanford University
Ce Liu
Ce Liu Microsoft (United States)
Anat Levin
Anat Levin Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Yair Weiss
Yair Weiss Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Erik B. Sudderth
Erik B. Sudderth University of California, Irvine

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