Bedrich Benes (born BedÃ
Âich BeneÃ
¡ 10 November 1967) is a Czech-American computer scientist and a researcher in computer graphics.
Academic positions
He is a professor and associate head of computer science at Purdue University. He was a member of numerous program committees of various conferences, including ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics and he was a papers chair of Eurographics 2017. Dr. Benes is editor-in-chief of Graphical Models journal and he was editor-in-chief of Computer Graphics Forum (2018âÂÂ2021). 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, scientific visualization, and software optimizations in digital manufacturing.
Education
Benes received his Ph.D. in 1998 from Czech Technical University where he studied computer science and computer graphics and his M.S. degree in 1991 from the same institution in the same fields.
Honors and awards
Books
- JiÃ
ÂÃÂ Ã
½Ã¡ra, BedÃ
Âich BeneÃ
¡, JiÃ
ÂàSochor, Petr Felkel (1998) "ModernàpoÃÂÃÂtaÃÂová 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
- Lee, J. J., Li, B., & Benes, B. (2024). Latent L-Systems: Transformer-Based Tree Generator. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 43(1).
- Li, B., Klein, J., Michels, D. L., Pirk, S., Benes, B., & Palubicki, W. (2023). Rhizomorph: The Coordinated Function of Shoots and Roots. ACM Transaction on Graphics, 42(4).
- Zhou, X., Li, B., Benes, B., Fei, S., & Pirk, S. (2023). DeepTree: Modeling Trees with Situated Latents. IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, 01, 1âÂÂ14.
- Niese, T., Pirk, S., Albrecht, M., Benes, B., & Deussen, O. (2022). Procedural Urban Forestry. ACM Transaction on Graphics, 41(2).
- Li, B., KaÃ
ÂuÃ
¼ny, J., Klein, J., Michels, D. L., PaÃ
Âubicki, W., Benes, B., & Pirk, S. (2021). Learning to Reconstruct Botanical Trees from Single Images. ACM Transaction on Graphics, 40(6), 1âÂÂ15.
- 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)
- 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 Journal
- 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 Graphics
- 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), 3717-3724
- 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)
- Soren Pirk, OndÃ
Âej Ã
 Ã
¥áva, 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 Graphics
- OndÃ
Âej Ã
 Ã
¥áva, Juraj VanÃÂk, BedÃ
Âich BeneÃ
¡, Nathan Carr and RadomÃÂr MÃÂch (2012), "Stress relief: improving structural strength of 3D printable objects", in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 31(4)
- Carlos A Vanegas, Daniel G. Aliaga, Bedrich Benes (2010), "Building reconstruction using manhattan-world grammars" IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- OndÃ
Âej Ã
 Ã
¥áva, BedÃ
Âich BeneÃ
¡, RadomÃÂr MÃÂch, Daniel G. Aliaga, and Peter KriÃ
¡tof (2010), "Inverse Procedural Modeling by Automatic Generation of L-systems" in Computer Graphics Forum
- Peter KriÃ
¡tof, BedÃ
Âich BeneÃ
¡, Jan KÃ
Âivánek and OndÃ
Âej Ã
 Ã
¥áva (2009), "Hydraulic erosion using smoothed particle hydrodynamics", in Computer Graphics Forum
- Christopher Hartman and Bedrich Benes (2006), "Autonomous Boids" in Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
- Bedrich Benes and Rafael Forsbach (2001), "Layered data representation for visual simulation of terrain erosion", in Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (IEEE)
References
External links
In the news