2026 Benjamin B. Kimia: 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	50	5601	5443	2558	2470	165	10564

Benjamin B. Kimia publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin B. Kimia sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 165 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Benjamin B. Kimia D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin B. Kimia sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Benjamin B. Kimia is affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research spans significant contributions in the fields of computer science and engineering, with a strong focus on computer vision and pattern recognition. The body of work includes 43 publications in computer science and 16 in engineering.

Their subfields of study encompass:

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Aerospace Engineering
Signal Processing
Computational Theory and Mathematics

Key research topics covered in their work include:

Advanced Vision and Imaging
Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Data Management and Algorithms
Graph Theory and Algorithms
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques

Benjamin B. Kimia's recent publications include:

"Shape-Biased Domain Generalization via Shock Graph Embeddings," 2021, presented at the 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
"Camera Pose Estimation Using First-Order Curve Differential Geometry," 2020, published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
"Trifocal Relative Pose From Lines at Points," 2022, in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
"On the Instability of Relative Pose Estimation and RANSAC's Role," 2022, at the 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
"Discriminating between sleep and exercise-induced fatigue using computer vision and behavioral genetics," 2020, published in Journal of Neurogenetics

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Benjamin B. Kimia has collaborated with several researchers over multiple projects. Frequent co-authors include:

Cole Foster
Hongyi Fan
Elias Tsigaridas
Joe Kileel
Edgar Chávez

Best Publications

Recognition of shapes by editing their shock graphs

T.B. Sebastian;P.N. Klein;B.B. Kimia

979
Citations
Shapes, shocks, and deformations I: the components of two-dimensional shape and the reaction-diffusion space

Benjamin B. Kimia;Allen R. Tannenbaum;Steven W. Zucker

867
Citations
On aligning curves

T.B. Sebastian;P.N. Klein;B.B. Kimia

510
Citations
Recognition of Shapes by Editing Shock Graphs

Thomas B. Sebastian;Philip N. Klein;Benjamin B. Kimia;Providence Ri

435
Citations
Symmetry-Based Indexing of Image Databases

Daniel Sharvit;Jacky Chan;Hüseyin Tek;Benjamin B. Kimia

416
Citations
3D object recognition using shape similiarity-based aspect graph

C.M. Cyr;B.B. Kimia

357
Citations
Parts of visual form: computational aspects

K. Siddiqi;B.B. Kimia

338
Citations
On the evolution of curves via a function of curvature. I. The classical case

Benjamin B Kimia;Allen Tannenbaum;Allen Tannenbaum;Steven W Zucker

267
Citations
Toward a computational theory of shape: an overview

B. B. Kimia;A. Tannenbaum;S. W. Zucker

266
Citations
A shock grammar for recognition

K. Siddiqi;B.B. Kimia

233
Citations
On solving 2D and 3D puzzles using curve matching

Weixin Kong;B.B. Kimia

230
Citations
A formal classification of 3D medial axis points and their local geometry

P. Giblin;B.B. Kimia

216
Citations
Euler Spiral for Shape Completion

Benjamin B. Kimia;Ilana Frankel;Ana-Maria Popescu

211
Citations
Geometric Heat Equation and Nonlinear Diffusion of Shapes and Images

Benjamin B. Kimia;Kaleem Siddiqi

193
Citations
Curves vs. skeletons in object recognition

Thomas B. Sebastian;Benjamin B. Kimia

185
Citations
Deblurring Gaussian Blur

Robert A. Hummel;B. Kimia;Steven W. Zucker

180
Citations
A Similarity-Based Aspect-Graph Approach to 3D Object Recognition

Christopher M. Cyr;Benjamin B. Kimia

175
Citations
Image segmentation by reaction-diffusion bubbles

H. Tek;B.B. Kimia

172
Citations
IMPLEMENTING CONTINUOUS-SCALE MORPHOLOGY VIA CURVE EVOLUTION

Guillermo Sapiro;Ron Kimmel;Doron Shaked;Benjamin B Kimia

171
Citations
Segmentation of carpal bones from CT images using skeletally coupled deformable models.

Thomas B. Sebastian;Hüseyin Tek;Joseph J. Crisco;Benjamin B. Kimia

171
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven W. Zucker Yale University

Allen Tannenbaum Stony Brook University

Kaleem Siddiqi McGill University

Joseph L. Mundy Brown University

Philip N. Klein Brown University

Joseph J. Crisco Brown University

Braden C. Fleming Brown University

Thomas Serre Brown University

Alfred M. Bruckstein Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Tomas Pajdla Czech Technical University in Prague

External Links

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