2026 Bedrich Benes: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	42	8385	8148	3592	3456	187	7476

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Bedrich Benes is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research spans several key areas within computer science, with a particular focus on computer graphics and related domains.

Their main field of study is computer science, with notable contributions in various subfields including:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Plant Science
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Environmental Engineering
Computational Mechanics

The primary topics addressed in their research work include:

Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Advanced Vision and Imaging
3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

Bedrich Benes has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications in:

ACM Transactions on Graphics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Computer Graphics Forum
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

The scientist's recent papers reflect a range of interdisciplinary interests, such as:

"Recognizing the emotional state of human and virtual instructors," 2020, Computers in Human Behavior
"Inverse Procedural Modeling of Branching Structures by Inferring L-Systems," 2020, ACM Transactions on Graphics
"Do Learners Recognize and Relate to the Emotions Displayed By Virtual Instructors?", 2021, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education
"The positivity principle: do positive instructors improve learning from video lectures?", 2021, Educational Technology Research and Development
"Systematic Review of Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction," 2022, Informatics

Collaborations form an integral part of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

Bosheng Li
Alejandra J. Magana
James C. Schnable
Mathieu Gaillard
Sören Pirk

Recognition includes the award of ACM Senior Member status in 2019.

Best Publications

Stress relief: improving structural strength of 3D printable objects

Ondrej Stava;Juraj Vanek;Bedrich Benes;Nathan Carr

363
Citations
A Survey on Procedural Modelling for Virtual Worlds

Ruben M. Smelik;Tim Tutenel;Rafael Bidarra;Bedrich Benes

363
Citations
Clever support: efficient support structure generation for digital fabrication

J. Vanek;J. A. G. Galicia;B. Benes

334
Citations
Quantification of fossil fuel CO2 emissions on the building/street scale for a large U.S. City

Kevin R. Gurney;Igor Razlivanov;Yang Song;Yuyu Zhou

305
Citations
A Review of Simulators with Haptic Devices for Medical Training

David Escobar-Castillejos;Julieta Noguez;Luis Neri;Alejandra Magana

263
Citations
Building reconstruction using manhattan-world grammars

Carlos A. Vanegas;Daniel G. Aliaga;Bedrich Benes

185
Citations
Interactive sketching of urban procedural models

Gen Nishida;Ignacio Garcia-Dorado;Daniel G. Aliaga;Bedrich Benes

183
Citations
Hydraulic Erosion Using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

P. Krištof;B. Beneš;J. Křivánek;O. Št'ava

182
Citations
Inverse Procedural Modelling of Trees

O. Stava;S. Pirk;J. Kratt;B. Chen

179
Citations
Connected fermat spirals for layered fabrication

Haisen Zhao;Fanglin Gu;Qi-Xing Huang;Jorge Garcia

177
Citations
Inverse design of urban procedural models

Carlos A. Vanegas;Ignacio Garcia-Dorado;Daniel G. Aliaga;Bedrich Benes

171
Citations
Terrain generation using procedural models based on hydrology

Jean-David Génevaux;Éric Galin;Eric Guérin;Adrien Peytavie

168
Citations
PackMerger: A 3D Print Volume Optimizer

J. Vanek;J. A. Garcia Galicia;B. Benes;R. Mźch

159
Citations
Layered Data Representation for Visual Simulation of Terrain Erosion

Bedrich Benes;Rafael Forsbach

158
Citations
Inverse Procedural Modeling by Automatic Generation of L‐systems

O. Št'ava;B. Beneš;R. Měch;D. G. Aliaga

158
Citations
Interactive terrain modeling using hydraulic erosion

Ondřej Št'ava;Bedřich Beneš;Matthew Brisbin;Jaroslav Křivánek

153
Citations
Interactive example-based terrain authoring with conditional generative adversarial networks

Éric Guérin;Julie Digne;Éric Galin;Adrien Peytavie

149
Citations
Interactive example-based urban layout synthesis

Daniel G. Aliaga;Carlos A. Vanegas;Bedrich Benes

148
Citations
Plastic trees: interactive self-adapting botanical tree models

Sören Pirk;Ondrej Stava;Julian Kratt;Michel Abdul Massih Said

144
Citations
Interactive design of urban spaces using geometrical and behavioral modeling

Carlos A. Vanegas;Daniel G. Aliaga;Bedrich Benes;Paul A. Waddell

144
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel G. Aliaga Purdue University West Lafayette

Oliver Deussen University of Konstanz

Marie-Paule Cani École Polytechnique

Baoquan Chen Peking University

Kevin R. Gurney Northern Arizona University

Jonathan P. Lynch Pennsylvania State University

Richard E. Mayer University of California, Santa Barbara

Paul Waddell University of California, Berkeley

Stephen P. Long University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Qixing Huang The University of Texas at Austin

External Links

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