Herbert Freeman

Contributor to the field of automatic label placement, computer graphics, and machine vision, Freeman published numerous works on geometric patterns from '61 and co-founded, with Azriel Rosenfeld of the University of Maryland, the Journal of Computer Graphics and Image Processing in '70. Later it changed its name to Computer Graphics, Vision, and Image Processing Journal, and with the expansion of the industry, the journal was split into two in the 1990s.

Freeman explained a clear distinction between computer science and computer engineering and described his involvement in map data processing. In the early 1980s he succeeded in developing an automatic labeling system for map data, a highly complex process for computers.

Freeman has served as president of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. He has also served as director of the Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity at Rutgers. He has additionally served as president of MapText, Inc., a firm he founded to commercialize software for the automatic labeling of maps.