Bedrich Benes (born November 10, 1967) is a computer scientist and a researcher in

computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great de ...

Academic positions

He is a professor of

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and mone ...

. He was a member of numerous program committees of various conferences, including

ACM SIGGRAPH ACM SIGGRAPH is the international Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques based in New York. It was founded in 1969 by Andy van Dam (its direct predecessor, ACM SICGRAPH was fo ...

and

Eurographics Eurographics is a Europe-wide professional computer graphics association. The association supports its members in advancing the state of the art in computer graphics and related fields such as multimedia, scientific visualization and human–compu ...

and he was a papers chair of

2017. Dr. Benes is editor-in-chief of

Graphical Models ''Graphical Models'' is an academic journal in computer graphics and geometry processing publisher by Elsevier. , its editor-in-chief is Jorg Peters of the University of Florida. History This journal has gone through multiple names. Founded in 1 ...

journal and he was editor-in-chief of ''Computer Graphics Forum'' (2018-2021). He is associate editor of ''Computers & Graphics''., ''IEEE Transactions on Games'', and ''In Silico Plants''. He worked at Purdue Computer Graphics Technology from 2005-2021, where he held a named professorship (George W. McNelly Professor of Technology in 2019-2021). He is known for his work in geometric modeling,

procedural modeling Procedural modeling is an umbrella term for a number of techniques in computer graphics to create 3D models and textures from sets of rules. L-Systems, fractals, and generative modeling are procedural modeling techniques since they apply algorit ...

scientific visualization Scientific visualization ( also spelled scientific visualisation) is an interdisciplinary branch of science concerned with the visualization of scientific phenomena. Michael Friendly (2008)"Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, s ...

, and software optimizations in

digital manufacturing Digital manufacturing is an integrated approach to manufacturing that is centered around a computer system. The transition to digital manufacturing has become more popular with the rise in the quantity and quality of computer systems in manufacturin ...

Education

Benes received his

Ph.D A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

. in 1998 from

Czech Technical University Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU, cs, České vysoké učení technické v Praze, ČVUT) is one of the largest universities in the Czech Republic with 8 faculties, and is one of the oldest institutes of technology in Central Europe. It ...

where he studied

and

and his M.S. degree in 1991 from the same institution in the same fields.

Honors and awards

*2022

Fello

*2020

Elsevier Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as '' The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', ...

Computers & Graphics Associate Editor of the Year 2020 *2019 - 2022

George W. McNelly Professor of Technology *2019 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Senior Member *2018-2021 Computer Graphics Forum Editor in Chief *2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member *2017 Eurographics Annual Conference - honorable mention from the Best Papers Committee for the paper " Interactive Modeling and Authoring of Climbing Plants" *2017 Eurographics Annual Conference Papers Chair *2012

Outstanding Award in Discovery *2011

Faculty Scholar *2011

Outstanding Award in Discovery *2009

Early Faculty Discovery Award *2005 Outstanding faculty award in discovery and technical development (Premio Rómulo Garza) of

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and Mixed-sex education, coeducational private ...

Books

*Jiri Zara, Bedrich Benes, Jiri Sochor, Petr Felkel (1998) "Moderní počítačová grafika" (Computer press) *George Bebis, Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Song Wang, Kim Kyungnam, Bedrich Benes, Stephen DiVerdi, Kenneth Moreland, Chiang Yi-Jen, Christoph Borst and Jiang Ming editors (2006) "Advances in Visual Computing: 7th International Symposium", Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Selected works

*Guo, J., Jiang, H., Benes, B., Deussen, O., Zhang, X., Lischinski, D., & Huang, H. (2020). Inverse Procedural Modeling of Branching Structures by Inferring L-Systems. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG
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*Benes, B., Guan, K., Lang, M., Long, S. P., Lynch, J. P., Marshall‐Colón, A., Bin, P., Schnable, J., Sweetlove, L.J., & Turk, M. J. (2020). Multiscale computational models can guide experimentation and targeted measurements for crop improvement. The Plant Journa
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*Graciano, A., Rueda-Ruiz, A. J., Pospisil, A., Bittner, J., & Benes, B. (2020). QuadStack: An Efficient Representation and Direct Rendering of Layered Datasets. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphic
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*Kang, H., Li, H., Zhang, J., Lu, X., & Benes, B. (2018). Flycam: Multitouch gesture controlled drone gimbal photography. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(4), 3717-372
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*Hädrich, T., Benes, B., Deussen, O., and Pirk, S (2017) Interactive Modeling and Authoring of Climbing Plants in Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics 2017 - honorable mention from the Best Papers Committee) *Gen Nishida, Ignacio Garcia-Dorado, Daniel G Aliaga, Bedrich Benes and Adrien Bousseau (2016) "Interactive sketching of urban procedural models" in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG
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*Soren Pirk, Ondrej Stava, Julian Kratt, Michel Abdul Massih Said, Boris Neubert, Radomir Mech, Bedrich Benes and Oliver Deussen (2012), "Plastic trees: interactive self-adapting botanical tree models" in ACM Transactions on Graphic
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*Ondrej Stava, Juraj Vanek, Bedrich Benes, Nathan Carr and Radomir Mech (2012), "Stress relief: improving structural strength of 3D printable objects", in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 31(4
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*Carlos A Vanegas, Daniel G Aliaga, Bedrich Benes (2010), "Building reconstruction using manhattan-world grammars" IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
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*Ondrej Stava, Bedrich Benes, Radomir Mech, Daniel G Aliaga, and Peter Kristof (2010), "Inverse Procedural Modeling by Automatic Generation of L-systems" in Computer Graphics Foru
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*Peter Kristof, Bedrich Benes, Jan Krivanek and Ondrej Stava (2009), "Hydraulic erosion using smoothed particle hydrodynamics", in Computer Graphics Foru
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*Christopher Hartman and Bedrich Benes (2006), "Autonomous Boids" in Computer Animation and Virtual World
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*Bedrich Benes and Rafael Forsbach (2001), "Layered data representation for visual simulation of terrain erosion", in Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (IEEE)
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In the news

Crop Modeling Project Awarded $5M
(2019)

(2018) *[https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2018/Q3/from-terminator-to-household-tech-researchers-work-to-add-function-to-3d-printed-objects.html From Terminator to household tech: Researchers work to add function to 3D-printed objects] (2018)
New Automation Revolutionizes 120 year old grading process
Purdue News (2017)
Teaching machines to pinpoint earthquake damage
Purdue News (2017)

Purdue News (2014)
3-D printing software helps designers avoid rookie mistakes
Scientific American (2012)
Study maps greenhouse gas emissions to building, street level for U.S. cities
ASU News (2012)
Seeing a City's CO2 Emissions, Block by Block in
Popular Mechanics (2012)

References

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