Computer vision


  • Describing visual scenes using transformed objects and parts
    E. Sudderth, A. Torralba, W. T. Freeman, and A. Willsky
    International Journal of Computer Vision, 77, May 2008

  • 80 million tiny images: a large dataset for non-parametric object and scene recognition
    A. Torralba, R. Fergus, and W. T. Freeman
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence., Volume 30 , Issue 11 (November 2008), Pages: 1958-1970

  • Object Recognition by Scene Alignment
    B. C. Russell, A. Torralba, C. Liu, R. Fergus, W. T. Freeman
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2007

  • Learning Compressed Sensing
    Yair Weiss, Hyun Sung Chang and William T. Freeman
    45th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2007

  • Unsupervised Discovery of Visual Object Class Hierarchies
    J. Sivic, B. C. Russell, A. Zisserman, W. T. Freeman, and A. A. Efros
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008

  • LabelMe: a Database and Web-based Tool for Image Annotation
    B. C. Russell, A. Torralba, K. P. Murphy, and W. T. Freeman
    International Journal of Computer Vision, 77(1-3):157-173, 2008

  • Automatic estimation and removal of noise from a single image
    C. Liu, R. Szeliski, S. B. Kang, C. L. Zitnick, and W. T. Freeman
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Vol 30, No. 2, pp. 299-314, Feb., 2008

  • The patch transform and its applications to image editing
    Taeg Sang Cho, Moshe Butman, Shai Avidan, William T. Freeman
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008

    Best Poster Award, CVPR 2008


  • Human-assisted motion annotation
    C. Liu, W. T. Freeman, E. H. Adelson and Y. Weiss
    IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2008

  • Understanding camera trade-offs through a Bayesian analysis of light field projections
    A. Levin, W. T. Freeman, and F. Durand
    European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2008

  • SIFT Flow: Dense Correspondence across Different Scenes
    C. Liu, J. Yuen, A. Torralba, J. Sivic, W. T. Freeman
    European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2008

  • Creating and exploring a large photorealistic virtual space
    J. Sivic, B. Kaneva, A. Torralba, S. Avidan and W. T. Freeman
    First IEEE Workshop on Internet Vision, associated with CVPR 2008

  • Understanding and evaluating blind deconvolution algorithms
    A. Levin, Y. Weiss, F. Durand, and W. T. Freeman
    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2009

    Best paper award runner up


  • The Patch Transform
    T. S. Cho, S. Avidan, and W. T. Freeman
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), vol. 32, issue 8, pages 1489 – 1501, August, 2010

  • Matching and Predicting Street Level Images
    Biliana Kaneva, Josef Sivic, Antonio Torralba, Shai Avidan and William T. Freeman
    Workshop for Vision on Cognitive Tasks, European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2010

  • Ground-truth dataset and baseline evaluations for intrinsic image algorithms
    R. Grosse, M.K. Johnson, E.H. Adelson, and W.T. Freeman
    International Conference on Computer Vision, 2009

  • Informative Sensing of Natural Images
    Hyun Sung Chang, Yair Weiss, William T. Freeman
    IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing, Egypt, Nov. 2009

  • Nonparametric Bayesian Texture Learning and Synthesis
    Long Zhu, Yuanhao Chen, William Freeman, Antonio Torralba
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2009

  • Segmenting Scenes by Matching Image Composites
    B. C. Russell, A. A. Efros, J. Sivic, W. T. Freeman, and A. Zisserman
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2009

  • A Content-Aware Image Prior
    T. S. Cho, N. Joshi, C. L. Zitnick, S. B. Kang, R. Szeliski and W. T. Freeman
    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2010

  • A Probabilistic Image Jigsaw Puzzle Solver
    T. S. Cho, S. Avidan and W. T. Freeman
    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2010

  • Part and Appearance Sharing: Recursive Compositional Models for Multi-View Multi-Object Detection
    L. Zhu, Y. Chen, A. Torralba, W. T. Freeman, and A. Yuille
    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2010

  • Latent Hierarchical Structural Learning for Object Detection
    L. Zhu, Y. Chen, A. Torralba, A. Yuille and W. T. Freeman
    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2010

  • Analyzing Spatially-varying Blur
    A. Chakrabarti, Todd Zickler and William T. Freeman
    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2010

  • Motion blur removal with orthogonal parabolic exposures
    Taeg Sang Cho, Anat Levin, Fredo Durand, and William T. Freeman
    IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computational Photography (ICCP), 2010

  • Using the Forest to See the Trees: Exploiting Context for Visual Object Detection and Localization
    Antonio Torralba, Kevin Murphy and William T. Freeman
    Communications of the ACM, March 2010, Vol. 53, No. 3

  • Infinite Images: Creating and Exploring a Large Photorealistic Virtual Space
    Biliana Kaneva, Josef Sivic, Antonio Torralba, Shai Avidan and William T. Freeman
    Proceedings of the IEEE, volume 98, issue 8, pages 1391 – 1407, 2010

  • Where computer vision needs help from computer science
    W. T. Freeman
    ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, January, 2011

  • Motion Denoising with Application to Time-lapse Photography
    Michael Rubinstein, Ce Liu, Peter Sand, Fredo Durand, William Freeman
    Proc. 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2011

  • Blur Kernel Estimation Using the Radon Transform
    Taeg Sang Cho, Sylvain Paris, William Freeman, Berthold Horn
    Proc. 23rd IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2011

  • Efficient Marginal Likelihood Optimization in Blind Deconvolution
    A. Levin, Y. Weiss, F. Durand, and W. T. Freeman
    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2011

  • Evaluation of Image Features Using a Photorealistic Virtual World
    Biliana Kaneva, Antonio Torralba, William Freeman
    IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011

  • Diffuse Reflectance Imaging with Astronomical Applications
    Sam Hasinoff, Anat Levin, Philip Goode and William T. Freeman
    IEEE Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011

  • Towards Longer Long-Range Motion Trajectories
    Michael Rubinstein, Ce Liu, William T. Freeman
    British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2012

  • Laser Speckle Photography for Surface Tampering Detection
    YiChang Shih, Abe Davis, Sam Hasinoff, Fredo Durand, William T. Freeman
    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2012

  • Annotation Propagation in Large Image Databases via Dense Image Correspondence
    Michael Rubinstein, Ce Liu, William T. Freeman
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), October 2012

  • Patch Complexity, Finite Pixel Correlations and Optimal Denoising
    Anat Levin, Boaz Nadler, Fredo Durand, William T. Freeman
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), October 2012

  • Accidental pinhole and pinspeck cameras: revealing the scene outside the picture
    Antonio Torralba and William T. Freeman
    IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2012

  • Shapecollage: Occlusion-Aware, Example-Based Shape Interpretation
    Forrester Cole, Phillip Isola, William T. Freeman, Fredo Durand, Edward Adelson
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), October 2012