William T. Freeman is the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Freeman received his undergraduate degree in physics from Stanford University in 1979, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1992.
[4] Freeman worked at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs before joining the faculty at MIT in 2001, where he is currently[when?]
Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of electrical engineering and computer science.
He has also made research contributions on steerable filters and pyramids, orientation histograms, the generic viewpoint assumption, color constancy, computer vision for computer games, and belief propagation in networks with loops.