William T. Freeman
William T. Freeman researches computer vision and computational photography. His research includes steerable filters, motion magnification and belief propagation in networks with loops. Freeman held an associate department leadership role in MIT EECS from 2011 to 2014 and a management role at Google Research from 2015. He received the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award in 2019. His research includes computational photography, mid-level vision, colour constancy and motion magnification. He shared the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Physics for his consulting role with the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration. The collaboration reconstructed the first image of a black hole.
- Works
- 392
- Citations
- 74,701
- h-index
- 114
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2011–2015
MIT and Google research roles
Freeman held an associate department leadership role in MIT EECS from 2011 to 2014 and a management role at Google Research from 2015.
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2019
Computer-vision recognition
He received the PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award in 2019. His research covers computational photography, mid-level vision, colour constancy and motion magnification.
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2020
A shared black-hole imaging contribution
He shared the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Physics for his consulting role with the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration. The collaboration reconstructed the first image of a black hole.
Sources and credits
Photo: Justin Knight. License: Not stated by source. Source: billf.mit.edu. Cropped to a square and resized. Ask us to remove or replace this photo.