All Publications


  • Computer vision for computer graphics
    I. Carlbom (course organizer) and W. Freeman, G. Klinker, W. Lorensen, R. Szeliski, D. Terzopoulos, and K. Waters
    SIGGRAPH ’94 and ’95 course notes

  • Bayesian method for recovering surface and illuminant properties from photosensor responses
    D. H. Brainard and W. T. Freeman
    Human Vision, Visual Processing and Digital Display V, SPIE Proceedings Series, vol. 2179, 1994

  • Demonstration of an interactive environment for collaboration and learning
    C. Rich, R. C. Waters, C. Strohecker, Y. Schabes, W. T. Freeman, M. C. Torrance, A. R. Golding, and M. Roth
    IEEE Computer, Vol. 27, No. 12, Dec. 1994

  • The generic viewpoint assumption in a framework for visual perception
    W. T. Freeman
    Nature, vol. 368, p. 542 – 545, April 7, 1994

  • Exploiting the generic view assumption to estimate scene parameters
    W. T. Freeman
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Berlin, Germany, 1993

  • Building and using catalogs of grey-level junctions
    E. H. Adelson, P. Sinha, and W. T. Freeman
    Proc. 15th European Conference on Visual Perception, Edinburgh, Scotland. August, 1993

  • Steerable Filters and Local Analysis of Image Structure
    W. T. Freeman
    Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992

  • Shiftable Multi-Scale Transforms
    E. P. Simoncelli, W. T. Freeman, E. H. Adelson and D. J. Heeger
    IEEE Trans. Information Theory, Special Issue on Wavelets. Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 587-607, March 1992

  • The design and use of steerable filters
    W. T. Freeman and E. H. Adelson
    IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 891 – 906, September, 1991

  • Motion without movement
    W. T. Freeman, E. H. Adelson, and D. J. Heeger
    ACM Computer Graphics, vol. 25, no. 4, (SIGGRAPH ’91), pp. 27 – 30, July, 1991

  • Steerable filters for early vision, image analysis, and wavelet decomposition
    W. T. Freeman and E. H. Adelson
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Osaka, Japan, 1990

    Helmholtz Prize–test-of-time award winner.


  • Pyramids and multiscale representations
    E. H. Adelson, E. P. Simoncelli, and W. T. Freeman
    Proc. 13th European Conference on Visual Perception, Paris, 1990

  • A neural network for image noise removal
    J. G. Chen, Q. Tian, and W. T. Freeman
    1st National Conference on Neural Networks and their Applications, Beijing, 1990

    (in Chinese)


  • Applications of neural networks in image processing
    W. T. Freeman, J. G. Chen, and Q. Tian
    Automation Soc. of China Symp. on Neural Networks, pp. 46 – 55, Beijing, 1989

    (in Chinese)


  • Steerable filters
    W. T. Freeman and E. H. Adelson
    OSA Topical Meeting on Image Understanding and Machine Vision, Technical Digest Series Volume 14, June, 1989

  • Image processing to remove grain from photographs
    W. T. Freeman
    Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers 42nd Annual Conference, pp. 457 – 460, May, 1989

  • Computer Image Processing of STEM Images of Tobacco Mosaic Virus
    E. J. Kirkland, W. T. Freeman, M. Ohtsuki, M. S. Isaacson, and B. S. Siegal
    Ultramicroscopy 6, 367-76 (1981)

  • Deep Radio Occultations and ‘Evolute Flashes’: Their Characteristics and Utility for Planetary Studies
    V. R. Eschleman, G. L. Tyler and W. T. Freeman
    Icarus 37, 612-26 (1979)